Spring into Reading

Family Literacy Night at my school gives teachers and students an evening opportunity to play and celebrate literacy. A rotation of the evening's activities were pictured on the placement style program. I picked my son up from school and brought him back with me. Sometimes he groans when we have errands to run or an event to attend--he's twelve going on seventeen. I'm sensitive to his budding independent spirit. Yesterday though when I told him we were driving straight back to my school because "the poets" were going to perform at Family Literacy Night, he said, "Yes!"

We  started the evening by touring the stations. My son's favorite, the Zombieland board game set up in Helen Philpot's classroom. There's some kind of magic that happens when teachers dawn Zombie makeup in order to play with kids. My favorite station prior to the finale was creating a book spine poem--really more of book-talk poem. I was thinking about highlighting the plot of John Green's Looking for Alaska,with this one  in order to get the book back into circulation in my classroom. Here's what I crafted: