Between The Pages

Literacy advocate and author Alane Adams has spent the past few years traveling the US visiting over 300 schools and speaking to over 100,000 students about why reading is a superpower. Now, Alane has brought her powerful talk to life in an imaginative and award-winning video series called Between The Pages. This resource is free to teachers and can be accessed by registering on her webpage at www.AlaneAdams.com. The video segments are designed to get students in grades 2-8 excited about reading by taking them between the pages of a book, teaching them all the fundamental steps an author undertakes when writing a story. These videos help students understand the important elements of story and provide insights into how authors write.

The video segments are broken down into short time blocks followed by classroom discussion time. This allows for the experience to be more interactive rather than static as students are challenged at the end of each video to consider what comes next. The videos can be watched all at once or divided into different days, according to classroom needs. Following each video is a set of three different grade-level worksheets students can use to facilitate classroom discussion and deepen learning.

Teacher’s struggle to find dynamic resources that can engage kids in difficult subjects. One of the most difficult subjects they report struggling with is encouraging students to read. Between The Pages lights that spark in students minds by giving them the “inside track” to how author’s think when they write books. This insider knowledge helps them to understand more fully just what a book is, and they are more able to decipher the story within the pages because they have a sense of a book’s structure in their mind.