Not only can your children earn free personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut for reading, the program offers so much more! For teachers - and yes, home educators are welcome! - there are tools and ideas. For parents, there are fun project ideas.
In October, we get to access an online video story of Splat, narrated by the author, Jeff Kinney. Printable activities to go along with the story are also available.
http://www.bookitprogram.com/REDzone/100greatreadalouds.asp is a great list of the "Top 100 Great Read Aloud Books".
I am exited to have joined a teacher's club through Book-It! called "Teachers With Spark".
And as a parent who has been reading to my children since they were old enough to sit on my lap and reach for the pages, I also took a pledge at the Book It! site to read to my girls at least 20 minutes a day. Which is not hard to do...I have always read at least 2 books to them each day (each one gets to pick out a book).
I love the fact that Pizza Hut believes that "Parents: You are your child's first teacher." Their own graphic shows just how many hours children spend in a public school and the hours they spend outside the classroom. I believe that not only is a parent a child's first teacher, but that the parent continues as a very influential teacher until their children become adults. Then the "teaching" changes over to an "advisory" role.
Whether you homeschool or children or not, I hope that you are spending time reading to your child every day.
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