16 Simple Ways to Celebrate Read Across America Day

Read Across America is coming! Get ready with these fun bookmarks. 

Making reading fun is worth giving up a little time for. Why? Once students love reading, becoming a lifelong reader becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. On that note...

Here's some fun things you can do for Read Across America Day.

• Make fun bookmarks. [See video]
• Read with finger lights.
• Have a Pajama Party - Wear your pJs and bring a pillow to make reading more relaxing all day.
• Dress up as your favorite book characters.
• Choose picture books to read aloud for every subject all day.
• Have older students choose books that have a character that they are like or would want to be like. Share the book and tell why or write about it.
• Make green eggs and ham.
• Have a book tasting in your class.
• Read with flashlights.
• Have a Read-a-Thon to raise money for books in your school or classroom or to raise money to give books to students in a needy school in your area.
• Try talking in rhyming words all day.
• Read Red Fish Blue Fish and make Jello fish bowls with blue jello and gummy fish.
• Get Goldfish [colors] crackers and graph the colors you get in a small package or a snack sized baggie.
• Write about what you would do if Thing 1 and Thing 2 came to your house.
• Have Crazy Hat Day or give students headbands with a basic hat to color and decorate into something unique that represents them.
• Read 5-10 Dr. Seuss books and rate them. Graph your class' results for most favorite and least favorite.

That should get you started. What other ideas do you have? Please share.