Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. It's aimed at teens, their parents, librarians, educators, booksellers and other concerned adults.
Teen Read Week 2008 will be celebrated at thousands of public and school libraries, classrooms, and bookstores across the country. Although teens realize the importance of reading, they have a huge menu of activities to choose from when deciding how to spend their free time, and reading gets lost in the shuffle. Reading skills get rusty when they are not used. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that over the last 20 years there have been only modest gains in reading achievement. And although there are many active literacy campaigns, very few efforts focus on teenagers.
YALSA is a nonprofit organization that depends on its members for support. By registering, you are letting (them) know that teen literacy is a concern and you are willing to do something about it! By registering, you are telling YALSA that this program is worthwhile, and (they) will continue to sponsor the week. (ALA Teen Read Week Website)
For more information about the literacy campaign and information on how to register your library branch, click on the following link:
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2008/index.cfm
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I am very excited for teen read week, and I hope we can come up with something fun to encourage teens to participate in the event. An idea I had was to hold a contest, for example the teens have to post a book review on the ALD teen website and each review would count as an entry for the contest. I don’t know if a contest like this would be possible, but it would promote reading for teen read week. We could offer a prize such as a gift certificate to Chipotle, or like the Twilight goodie bag that is being offered on the teen website right now. I also like Anna’s idea for a read-a-thon and since this event falls in October, its right in time for fall break for a lot of kids who may be looking for something to do. Since kids have to read books for their English classes anyway it would be nice if we could offer some incentive for them to share their thoughts on what they’re reading for school. Does anyone else have ideas for ways we can celebrate teen read week at ALD?
We are considering some kind of contest for the website, but have had limited success with the commenting contest in April and the Twilight Bag contest this month. We are up to 951 comments on the site, but teens seem to want to comment when, where, and why they want - not related to a contest of ours.
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