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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Afterschool and Summer Reading with LGBTQ Content
   Motivate your middle school reader with books that include LGBTQ characters.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Amazing Biographies: Writing About People Who Change the World
   After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   A Trip to the Museum: From Picture to Story
   Visit a museum or art gallery (either online or in person) with children and teens, helping them find inspiration for a story based on a piece of art that they particularly enjoy or relate to.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Batter Up! Telling Sports Stories With Trading Cards
   Summer is the time for baseball! Through the retelling of the 1941 baseball season, children will see two legendary players as characters and can create trading cards that highlight these players.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   Beguiling Billboards: Finding Inspiration along the Road
   For this activity, teens study "Pass It On" billboards created by The Foundation for a Better Life either online or on-the-go, and create an original billboard and inspirational phrase for a person of their choosing.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Books Will Take You There!
   While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Can Letters Tell a Story?
   Shake up children's summer reading by introducing them to new and fun formats for storytelling.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Can You Convince Me?
   Children learn how to make a convincing argument—an important skill in school and in life.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Celebrate Heroes
   Encourage children to spend a little time thinking and writing about just what makes a hero and who their personal heroes might be.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Comics and Graphic Novels
    Instead of creating traditional book reports or writing summaries, get "graphic" by creating a comic book or cartoon adaptation of the major scenes from the books.

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