ReadWriteThink.org offers calendar feature

 Each month, the ReadWriteThink.org Calendar offers quick classroom activities, lesson plans, Web links, and texts pertaining to various reading–related and general interest events. Here is a sampling of the links for August:

August 1: The prototype for the World Wide Web was created in 1990.
August 10: Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel, Monster, was born in 1937.
August 13: William Caxton, the first English printer, was born in 1422.
August 17: Davy Crockett was born in 1786.
August 21: Monarch butterflies begin their fall migration.
August 23: The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas.
August 26: The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920.

There also are links relating to other noted authors and events, and more. For further information, visit the website. The ReadWriteThink.org is a nonprofit website maintained by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English with support from the Verizon Foundation, and in association with the Thinkfinity consortium. The site provides free lesson plans, interactive student materials, Web resources, and standards for K-12 classroom teachers of reading and the English language arts. Visit the main site.