Imagine your entire elementary school - every family! - reading the same chapter book - out loud, at home at the same time! That’s One School, One Book. Join 300 schools across the US and Canada in this shared community-building reading experience. Our program package includes:
- introductory documents to explain OSOB to your community
- handy ten-step How To guide to implement OSOB
- Sponsor's Letter to help you secure funds
- sample documents from our individual book packets
- including reading schedules, assembly scripts, Trivia Questions, and Principal's talking points
- podcast mp3 files of our reading aloud audio-tips
2011 Model School
Dr. Gerald B. Probe School has spread One School, One Book to 12 schools in Lethbridge, Alberta!
Read more here.
Why read aloud?
Children are happier and better adjusted when you read to them just 15 minutes a day.
Where are we now? See who’s doing OSOB »
Children in Wilson Elementary School (in Imperial, PA) re-create Sweetie Pie's birthday party - the closing scene in Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie. They brought the book to life eating pickles and drinking 'Dump Punch'.
Highlights
New Books for 2012 Added to One School, One Book Recommended Book List
Check out our recently added books: The Lemonade War (by Jacqueline Davies) - a great math read!; and The Enormous Egg (by Oliver Butterworth). Look for Mr. Popper's Penguins (by Richard and Florence Atwater) and Hate That Cat (by Sharon Creech) later in 2012...
The RTT Fall Newsletter is here!
You can download and read the new Read to Them Fall Newsletter, created by Jan Bates, here. If you want to offer your own submission to the RTT Newsletter, you can contact Jan Bates here. Share your own anecdotes from your school and your community's One School, One Book experience. Share photos, videos, and quotes from students, parent, and teachers.
Newest Books Added to One School, One Book Recommended Book List (2011)
Check out our recently added books: The Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane (by Kate DiCamillo); Island of the Blue Dolphins (by Scott O'Dell); Bud, Not Buddy (by Christopher Paul Curtis); In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (by Bette Bao Lord), The World According to Humphrey (by Betty G. Birney), My Side of the Mountain by (Jean Craighead George), and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (by C.S. Lewis)
Gurney Elementary School does Cricket in Times Square proud!
Gurney Elementary School in Chagrin Falls, Ohio recently read George Selden's A Cricket in Times Square. Check out all of their activities and enthusiasm - an assembly video, a daily interactive blog, podcasts of every chapter read by teachers and parents, personal videos of newstands and subways at Grand Central Station, even a 45 minute presentation by a local opera company! Be inspired and check it all out here.
Interactive OSOB Presentation on Prezi.com
Trying to explain One School, One Book to someone else? Check out the excellent interactive, web-accessible presentation designed by Kenny Moles, Title I Schools Improvement Co-ordinator in West Virginia. Moles has been busy recruiting districts in West Virginia - and this is his principal explanatory tool. Check it out here.
Learn more about OSOB
Here are two introductory videos to explain One School, One Book. Check 'em out - then use them to explain OSOB to the rest of your community - teachers, parents, sponsors.