Hi Maricel:

Here's an article which I found.  It should be a great effort!! 
http://www.masslive.com/springfield/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-6/116548249215900.xml&coll=1


>>> maricelgsantos at yahoo.com 12/12/06 5:02 PM >>>

Dear Carole -- I'd like to pass on this
information to my family literacy programs --
where can I get information about the
world-record breaking attempt?

Best, maricel santos

--- Carole Bos <cbos at bosglazier.com> wrote:


> The live-action film about "Charlotte's Web"

> opens on Friday.  Tomorrow

> teachers and students throughout the world will

> attempt to break the

> Guinness world record for "most people reading

> aloud simultaneously in

> multiple locations" as they read passages from

> E.B. White's beloved

> book.  This web site will provide helpful

> background for students who

> want to know more about "Charlotte's Web."  

>

http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/charlottes_web/charlottes_web_ch1.htm

>  With it, they can learn about spiders like

> Charlotte (how they spin

> their webs, eat, lay eggs and balloon); "meet"

> E.B. White (as a young

> boy and a grown man); see where White lived and

> wrote his stories; view

> White's barn (which was the model for

> Zuckerman's farm); hear White (who

> died in 1985) read from the first part of his

> book; and learn about pigs

> (like Wilbur) and rats (like Templeton).  Also

> included are links to

> lesson plans, scientific links for older

> students and two of the film's

> trailers.

> 

> The web site http://www.awesomestories.com/ is

> free for all educators,

> schools and libraries.  Simply request an

> academic membership with this

> sign-up form. 

> http://www.awesomestories.com/group_signup.php 

> 

> 

> Carole Bos

> Dean's Advisory Board

> Grand Valley State University

> bosc at gvsu.edu 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

>

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