Share a Story, Shape a Future is an annual blog tour for literacy. Through this event, the bloggers hope to build a community of readers by sharing ideas and encouraging each other. It is, as the name suggests, an opportunity to share ideas, encourage each other, and spread the word about children's literacy.

If you get the time, stop by these blogs and see what everyone is talking about:

March 8th: The Many Faces of Reading
Host: Terry Doherty at Scrub-A-Dub-Tub

Topics of the day will encompass the relationship aspect of helping children learn to read: parent-child and teacher-parent partnerships, literacy outreach; and libraries, to name a few.

March 9th: Literacy My Way/Literacy Your Way
Host: Susan Stephenson at The Book Chook
Creative literacy in all its forms (writing, art, computers) will be the topic of the day.

March 10th: Just the Facts: The Nonfiction Book Hook
Host: Sarah Mulhern at The Reading Zone

This is the day for exploring the different genres of nonfiction (biography and memoir, science, nature, math, etc), as well as the use (or not) of historical fiction.

March 11th: Reading Through the Ages: Old Faves & New Classics
Host: Donalyn Miller at The Book Whisperer

Bloggers will share thematic book lists that include newer titles and the classics we loved as kids.

March 12th: Reading for the Next Generation
Host: Jen Robinson at Jen Robinson's Book Page
Discussion will include how to approach reading when your interests and your child's don't match. It may be that you don't like to read but your child does, how to raise the reader you're not, and dealing with the "pressure" of feeling forced to read.