More reading fun

Reading activities for everybody

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!

 An initiative of the National Education Association (NEA) and Youth Service America (YSA), Youth Leaders for Literacy is designed to help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related service projects. Grants are available up to $500.00.

 Major League Soccer (MLS) and the National Education Association (NEA) have launched a new literacy program that taps into the excitement of professional soccer and the star power of many of the League's top players to give reading a major kick. "Get a Kick Out of Reading/¡Lee y Marca un Golazo!" is a comprehensive, multicultural League-wide literacy program that aims to raise awareness about the critical importance of reading to children and their families, including the growing number of youth that are new to America and have limited English skills.

Winner of The Parents' Choice Award as the best TV show for kids 4-to-7, Between the Lions is the first series to offer educationally sound reading instruction that combines phonics and whole language. Between the Lions is sharing a selection of reading tips for parents and teachers, as well as book lists you can take to the library or the book store.

The Great American Family Read-In is a wonderful activity to get families to read across America, and anytime is a great time to start. Keep it up all year, and help your family "resolve to read" any way, every day!

Professor Kay E. Vandergrift, of Rutgers University's School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, has produced an extensive web site on literature for children and young adults. Her First Lines page is a fun way to test your knowledge of children's literature. Which well known book opens with, "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast." Do you know the answer? Test yourself!

Children everywhere yearn to see themselves in the stories they read. Find out how to select good books, build a library, and more in our Multiculturalism and Children's Literature section. Includes author interviews!

Parents want and need information about what's happening in their child's classroom and how they can help. The information and resources presented in NEA's Help for Parents can help meet that need.