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 * LitActions: Activity Ideas for World Read Aloud Day**


 * LitWorld’s WRAD activities**

On LitWorld’s website you will find several fun activities with corresponding books and poems for children of all ages! Schools and libraries can host events and participants can take part in these amazing and interactive activities!

These activities are designed to help get you started in your participation of World Read Aloud Day on March 9th, 2011! Reading aloud brings us together- brings meaning, enhanced understanding, and shared experiences to our words and our stories. We hope you find our recommendations useful as you plan your celebration! Take action to help make worldwide literacy a reality!

Children, teens, and adults can all participate in this inspiring pledge to read 774 million minutes in support of the 774 million people around the world who cannot read. Read as many minutes as you can and keep track on our LitWorld log sheets!
 * 1. Initiate a Read-a-thon!**

Every student brings in a dollar and a book of their own that they do not mind giving away. They then “sell” the books for each other, with the proceeds they raise donated to LitWorld!
 * 2. Book Swap!**

Get together with friends and family and go on realebooks.com. Create stories together and post the on our LitWorld online library so that children all over the world can have a book to read aloud.
 * 3. Digital Bookmaking Party**

Kids and adults alike can organize “reading parties” in which you read aloud to each other with a charge at the entrance, proceeds donated to LitWorld!
 * 4. Participate in a “reading party”**

Encourage students to dress as their favorite book characters, bring them book in, and read it aloud to the class or with partners, pledging that time to our goal!
 * 5. Go “undercover!”**

Initiate a read-a-thon, invite an author or actor to read to your students, coordinate across grade levels and have older students read aloud to younger students, volunteer your class to read aloud to someone who needs to hear a story (at a local hospital or senior center), complete LitWorld activities with your class!
 * 6. Ideas for teachers:**

Post your progress and spread the word on your Twitter or Facebook and make sure to tag or link LitWorld on your post! Facebook/litworld and/or twitter.com/litworldsays. For Twitter uses, make sure to use the hashtag#litworld
 * 7. Share with others!**