Kindergarten
Reading - Readers can read and then talk about a collection of related books in reading centers
Writing - All about books in science
Grade 1
Reading - Readers can read about science topics to become experts
Writing - Student Directed Learning projects – All Abouts
Grade 2
Reading - Readers become experts about series they love by looking closely at character relationships
Writing - Fairy tales
Grade 3
Reading - Revisiting non-fiction
Writing - Research writing with a focus on animal study
Grade 4
Reading - Social issues book club
Writing - Research project
Grade 5
Reading - Research. This can lead into historical fiction book clubs dealing with social studies topics
Writing - Poetry
Grade 6
Reading - Book clubs/social issues
Writing - SDL project/focusing on social issues
Grade 7
Reading - Analyzing poetic text
Writing - Creating poetic text
James patterson on how to get your child to readhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/opinion/patterson-kids-reading/index.html