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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   A Trip to the Museum: From Picture to Story
   Visit a museum or art gallery (either online or in person) with children and teens, helping them find inspiration for a story based on a piece of art that they particularly enjoy or relate to.
   
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Celebrate Heroes
   Encourage children to spend a little time thinking and writing about just what makes a hero and who their personal heroes might be.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Comics and Graphic Novels
   Instead of creating traditional book reports or writing summaries, get “graphic” by creating a comic book or cartoon adaptation of the major scenes from the books.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Create Trading Cards for Favorite Characters
   Use the online Character Trading Cards tool to have children make cards describing their favorite characters from the books on their reading list.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Creating Comics and Cartoons!
   Using published comics and cartoons as examples, children can create their own while playing with images and language.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Creating Family Timelines
   Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.
   
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Design a Travel Brochure
   Invite children and teens to create a travel brochure to share information about a special place with others.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Explore and Write About Nature
   In this activity, children look closely at living things in their natural environments and then make books about what they see.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Activity & Project
   Explore Point of View in Fairy Tales
   Explore fairy tales told in both old and new ways and use an online tool to help children create their own “fractured” version of a fairy tale.
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Activity & Project
    Explore Summers Past and Present
    Have fun sharing favorite summer memories. In this activity, children think about their own memories and answer questions before asking the same questions of someone older.

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