Help us to grow the story of reading in Parkway

For our students to meet the Mission, Vision and Learning Principles of the Parkway School District we know that students must be curious, creative, and confident learners but we also know that they must have strong literacy skills both in and out of school. They must read not only for academic reasons but also for pleasure and they must have choice in their reading to pursue their personal interests. #ParkwayReads is designed to help celebrate and build a social culture around the love of reading and is meant to be a way for all members of the Parkway community (students, educators, parents, etc.) to share what you're reading regardless of the medium (traditional books, video, websites, etc.), the connections that you are making with those texts or even where you are doing your reading. Make recommendations online using the #ParkwayReads hashtag and celebrate reading in Parkway.

Ideas and resources to get started:

• Use the hashtag #ParkwayReads to highlight the reading lives of the Parkway community. Post to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with #ParkwayReads and #WhereIRead with pictures of the places that you do your reading. Whether it's at the pool, on vacation, on a plane, waiting for a practice to finish, in the backseat on a road trip or even just at home on the couch, help us celebrate reading in the Parkway community with #ParkwayReads.
  

• Parkway Summer Reading Lists - To get you started, we have generated the Parkway Summer Reading Lists comprised of high interest books broken up by grade level and meant to engage Parkway students in reading this summer and throughout the year. These lists provide students with the opportunity to connect with books and expand their reading lives.
• Accessing Parkway's eMedia content
• How to Raise a Reader - 10 Tips for Getting Students Hooked on Books
• 9 Ways to Get Teens Reading - Practice ideas to help lure students to YA books
• Other opportunities include Scholastic, Barnes and Noble and Reading Rockets
• Scholastic Reading Resources: information on building fluency, comprehensions, motivations, vocabulary, easy and advanced reading, and favorite books

Benefits of reading for pleasure:

• Crafting an individual reading life
• Pathway to a personal reading journey
• Making connections between stories and life events