The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has resources for encouraging summer reading, including research on its benefit for young readers.

Jefferson County libraries offer summer reading programs for kids, teens, and adults with incentive prizes (free books, Kindles, etc.).  

The Denver Public Library has lots of reading programs, including one for summer reading in English and Spanish.

NYC libraries have a 2013 reading list with choices for all, aged pre-K through adult, plus  Spanish language titles.  

Check your local library to find out what summer reading programs they offer!

Website:  CSLP Summer Reading

Website:  Jefferson County Libraries

Website:  Denver Public Library

Website:  NYC Summer Reading

CLAS Talk member & CSU Professor Cindy O'Donnell-Allen is featured in the Sep. 26, 2012  issue of The Atlantic.  We encourage you to read her article, '"The Best Writing Teachers Are Writers Themselves."  [Atlantic] 

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2012 CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS

• CLAS receives affiliate awards

• Read incoming NCTE President, Ernest Morrell's keynote address

Become a leader in CLAS!!  We need your energy and ideas to help us continue to be an outstanding resource for language arts educators in the Rocky Mountain region.

By serving as a member of the CLAS executive board you can grow as an educator while contributing to the language arts community.

CLAS past-president and CSU professor Louann Reid was recently honored by the National Council of Teachers of English as recipient of the Rewey Belle Inglis Award.

The award, named for the first woman president of NCTE, is given annually to "a woman who has exhibited outstanding professional service relating to the role and image of women in the profession and in the Council."

Congratulations, Louann!