Just for fun, I’ve started creating monthly reading challenges for readers of all ages. Here's the one for December!
I started creating these reading challenges as a way to offer some examples of how we might challenge kids to read in authentic ways that center joy and fun. I hope they also help teachers and librarians build even stronger reading communities. It's been a fun project and it's been incredibly rewarding to see them being used in schools and libraries around the country (I haven't seen any international examples - yet!) All of that said, I haven't decided if I'm going to continue making them in 2025, but we'll see! Whatever I decide, all 2024 reading challenges will remain available at the link below.
In the meantime, as a reminder, back in January, I decided to create monthly "reading challenges" that:
You can download this resource, and all the other month's challenges, here.
Finally, I've gotten some questions about how I create these. I use a combination of the following tools to create the monthly book challenge (and the book related) coloring sheets I share. Each coloring sheet takes me between 4-10 hours to create. (I'm slow).
