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 October:

October 1: Celebrate Banned Book Week.
October 5: The 2007 Children’s Choices booklist is published.
October 8: Author, painter, quilter, storyteller Faith Ringgold was born in 1930.
October 12: Christopher Columbus Day
October 15: Teen Read Week begins.
October 25: Artist Pablo Picasso was born in 1881.
October 31: Boo! It's Halloween!

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.