Devote time during your last weeks of school to promote summer reading by inviting students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books and genres for others to explore during the summer months. Rather than a teacher-centered requirement, summer reading becomes a student-driven exploration with brochures such as "Beach Books" and "I Know What You Read Last Summer: Great Suspense Novels." The lesson can be customized, if desired, to promote independent reading at any time of the year. Create suggestions for reading over Winter holidays, such as a brochure titled "Books for the Snowbound," or on African American authors for Black History Month, such as a flyer on books that fit the theme "What's Civil About Civil Rights?" Teachers may adjust the requirements for the brochure writing assignment to more closely match the writing applications benchmarks. (author/ncl)

Career-technical teachers can promote reading by having students use the templates provided to share information about their reading plans. The interactive "printing press" available on this site could be used for quick, attractive publications on any topic. Students could use the tools here to write summaries, reviews, and advertisements for career-related texts. (sec)