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Wacky Reading Calendars
by Carolyn Vibbert , Elementary Librarian & NBCT
Risking-Failure.com
About this Product: For each month of the year a reading calendar includes daily challenges that can be completed in no particular order. Each month has 30 challenges to complete. They include reading specific books, genres, authors, or reading while doing quirky things: like sitting in an empty bathtub or reading a book backwards. There are no time requirements listed for the challenge. They are created strictly for fun and to encourage students to read things that might be new to them. The challenges were created with inspiration from obscure holiday lists and lists of author birthdays so the topics included often have a connection to things like “Take Your Pet to Work Day” or “Make a List Day.” You may wish to keep these available in your library or classroom for students to complete as they choose. Perhaps you would like to upload them to your school website so that parents can download them.
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Read a book
upside down
Read an entire cereal box.
Read a book with
a
.
Read “Three
Hens & a Peacock” by Lester Laminack.
Re-read a favorite
book.
Read about a strange plant.
Read a fortune cookie.
Read in a dark closet with a
flashlight.
Read about space.
Read an article
about a squirrel.
Read a mystery.
Read a How-To book.
Read an
article that
starts with
letter C.
Read a book with
your pajamas
on
Read five recipes.
Read “Let’s Do Nothing!’ by Tony Fucile.
Read with fake
glasses.
Read the funniest book you see on
the shelf.
Read in an empty bathtub.
Read “Ish” by Peter
H. Reynolds.
Read
with a list.
Read a poem about
chocolate cake.
Read a book about
opposites.
Read about
Read aloud to a family member.
Read an I Spy book.
Read “Those Darn
Squirrels” by Adam
Rubin.
Read “The Popcorn Book” by Tomie
dePaola.
Read the lyrics to a song.
Read a bk written in
2001.
January
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read assembly
.
Read a biography.
Read 10 riddles.
Listen to an audio
book.
Read Chapter 1 of a book by Laura
Ingalls Wilder.
Read about
Read a card.
Read “The Great Gracie
Chase” by Cynthia Rylant.
Read “Go to Sleep
” by Judy
Cox.
Read a grocery recipt.
Read a book with
a blue cover.
Read a book with
a .
Read a poem about love.
Read a book
under an open
umrella.
Read and eat a lollipop.
Read a
article about the
Winter Olympics.
Read a poem that
starts with
letter G.
Read “The Great Fuzz
Frenzy” by Janet Stevens.
Read “Tacky and the Winter Games” by Helen Lester.
Read a fairy tale.
Read while
eating
Read a book
Read a book by Judith Viorst.
Read a book
written in 2002.
Read an article about
weather.
Read “Chicks
and Salsa” by Aaron Reynolds.
Read a book by
Lynn Cherry.
Read a book
about a kid with a
weird name.
Read in the car.
Read while
wearing
socks.
February
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read while wearing a helmet.
Read a Steve Jenkins book.
Read about teeth.
Read a Caldecott
book.
Read a flower seed
packet.
Read on a tall stack of couch cushions.
Read about
Read a book with a green cover.
Read standing
up.
Read a book online.
Read about pie.
Read about
nurses or doctors.
Read about an invention.
Read directions
for a craft. Read an
old book.
Read upside down.
Read a book
written in 2003.
Read a Kate
DiCamillo book.
Read the Sunday Funnies.
Read while
wearing slippers.
Read about Johnny
Read “Diary of a Worm” illustrated by Harry
Bliss.
Read the ”Hello
Goodbye Window.”
Read about
.
Read into a
Read and then eat
a popscicle.
Read a book by
London.
Read a waffle recipe.
Alternate jogging
and reading for 20
minutes.
Read a chapter of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
March
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read a book
written in 2004.
Read “Dig, Wait,
Listen” by April Pulley Sayre.
Read a road map.
Read the labels of 5 items in
your kitchen.
Read about a planet.
Read poems by
Shel
Read outside.
Read poems by
Jack Prelutsky.
Read a book
about an .
Read a book of jokes.
Read “I’ll Read to You, You Read to Me, Fairy
Tales”
Read while
sitting under a table.
Alternate reading a page with 10 jumping
jacks.
Read a poem about rain.
Read about
brothers or
sisters.
Read under the covers.
Read
poetry by Kenn Nesbitt.
Read about a holiday.
Read a book by Barbara
Park.
Read while
eating pretzels.
Read “Duck and Goose” by Tad Hills.
Read a book about twins.
Read a nonfiction
book about clouds.
Read “Animalia”
by Graeme Base.
Read a magazine.
Read poetry by Jon
Scieszka.
Read about
baseball.
Read a book with
a red cover.
Read a book
about a dragon.
Read Extra
Yarn by Mac
Barnett.
April
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read “Dex: the Heart
of a Hero” By Caralyn Buehner.
Read about
Cinco de Mayo.
Read a book
illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
Read a book with a baby.
Read about a
place you want to
visit.
Read Directions.
Read about a
.
Read “A Tree
Named Steve” by
Alan Zweibel.
Read about how to
compost.
Read a book with a purple cover.
Read a “Skippyjon
Jones” book by Judith
.
Read “Sideways Stories from
Wayside School”
Read in a blanket fort.
Read 10 nursery rhymes.
Read an
entry starting with “L”
Read street
signs and billboards.
Read on a swing.
Read a book about
Read bout Sally
Ride.
Read “Curious George”
Read a book
written in 2005.
Read an article
about a bird.
Read a graphic novel.
Read a How-To book.
Read “Frankie
Pickle and the
Closet of Doom”
Read a chocolate
chip cookie recipe.
Read the Sunday Funnies.
Read about trains.
Take off your socks
and read a book.
May
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read a book
about a lion.
Read captions
of pictures in the
.
Wear a hat and read.
Read a book about tennis.
Read while
wearing .
Read a fairy tale.
Read about an unusual
pet.
Read about
fireflies and then
catch some.
Read a Richard Scary book.
Read “I Will Never Not Ever
Eat a Tomato”
Read “Click Clack
Moo” by Doreen Cronin.
Read the skinniest book you can find.
Read the back or
dust jacket of 10 books.
Read “Rain Makes
” by Julian Scheer.
Read a book with a table
of contents.
Read a
article.
Read a book by Cynthia Rylant.
Read about
taking a vacation.
Read a poem that
starts with “R”
Read a book by the pool.
Read a book about
weather.
Read directions to learn a
new game.
Read “The Man Who Walked
Between the
Towers”
Read about fish.
Listen to an audio
book.
Read “Meteor”
by Patricia Polacco.
Read a book
written in 2006.
Read in a hammock.
Read while
sitting on steps.
Read a book with an orange
cover.
June
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read about the
moon.
Read “The Cow
Loves Cookies”
by Karma Wilson.
Read the Sunday Funnies.
Read while
wearing .
Read lyrics to
a country music song.
Read “Let’s Do Nothing” by Tony Fucile.
Read a
Bears book.
Read a book about
Day.
Read while
wearing a floppy hat.
Read about
Canada.
Read a book with no words.
Read a book about
swimming.
Read the lyrics to
the National Anthem.
Read a book with a white cover.
Read a postcard.
Read a book by Peggy Parish.
Do one situp after
reading each page.
Read a book about dogs.
Read an article about sun
safety.
Read sitting in a wagon.
Read “Amelia
and Eleanor Go for a
Ride.”
Read a book with
a lemonade
stand.
Read a poem about food.
Read a book
written in 2007.
Read Dr. Seuss’ “What Was I
Scared Of.”
Read “The Night
Before .”
Read “Snow White.”
Read a book by Patricia Polacco.
Read with your feet in a kiddie
pool.
Read a book at
the beach.
July
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read “The True
Story of the Three
Pigs.”
Turn all pages
with your left hand
while reading.
Read “Hey, Al”
by Arthur Yorinks.
Read about the
tooth fairy.
Read wearing
your favorite pajamas.
Read “Radio
Rescue” by Lynne Barasch.
Read about
camping.
Read upside down.
Read a book and then eat
a .
Read an “Olivia”
book by Ian
Falconer.
Read trail mix
recipes and then try one.
Read in a tent.
Read “Shortcut” by Donald
Crews.
Learn and share knock-knock jokes.
Read a book by Seymour Simon.
Read a book with a yellow cover.
Read a book with a mouse.
Read “Wilfred McDonald Gordon
.”
Read on a trip to
the grocery store.
Read about herb
gardens.
Read directions
for a board or
card game.
Read “ ”
by Don Freeman.
Read about Bessie
Coleman.
Read on a porch.
Read a Magic School
Bus book.
Read “ Makes a
Sandwich.”
Read a book
written in 2008.
Read about Ms. Vesuvius.
Read a book by
Gail Gibbons.
Read directions for flying
a kite.
August
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read a book
written in 2009.
Read “Courage”
by Bernard Waber.
Read in a pirate voice.
Read “Johnny
” by Steven Kellogg.
Read a book by Tomie
dePaola.
Read a book while
wearing glasses.
Do one push up after
reading each page.
Read a book with a bear
.
Read a book by Roald Dahl.
Read a Magic
Treehouse Book.
Read about
recycling.
Read
you trade with a friend.
Read a book on
your unmade
bed.
Read about bees.
Read “How I
Became a Pirate.”
Read a page of
the .
Read “Duke
Ellington” by
Andrea D. Pinkney.
Read a comic book.
Read a school
.
Make your bed and then read a book.
Read about
.
Read 10 poems by
Jack Prelutsky.
Read “Duck!
Rabbit!” by Amy Krouse
Rosenthal.
Listen to an audio
book.
Read directions or codes
for a video game.
Read “Curious George” by H. A.
Rey.
Read an “Elephant
and PIggie”
book by M. Willems.
Read a “Mercy
Watson” book by
Kate diCamillo.
September
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read a book by David
Shannon.
Read “Spookley
the Square
Pumpkin.”
Read recipes from a
cookbook.
Read a book by Brian P. Cleary.
Read about frogs.
.Read something you think
you’ll dislike.
Tell someone a ghost story.
Read “Is this a
House for Hermit Crab?”
Read 3 poems.
Read a book
written in 2010.
Read and turn the pages with
.
Read “ Chicken” by David
Ezra Stein.
Read “Punk
Farm” by Jarrett J.
.
Read something
silly.
.
Read a book with a black cover.
Read “My Friend Rabbit” by Eric
Rohmann.
Read “Officer Buckle and
Gloria” by Peggy
Rathman
Read while
sitting on a bench.
Read the words on one page of the
.
Read “Cinderella Skeleton”
by Robert
SanSouci
Read “Strega Nona” by
Tomie dePaola.
Read a biography
about Columbus.
Read a “Black
Lagoon” book
from Mike Thaler.
Read to another person.
Read “Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy
Buttons.”
Read aloud to yourself in the mirror.
October
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read about
.
Read a book by
Kevin Henkes.
Read “When
Dinosaurs Came with
.”
Read a book
someone
to you.
Read “Terrific” by Jon Agee.
Read in the car.
Read “Seven
Blind Mice” by Ed Young.
Read about
King Tut.
Read a book by Mary Jane Auch.
Read “Press
Here” by Herve Tullet.
Read to an older person.
Read “Chicken
Soup with Rice” by Maurice Sendak.
Read a book about nature.
Read a book by
Lois Ehlert.
Read a book with a brown cover.
Read as many
signs as you can.
Read a “Calvin & Hobbes” book by
Bill .
Read some of
your
meal recipes.
Read “Today I Feel Silly” by Jamie
Lee Curtis.
Read the Sunday Funnies.
Read about
icky.
Read about a musical
.
Read a book by
P. D. Eastman.
Read a book online.
Read “I am Not Going to get Up
Today” by Dr. Seuss.
Clean out your
and read a lot of labels.
Read a book
written in 2011.
Read “Let’s Go
for a Drive1” by M. Willems.
Read “10 Fat
Turkeys” by Tony Johnston.
Read a book that looks sad.
November
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
Read “The
Baby” by Jan Brett.
Read a crossword
puzzle.
Read “How Santa Got his Job” by Stephen Krensky.
Read a “Lunch Lady”
book by Jarrett J. Krosocka.
Read “Tony
Boloney” by Pam Munoz Ryan.
Read “Flotsam” by David Wiesner.
Read an article
about the Nobel Prize.
Read by .
Read an old book in the
bathtub.
Read “Night of the Ninjas” by Mary
Pope Osbourne.
Read a book by Mercer Mayer.
Read “My Lucky
Day” by Keiko
Kasza”
Read about an ancient
civilization.
Read as long as it takes to
eat a candy cane.
Read “The Mitten” by Jan Brett.
Read about the
Wright brothers.
Read about
monkeys.
Read “I Wanna
Iguana” by Karen
Kaufman Orloff.
Read a book
written in 2012.
Read a Helen Keller
.
Read about
Kwanzaa.
.
Read “Snow
Day” by Lester
Laminack.
Read a Top Ten in 2014 list.
Read 3 holiday songs.
Re-read your
favorite book
from the year.
Read “Not a Box” by Antoinette Portis.
Read a fairy tale.
December
Carolyn Vibbert, 2014
Complete as many of these reading challenges as you can. Cross off each box as you finish.
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Carolyn, NBCT & Elementary Librarian
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