mom's the word;131806 wrote: I recently found out about this site and was searching through the tons and tons of ideas to encourage students to read this summer. I came across the Reading Pals idea. Our instructional facilitator communicated with the author that did the Reading Pals, we purchased books and Reading pals for our students . She gave us an outline and a 10 tips to creating summer fun handout for the parents so that we can conduct a "Summer Reading Fun" workshop for parents. What a surprise I found when I received a package of props to use to correspond with the 10 tips on creating fun this summer. The students and teachers are sooooooo excited we are bursting through the seams. It was almost like Christmas time.

Thanks to PTO today for connecting us with so much valuable information.

Very nice of you to come back and share. Thanks.

Hope you'll continue to offer your insight to the next crop of "newbies".

Tim

www.readwithease.org

What was the name of the company? I can't find it. It sounds like something we may want to do for Back-to-School.

Thanks for sharing. The folks on this site are generous about helping.

We always hear the "beginning" of the story (the problem, the need for information, the gaps) but not always the "end" (how did it turn out, was the event successfuly, did the suggestions help??)

It's really great when someone takes time to close the loop and share what happened or how our virtual team had impact.

Good luck with your program!

I recently found out about this site and was searching through the tons and tons of ideas to encourage students to read this summer. I came across the Reading Pals idea. Our instructional facilitator communicated with the author that did the Reading Pals, we purchased books and Reading pals for our students . She gave us an outline and a 10 tips to creating summer fun handout for the parents so that we can conduct a "Summer Reading Fun" workshop for parents. What a surprise I found when I received a package of props to use to correspond with the 10 tips on creating fun this summer. The students and teachers are sooooooo excited we are bursting through the seams. It was almost like Christmas time.

Thanks to PTO today for connecting us with so much valuable information.