 
Create a memorable reading event for your class with these great ideas from teachers who participated in past events!
Plus, build the excitement by incorporating Read For 2003 into your curriculum in the weeks leading up to December 6!
Planning Your Event | Cross-Curricular
Activities | Celebration Ideas!
Celebration Ideas!
Special Guests
One of the all-time best ways to make your Read For 2003 celebration
exciting is to invite guests to come and read with you. Go to Ideas
for Community Involvement for great ideas on who to invite and how
to get parents involved.
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Theme Parties
Reading Round Up
Have students dress up in western outfits and invite a guest to
read a western selection. One class decorated their room with hay
bales, along with a backdrop of barns and silos, and even a wooden
roping calf!
Favorite Characters
Have students come to your Read For 2003 celebration dressed as
their favorite book character.
Reading Camp Out
Hang Christmas mini-lights overhead, create a (pretend) campfire,
and have your students bring in a favorite blanket to read "under
the stars." Play a CD of night sounds, if available. Don't
forget the s'mores!
Pajama Party!
An all-time favorite! Have students bring in pajamas, a pillow,
blanket, and favorite stuffed animal to read their favorite bedtime
stories. After reading have a bedtime snack!
Oceans
Once class planned a beach party to go along with their Science
Oceans unit. Students brought in beach chairs, umbrellas, flip-flops,
and, of course, beach and ocean related books! To complete the mood,
an ocean waves CD played in the background as the students relaxed
and read. They ended the day with "ocean blue" Jell-O,
complete with swimming gummy fish inside!
Sandwiches
One class used sandwiches as their theme. Every student made a sandwich
board advertising the event, and the teacher handed out prizes for
categories like Most Creative, Most Informative, etc. After reading,
everyone enjoyed the sandwich of his or her choice. They ended the
day with ice cream sandwiches!
"Reading Is Cool"
Students read books with holiday or winter themes. Each one filled
out a "cool book" snowflake that read: "I read a
cool book. It was cool because…" They finished the day
with Popsicles!
Food from Other Cultures
See what other countries are participating on the Read For 2003
World Map. Read about foods from the different countries and plan
a special lunch for the day of the event.
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Games & Special Activities
Book Charades!
Everyone loves Charades! After you Read For 2003 seconds, play charades
using titles from books that your students have read.
Guessing Favorite Books
Have students bring in "clues" of what their favorite
book is. The class can try to guess what it is. (Example: a pair
of glasses with tape on the bridge might be a good clue for Harry
Potter.)
Book Exchange
Have students bring in any books from home that they no longer want
and let them swap and share.
SuperStar Poster Raffle
One librarian printed out all of the SuperStar posters in color
and displayed them in the school hallway. She numbered each poster
and after everyone was through reading, they had a raffle to see
who got to take the posters home.
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