Ohio Reading Road Trip

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Ohio has good reason to brag about our authors. Ohio literature has shaped American literature and society for two centuries! And now, the Ohio Reading Road Trip brings some of Ohio's greatest writers into middle school classrooms.

This interactive curriculum package for students in grades 6-8 contains fun reading and writing activities, as well as multimedia resources on this web site and on DVD/VHS. Together, students and teachers will explore the lives and works of historically significant figures such as Sherwood Anderson, James Thurber, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, as well as contemporary authors such as Sharon Draper, Sharon Creech, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove.

The Ohio Reading Road Trip is produced by ThinkTV Network - Greater Dayton Public Television in partnership with CET, Cincinnati. Cooperating agencies include the Ohio Arts Council, Ohioana Library Association, the Mazer Corporation, the public television stations of Ohio, and the educational technology agencies of Ohio.

The Ohio Reading Road Trip is made possible by a grant from the Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission (OET) in support of the Ohio SchoolNet Initiative.