Philippa Dowding's Blog - Posts Tagged "keep-them-reading"

This post is a list of free resources for everyone working hard to keep kids entertained, enlightened, engaged at home right now.

There are several excellent Canadian book sites for kids, which offer interesting, fun, educator-approved resources for parents and teachers.

Here are two that are completely free, with Teacher's Guides, author's websites, virtual readings and more. (I'm focusing on Canada here, but American publishers and in fact most children's publishers have a website with free resources for kids, so check them out too.)

Ontario Library Association, Forest of Reading.
Website: https://forestofreading.com/school-ag...

Check out the Forest of Reading program, 1-hour online author talks, resources, games, crosswords, author websites, ideas to engage with books and much more, all completely free from the Ontario Library Association.

The Canadian Children's Book Centre
Website: https://bookcentre.ca/news/canadian-b...

The CCBC has just launched the new Read Canadian at Home: Resources for Parents resource on their website. LOTS of authors are linked, with resources, games, videos, book talks and much more, and more authors are joining in every day.

I hope this helps you engage your young readers. We can't hold each other right now, but until we can, it might help to hold a book.