wacky reading calendars

Wacky Reading Calendars

by Carolyn Vibbert , Elementary Librarian & NBCT

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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



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



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



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 about trains.

Take off your socks

and read a book.

May



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



Read about the

moon.

Read “The Cow

Loves Cookies”

by Karma Wilson.


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



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



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



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



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 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



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



Image Credits All images are from OpenClipart.com downloaded between December 28, 2013 and January 4, 2014. Images are available for unlimited commercial use.

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Thank You! I hope you have found these quirky reading calendars useful for your library or classroom. If they have value to you and you’d like to express your appreciation of my time there are Donations available for purchase at my TeachersPayTeachers Store. You pay only as much as this product is worth to you!

Carolyn, NBCT & Elementary Librarian

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