ReadWriteThink.org offers January calendar

 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 January in 2008, a leap year.

January 1: Annie Moore, a 15-year-old Irish girl, is the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island, New York, in 1892.
January 8: Elvis Presley was born in 1935.
January 14: The American Library Association announces the book award winners for 2008.
January 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929.
January 22: The “1984” MacIntosh commercial aired in 1984 during Super Bowl XVIII.
January 28: The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.

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.