[OPLINLIST] Association for Library Service to Children- Thinking Ahead for Teen Read Week

[Marsha McDevitt-Stredney]

Please excuse cross postings...

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Greetings:

 

Are you scrambling this September with back-to-school busyness?  There's
no need to worry about next month because the Kids! @ your library(r)
Campaign is one step ahead.  

 

Teen Read Week 2009 will be celebrated October 18th -24th.  Whether you
work with kids, teens, or kids, tweens, AND teens, the ALSC Public
Awareness Committee has some ideas for you!

 

Try out these ideas for Teen Read Week/Month:

 

1.      "When I was a kid...." Solicit your library's teens to flag
their former favorites from the children's collection.  Offer memory
suggestions and inspirational starters for the selection slips.

2.      I can read U can read-Recruit reliable tweens and teens as
reading buddies.  For a one-time event or for story hour assistance, big
kids can lend their talents to the younger set.   

3.      Design a character costume-Using the Teen Read Week theme of
"Read Beyond Reality," set up a center in your library for creating
costume sketches for favorite sci-fi or fantasy characters (imaginary or
from a book).  Include suggestions for costume materials using recycled
or re-purposed materials.  Display the artwork on a wall or in a gallery
space-the designs might inspire homemade costumes for October 31st.

For more tried and true library activities, look no further than the
Kids! @ your library(r) online tool kit at: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/initiatives/kidscampaign/librarya
ctivities.cfm

 

Best wishes,

Laura

 

Laura M. Schulte-Cooper

Program Officer, Communications

Association for Library Service to Children

a division of the American Library Association

50 E. Huron St.

Chicago, IL 60611

Phone: 312-280-2165; Fax: 312-280-5271

lschulte at ala.org

Check out ALSC at ALA Annual:   www.ala.org/alscevents

 

 
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