We two at Sprucewood Elementary created a Summer Reading Blog that was quite successful. The district set us up with a website that the children who had been reading during the summer could email us with what they had read. We asked them to then review the book and let us know how they liked it and if they might recommend it to a friend. The children who participated really had a great time and we sent them a book or a bookmark through the mail. We would copy their email review, add a picture of the book and post it on our blog. We also updated the blog once a week with new books that we thought they might be interested in reading. We hope to continue the blog through the school year, and into the summer months again next year. We even had one of our teachers submit a blog entry. Below is a sample of one of the student's posts.
If you would like to visit our blog the address is:
http://www.sprucewoodbookmark.blogspot.com/
Tom Trueheart has 6 older brothers, they are adventurers who go on dangerous quests in the Land of Stories. Tom stays at home with their mother. Tom's brother are famous for the exciting endings they discover for the tales the Story Bureau Assigns to them. But when his brothers fail to return from their adventures in time to celebrate Tom's twelfth birthday, a letter from the Story Bureau arrives....addressed to Tom. It is up to Tom to find out why his brothers haven't completed their missions. The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck is an adventure into the fairy tales we've all grown up hearing at bedtime. I liked it and I'm sure you will too.
-Sean-
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