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For Teachers & Librarians MrsP.com Announces National Literacy Partnerships to Promote Reading

Portland, Ore.—November 24, 2008—www.MrsP.com, a groundbreaking
children's entertainment website celebrating books and reading, announced
today a series of promotional partnerships with national literacy organizations,
including Everybody Wins! USA, TeachersFirst and the Association of American
Publishers. Each has officially endorsed the new site and will partner with Mrs. P
to help spread her message that "reading is cool." Read complete press release

Click here for lots of downloadable activities that correspond with our posters

There are so many ways that book lovers can participate in the Get Caught Reading campaign. Below are some ideas from teachers and librarians around the U.S. who wrote us with pictures and stories of their Get Caught Reading experiences.

We'd love to hear how you've gotten involved so we can share your ideas with others. Please use the form below:

Order posters of Get Caught Reading celebrities for display in your schools. Click here

Use Get Caught Reading artwork on signs, posters and other materials for your school or library. Click here to download artwork.

Dedicate a half hour each day to reading and call it "Get Caught Reading Time."

Take pictures of students and people in the neighborhood who were caught reading and post them on bulletin boards. Click here to download the logo for posters.

Set up a Get Caught Reading event in your community, and invite local radio and television personalities and other community figures to read aloud to children.

The principal from one school randomly visits students' homes and gives an award to those who are "caught reading!"

Set up a Get Caught Reading book discussion club which could meet after school or on weekends.

Set up a club where children and adults read the same book and compare their feelings on it.

Ask children to draw their own version of someone or something that "got caught reading," and post drawings on bulletin boards. One student in New Jersey got her picture displayed on a billboard!

One teacher gave her students disposable cameras and asked them to take pictures of other students who were "caught reading."

Below find a selection of activities to download that correspond to our Get Caught Reading Posters.

Dora the Explorer
A ton of Dora activities in PDF format

The Spouse Brothers
A PDF chat transcript with the Sprouse Brothers

John Lithgow
A podcast with John Lithgow about Mahalia Mouse

Audio clip from John Lithgow's book, Micawber

Lesson Plans for John Lithgow's book Remarkable Farkle McBride

Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew Activities in PDF format

More Nancy Drew Activities in PDF format

A Nancy Drew screensaver