Classroom Adventure Program
Mary Pope Osborne's Classroom Adventures Program is designed to use kids' love of Magic Tree House adventures and their identification with Jack and Annie to spark interest in learning across the curriculum and accomplish classroom requirements in creative, meaningful and long-lasting ways.
“Learning to read and loving to read
can be a passport to freedom. With
books, children can travel over
boundaries and borders. They can
gain knowledge to help overcome
the hardships they face. They can
discover the best in themselves -
and then use their talents to help
others.”
-Mary Pope Osborne
How did the Classroom Adventures Program begin?
We give an Educator of the Year Award every year, and I've met these teachers over the years who've done such creative things. The Classroom Adventures Program started because we wanted to give books away to schools that couldn't afford them. But when we visited those classrooms, we realized that the teachers didn't know what to do with the books. We thought, "We'll do this program for them." Then it grew to "We'll do this program for everyone."
How will the program work?
It will roll out nationwide; the Web site will launch in the next two weeks. It will supply teachers with three things:
“Learning to read and loving to read
can be a passport to freedom. With
books, children can travel over
boundaries and borders. They can
gain knowledge to help overcome
the hardships they face. They can
discover the best in themselves -
and then use their talents to help
others.”
-Mary Pope Osborne
How did the Classroom Adventures Program begin?
We give an Educator of the Year Award every year, and I've met these teachers over the years who've done such creative things. The Classroom Adventures Program started because we wanted to give books away to schools that couldn't afford them. But when we visited those classrooms, we realized that the teachers didn't know what to do with the books. We thought, "We'll do this program for them." Then it grew to "We'll do this program for everyone."
How will the program work?
It will roll out nationwide; the Web site will launch in the next two weeks. It will supply teachers with three things:
- A curriculum key to the stories and Fact Trackers with regard to how they correlate to subjects they're teaching and the core curriculum standards
- A reading level guide for all the books, which includes: Lexile, Fountas & Pinnell, Guided, DRA, Accelerated Reader Reading Levels and Grade Level Equivalent
- Lesson plans for each book to supplement what teachers are already doing