Promotional Ideas

Here are some ideas for promoting the Grand Canyon Reader Award books. I have gleaned these from other state awards sites.

Provide "I Voted Stickers"

• "Pack a book" for a grand adventure!
• "Burro your way into a good book."
• "Burro into a good book."

Promotional Ideas Handout

• GCRA Breakfast or Lunch Club, offer periodic meals through the year and have notables come and read- public librarian, police, mayor, legislator or superintendent!
• Have an GCRA unveiling of the winner, with cookies, punch, (or an ice cream sundae bash or breakfast) and a decorated table with the unveiling at the appropriate time.
• GCRA Lunch Bunch, where kids come in and read while eating lunch.
• Create GCRA checks and have the students fill out the amount they believe the book to be worth. Have them write on the back of the check a justification for the amount.
• Have drawings for prizes for students that have read books.
• Have an GCRA parade.
• Take a blank map of Arizona and divide it into 8-10 sections (depending on which section of GCRA books you're reading) and the kids can color in a section when they read a book.
• Create voter registration cards.
• Do book talk announcements over the PA or on video.
• Advertise the books in school newsletters.
• Create GCRA commercials.
• Create a special art exhibit of student work with pictures about the books.
• Create a recognition to be placed on a student's desk when they've completed a book.
• Play GCRA Jeopardy.
• Create an artifact matching game.
• Create a Voting Day poster.
• Print GCRA voting stickers for the students to put on their shirt after voting.