March is National Reading Month, and this week, RISD is celebrating Read Across America Week with different activities across our campuses.
This year’s theme is the “Symphony of Stories”, celebrating the joy of reading. Every book has its own rhythm, voice, and stories come to life.
Across the district, students are celebrating in different ways, with everything from guest readers, reading books about making music & composers, singing stories aloud, dressing up as their favorite characters, hosting book-tasting libraries, and even “changing the coda” by rewriting the end of their favorite book.
As RISD celebrates the joy of reading this week, we encourage everyone to make time for a good book, think about how students learn, explore, and escape through the words on a page.
Suggested Reading for K-3rd Graders
- 88 Instruments by Chris Barton
- Equate by Mo Willems
- Symphony for a Broken Orchestra by Amy Ignatow
- Adela’s Mariachi Band by Denis Vega
- Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
- When the Beat was Born by Laban Hill
- Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin by Cheiri Uegaki
- Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
- Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo by John Lithgow
Suggested Reading for 3-6th Graders
- The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
- Who was Louis Armstrong? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
- Duet by Elise Broach
- Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelley
- Echo by Pam Munor Ryan
- Amina’s Song by Hena Khan
- The First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez
- Barakah Beats by Maleeha Siddiqui
- All Summer Long by Hope Larsen
