Kids read books,
win prizes with Book Adventure
Book Adventure, a free Web-based reading motivation program for children in grades K-8, has teamed up with NEA's Read Across America to bring young readers a reading adventure that will have them reading across the country—without ever leaving their hometown!
Kids take multiple choice quizzes offline on books they've read, and earn points good toward prizes for their literary successes.
Here's what you need to do:
- Visit www.bookadventure.org to register. Kids can register to play at school or at home. Parents can register to approve prizes and monitor progress. Teachers can register to provide their class with fun, educational and interactive reading tools.
- Read! Browse the following titles related to our 50 states and the District of Columbia. Books in this special Read Across America Book Adventure list (Adobe Acrobat pdf file) have a quiz posted on the Book Adventure Web site.
- Take multiple choice quizzes at the Book Adventure Web site on the books read offline from the Read Across America Book Adventure book list. (Quizzes based on the classic works of Dr. Seuss are also available among the 6,000 other recommended titles.)
Earn points for each book read—good toward fun prizes!
Send comments to readacross@nea.org
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