February 2012
Discovering Literacy on the Western Edge
North Dakota Reading Month – Dickinson
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
1
Introduce Reading in
THURSDAY
2
What are you reading?
FRIDAY
3
Mark your way
the Badlands – Gushing
Post a sign outside your
through a good book!
with Great Ideas!
door to share what you and
Create a book mark.
SATURDAY
4
your students are reading.
5
12
19
6
Oil in the
Black gold day!
8
Color Day! Read
9 Feel the power of a
10
High Energy! Feel
Badlands,
Wear Black, as you
a book that matches
good book, Read, From
the reading energy wear
Read Oil by
dig for a good
your shirt.
Oil to Gas by Shannon
yellow!
Christin Ditchfield
book!
13
14
Hard hats off to
Haul in a good
15
Map out a good
book. Bring your
book. Create a story
a hat.
favorite book to
map of your favorite
share.
book.
21
22
20
Drill Deep,
People in the
Crack open a
16 Light up your site.
17
Read with a flashlight!
Oil Spill, by Melvin
Don’t Spill! Read
23
Pull someone into a
24
A barrel of good
good book! Read
good book. Write a
books. Fill your book
Rig Worker by
while eating Cracker
book recommendation
basket with good fit
William Thomas
Jacks.
to a friend.
books!
28 Use your
29 Celebrate
stamina! Read for
resources wisely!
Success! Have a
more than 20
Read The Lorax by
book talk party.
minutes!
Dr. Suess
Show your
18
Berger
Badlands: Read Oil
27
11
Knudsen.
a good book. Wear
into a good book!
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7
25
Dear Teachers,
North Dakota has designated February as North Dakota Reading
Month. The theme for 2012 is Discovering Literacy on the Western
Edge. We have compiled a few ideas to get students excited about
reading for the month of February.
We ask that classrooms decorate according to the theme, which is the
theme of the North Dakota Reading Conference to be held in Dickinson
during the month of April.
Attached is a calendar
of activities that are
centered around our
theme. These activities
include books about oil,
the people who work in the
oil industry, and the
conservation of our natural
resources. We are excited
to share these activities
with you! Happy reading!
Energy Related Books
Save the Earth Books
Oil, Gas, and Coal (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
It's Earth Day! (Little Critter) by Mercer Mayer
Solar Power (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
Earth Day: An Alphabet Book by Gary Kowalski and Rocco Baviera
Ethanol and Other New Fuels (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day (I Can Read Book 1) by Jane O'connor and
Robin Preiss Glasser
Nuclear Power (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
Water Power (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
Wind Power (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
Water Power (Energy for Today) by Tea Benduhn
Biscuit's Earth Day Celebration by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and David T. Wenzel
The EARTH Book by Todd Parr
The Earth and I by Frank Asch
The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
Oil Rig Roughneck (Cool Careers (Gareth Stevens)) by Geoffrey M. Horn
by Alison Inches and Pete Whitehead
Oil Rig Worker (Benchmark Rockets) by William Thomas
Earth Day (First Step Nonfiction) by Robin Nelson
Oil Rig Workers: Life Drilling for Oil (Extreme Careers) by Linda Bickerstaff and
Katherine White
Dear Children Of The Earth by Schim Schimmel
Gaston Drills an Offshore Oil Well (Gaston Series) by James Rice
Children of the Earth... Remember by Schim Schimmel
The Discoverer Enterprise: World's Largest Offshore Drilling Rig (Reading Power: Arthur Turns Green (Arthur Adventure Series) by Marc Brown
Record-Breaking Structures) by Mark Thomas
Energy (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) by Alexandra Fix
Oil and Gas (Rocks, Minerals, and Resources) by John Paul Zronik
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Go Green) by Helen Lanz
Oil (True Books: Natural Resources) by Christin Ditchfield
Recycle, Reduce, Reuse: Level 2 (Mathematics Readers) by Suzanne Barchers
Using Coal, Oil, and Gas (Exploring Earth's Resources) by Sharon Katz Cooper
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain F... by Lynne Cherry
How Did That Get to My House? Natural Gas (Community Connections) by Nancy
The Lorax (Classic Seuss) by Dr. Seuss
Robinson Masters
Oil Spill! (Let's-Read-and-Find... Science 2) by Melvin Berger and Paul Mirocha
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth (Citize... by Rochelle Strauss
Oil Spill!: Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico by Elaine Landau
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
What's So Bad About Gasoline?: Fossil Fuels and What They Do
(Let's-Read-and-Find... Science 2) by Anne Rockwell and Paul Meisel
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle (Picture Puffins) by Chief
Seattle
Oil and Natural Gas (Energy4me) by Society of Petroleum Engineers
Mother Earth/Father Sky by Jane Yolen and Jennifer Hewitson
Footprints on the Roof: Poems About the Earth by Marilyn Singer and Meilo So
Some books by the 2012
Conference Authors
Katie Wood Ray
Sneed Collard III
About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest
Writers
Animals Asleep
In Pictures and In Words: Teaching the Qualities of Good
Writing Through Illustration Study
1,000 Years Ago on Planet Earth
Teeth
Sneed B. Collard III's Most Fun Book Ever About Lizards
Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary
Classroom
Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in
the Writing Workshop
The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale
B is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet (Discover America State By
State. Alphabet Series)
George Ella Lyon
What You Know by Heart: How to Develop Curriculum for
Your Writing Workshop
The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts
(And They're All Hard Parts)
All the Water in the World
Where I'm From (Writers' & Young Writers' Series #2)
ReLeah Cossett Lent
The Pirate of Kindergarten (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
Literacy for Real: Reading, Thinking, and Learning in the
Content Areas (Language & Literacy Practitioners
Bookshelf)
Weaving the Rainbow
Who Came Down That Road?
Nelson Lauver
Engaging Adolescent Learners: A Guide for Content-Area
Teachers
Bob Kann
Literacy Learning Communities: A Guide for Creating
Sustainable Change in Secondary Schools
Cordelia Harvey: Civil War Angel (Badger Biographies Series)
Adolescents on the Edge: Stories and Lessons to
Transform Learning
Frank Lloyd Wright and His New American Architecture (Badger
Biographies Series)
Cindy Bentley: Spirit of a Champion (Badger Biographies Series)