08:23 AM EDT on Monday, September 27, 2004

Reading the Sky - Chapter 13

Reading the Sky - Chapter 12

Reading the Sky - Chapter 11

Reading the Sky - Chapter 10

Reading the Sky - Chapter 9

Reading the Sky - Chapter 8

Reading the Sky - Chapter 7

Reading the Sky - Chapter 6

Reading the Sky - Chapter 5

Reading the Sky - Chapter 4

Reading the Sky - Chapter 3

Reading the Sky - Chapter 2

Reading the Sky - Chapter 1

Avi shapes his good ideas with words of understanding

13-part story begins today

Today's Kidsbeat page in Lifebeat contains the first installment of a 13-part serialized story written by Avi, a Newbery Medal-winning author of 57 children's stories, and illustrated by Joan Sandin.

The serial story is titled Reading with the Sky and tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Jamie who suffers from dyslexia, a learning problem that impairs his ability to read. Jamie struggles with his reading problem as he tries to help catch a thief who has stolen a million dollars and kidnapped his friend Gillian.

Future installments in the series will appear weekly in Kidsbeat on Mondays through Dec. 20.

The Providence Journal has produced a 16-page Newspaper in Education supplement to the serial which contains story-related curriculum activities and space for students to paste in the 13 newspaper installments to produce their own serial "book." About 20,000 copies of the supplement are being distributed today to classrooms in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts.

For more information on the classroom activities, contact Avis Gunther-Rosenberg, the Providence Journal's Newpaper in Education Coordinator at (401) 277-7181 or agrosenb [at] projo.com. More information on Newspaper in Education at www.projo.com/nie.