Read Across America

NEA’s Read Across America will take place on Tuesday, March 2, 2021!

To help plan and prepare for a reading celebration, MEA has compiled resources to promote your NEA’s Read Across America events and activities.

Read Across America Day!

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Resources

Thank you for helping to spread the word about NEA’s Read Across America! We encourage you to promote Read Across America resources at nea.org/readacross on all your social media channels.  

The Read Across America website includes the digital Read Across America calendar, suggestions for diverse books, reading activities and events, reading tips for parents and guest readers, and booklists to help connect children and their families to diverse books, languages, and cultures and spread the joy of reading.

KEY LINKS

Photo was taken in 2019

Additional Resources

Zoom Virtual Backgrounds

Make your virtual Read Across America celebration special with custom backgrounds.

RAA Certificate of Achievement

Recognize participation in a Read Across event.

Read Across America Oath and Poem

Encourage the kids in your classroom to recite the following poem and let the oath inspire your students to become lifelong readers!

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Poem

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild,
To pick up a book and read with a child.
You’re never too busy, too cool, or too hot,
To pick up a book and share what you’ve got.

In schools and communities,
Let’s gather around,
Let’s pick up a book,
Let’s pass it around.

There are kids all around you,
Kids who will need
Someone to hug,
Someone to read.

Come join us March 2nd
Your own special way
And make this America’s
Read to Kids Day.

©Anita Merina

Oath

I promise to read
Each day and each night.
I know it’s the key
To growing up right.

I’ll read to myself,
I’ll read to a crowd.
It makes no difference
If silent or loud.

I’ll read at my desk,
At home and at school,
On my bean bag or bed,
By the fire or pool.

Each book that I read
Puts smarts in my head,
’Cause brains grow more thoughts
The more they are fed.

So I take this oath
To make reading my way
Of feeding my brain
What it needs every day.

By: Debra Angstead, Missouri-NEA NEA MEMBER

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