Promotional+Tools

=**(1) Reading is...**=
 * Using Pages (IWORK 09), create posters of teachers posing with their favourite book, magazine, text form.
 * Would include a brief sentence or two about what reading means to them.
 * Will be posted throughout the school.

=**(2) A) [|Get Caught Reading - home]**= =**B) Get caught reading - families on film**=
 * Teachers/Librarian will present a student with a ballot every time they see the student reading a non-content based text form.
 * Ballot would provide student with a chance to win a prize to be drawn during the Literacy Fair or their very own Reading Is... poster.
 * Using a digital camera, students catch their family reading at home on camera and bring the footage back in to school, where it be collected and made into a montage video to show at the Literacy Fair. Encourage students to film their family reading anything, including newspapers, recipe books and labels.
 * For families that do not have digital cameras, still shots can be taken, scanned, and converted to JPEG format to be included in montage.
 * For families that don't own a camera, pictures can be drawn, scanned, and converted to JPEG format to be included in montage.

=**(3)** Favourite Reading Lists= Helpful sites: (1)[| International Reading Association (IRA)] (2) [|Ontario Library Association (OLA): Forest of Reading] (3) [|Love Reading 4 Schools (UK site)] (4) [|Children's Literature - Best Books Lists (University of Calgary site)]
 * Teachers/Librarian will post listings of their favourite book titles on a designated bulletin board.
 * Students can read these titles as part of promotion #2 or #4.

=**(4) Book Talks**=
 * Based upon the posted favourite reading lists, students read and discuss those books in a small (3 to 5 people) group setting using [|Book Talk Ideas].
 * Book Talks observed as exceptional will be invited to demonstrate this literacy technique at the Literacy Fair.
 * Student recommendations for read aloud titles will be considered based on these Book Talks.

=(5) Poem of the Day*=
 * Students sign up to read a poem of their choice on the school announcements.
 * Can be done alone or with a group.
 * Students take ownership as this is voluntary, signing themselves up and choosing what poems they will perform.

=(6) What are you reading? Bulletin Board*=
 * Students and staff will post titles of what they are currently reading on the bulletin board (can you different shapes and coloured paper).
 * Way to demonstrate that everyone is a reader.

=**(7) Like This? Try This! Bulletin Board***=
 * Recommendations - If you like this book, you will love...
 * Focus on what will the student read next as sometimes it is hard to decide because of the numerous options available.
 * Allows students to independently chose their next book.

=**(8) Posters**=
 * Using Pages (IWORK 09), will create posters depicting... (Come up with ideas at a later date.)
 * Having posters in different languages (Look at ESL/ESD student nationality/first language).
 * Any suggestions?

=(9) **Top Ten Reads poster**=
 * Create a top ten reads poster of the results of the top ten most frequently borrowed books from the school library.

=(10) **ESL/ESD Reading Pamphlet**=
 * Recruit a small group of English as a Second Language (ESL) and/or English as a Second Dialect (ESD) students to make a 'Top reading tips' leaflet for families in various community languages (e.g., Polish, Ojibwe, etc...). Alternatively, involve English-speaking children as well and set the group the task of creating a visual leaflet or family reading pack, which promotes reading through pictures, cartoons and uses a minimum of words.

=(11) [|Sing For Literacy Song]=
 * teach students this song to perform during fair.


 * ideas taken from video: [|Great Lesson Ideas - Primary English - Reading Community]