Recommended For Grades 6-8 Around the Town Reading can be part of errands or shopping around town.
Children can help cut coupons, find pictures of items needed, and write family shopping lists.
Older children can compare prices, and create their own personal list of items they use to check or add to the family list. Reading to others As a family or class, pledge to spend one evening a month reading books with children at a homeless shelter or transitional facility. Do it Yourself Students know that they will enjoy the books distributed on RIF day if they help choose them. By selecting two or three students to help choose books for each distribution, the students know that their opinions are valued, they may learn a bit about budgeting, and committee members get a better sense of the books middle schoolers enjoy. Book Review Ask students to study the reviewing styles of movie critics in the newspaper and imitate their styles in a review of their own, using a favorite book instead of movie.