1. Cool Reading Activities
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2. Check out the Dear America Books section of Scholastic.com.
Select a title and read an excerpt.
Do you want to read the rest of the book? Why or why not?

3. Visit Consumer Reports for Kids
and pick a report of your choice under ANY topic. Tell us what
you find out by writing a brief summary of the report’s findings.
Will this affect your future purchases?

4. It’s up to you! Choose any article to read (that we haven’t
discussed in class before) from the National Geographic World
Kids Archive. Write a summary to share with the class.

5. Visit Scholastic.com’s Article Archives!
Choose any category you wish and then a related article.
Teach the class something new! Write a paragraph to record
your findings!

6. Pick one article of your choice from...
and write a summary of it to share in class.

7. Visit www.whyfiles.org and select an article to read.
Write a summary to share with the class trying to teach
us something new. (Now that’s going to be hard!)

8. Visit Nutrition Explorations and read the Featured Recipe.
Does this recipe look easy for a kid to make? How does the
organization of this recipe make it easy to follow? Are you
going to try it out? If so, bring the class some snacks!

9. Visit the Time for Kids News Section.
Read an article of your choice. Try to teach the class
something we don’t already know. (Now that’s going to be
tough!) Write a paragraph summarizing your findings.

10. Read a News Scoop article of your choice. Write a paragraph
Check out...
Read a News Scoop article of your choice. Write a paragraph
explaining why you would or would not recommend this article
to a friend.

11. Hop, jump or skip on over to...
Read an article of your choice and enlighten the rest of us!
Write a paragraph summarizing the highlights of your article.

12. Read a Poem from Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic.
Be prepared to read this aloud for the class. Do you like
his poetry? Write a paragraph explaining why or why not.

13. Read the first chapter from
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
What happens? Write a summary of
the first chapter. You can read the rest
of the book online, a chapter at a time!

14. Read one of Aesop’s Fables.
Can you explain the lesson to
be learned? Who would benefit
from reading this fable?

15. Go on an adventure with Harold and the Purple Crayon.
Keep a log of your travels to share with the class! Give us a quiz
at the end to see if we remember everywhere you went!

16. Read the Species Spotlight for the month and take the quiz, too.
Visit the National Wildlife Federation’s “Keep the Wild Alive” section.
Read the Species Spotlight for the month and take the quiz, too.
Write a summary of your findings and convince us to “Keep
The Wild Alive!”

17. Visit the Educational Resources section of the
National Wildlife Federation site.
Choose one of the resources for to learn about
endangered species and their way of life.
Write a summary of your findings for the class. Convince
us that we should work to protect this endangered species.

18. Visit this amazing site and click on your favorite
subject. Then find a FEATURE ARTICLE you are
interested in. Read it, write a summary of your
findings and be ready to give a magical report to
the class. Good luck on your journey!

19. Scoring Rubric 4 3 2 1 Included copy of chosen piece
All questions in prompt are answered.
Answer is easy to read and understand and is very neat.
Most questions in prompt are answered.
Answer is easy to read and understand.
Some questions in prompt are answered.
Answer is a little hard to read and understand.
Copy of chosen piece not included
Small part of questions in prompt are answered.
Answer is hard to read and/or does not make sense. 4 3 2 1