This is the second of a series about summer activities you can share with your children. This one’s about reading.
Fractured Fairy Tales – Whether it’s The Princess and the Rutabaga or Big Blue Riding Hood, invite your students to turn familiar fairy tales upside down and inside out—and to have fun. This interactive tool gives students a choice of three fairy tales to read. They are then guided to choose a variety of changes, which they use to compose a fractured fairy tale to print off and illustrate. Useful for teaching point of view, setting, plot, as well as fairy tale conventions such as they lived happily ever after, this tool encourages students to use their imaginations and the writing process at the same time.
“Kid-Approved” Summer Reading Books – This is my list of fun books to read (or have read to you) Â suggested by kids with reading difficulties. They suggest them, and I add them. If so much as one kid doesn’t like a book that I’ve suggested here, I remove the book from this list!
Reading Probe Generator – More for Teachers who often need to make informal “probes” of their students’ reading, and this works great. You can analyze the reading level of stories that you or your children create, or paste in any story you want on a topic your kids will like, and it tells you the level.