This site has begun out of a love for our children, reading, teaching, and passing along the fun and discovery that comes from a great book and or story.
Our ultimate goal would be to help parents and educators foster a love of reading among their children and students.
So what exactly is the KidLit Book Hook?
This is a site to host an online interactive book club of sorts.
Our plan is to select a new piece of childrens literature every two weeks that we will all use to participate in the KidLit Book Read Along. You can see what we are currently reading over in the right hand side bar.
If you want to participate pull the book from your shelf, borrow it from the library or a friend, or if you feel so inclined buy a copy (preferably from a great local independent book store).
Take the two weeks to locate, read and read again (and in some cases again and again) the book to your child, classroom, grand babies or whomever would like to sit next to you and hear a great story told aloud.
When you are done with the book - take a moment to think of something that you and the listener can do to further expand upon the story. You can create a piece of art, sing a song, visit an exhibit, act out the story, make a boo themed snack or follow your imagination - the sky is the limit.
Come back here by the posting date and add a link to your blog post detailing what it is you did to enhance the experience of the book. Your post should include a link to that books read along post here at KidLit Book Hook, give a review of the book (if you like), suggest other books that may be similar in theme or style, and of course tell about what you did to expand on the book and help hook a young reader for life.
Then come back and click on all the participants links to see what others have done with the book.
We hope to create an amazing resource for parents and teachers to turn to for great ideas to help children become life long readers.
Do you have ideas or thoughts you want to share with us? Is there an amazing project online that we should check out? Do you have a great resource we should include in our links? Please contact us. This is a work in progress and we look forward to growing it in whatever direction it takes.
Thanks for coming along for the ride!
FIRST KidLit Book Hook READ ALONG TO BE ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER 1 - 2009
