Read ME Agriculture
March 18 - 22, 2024
Interested in being a Volunteer Reader?
Register to volunteer below!
Read ME Agriculture brings volunteer readers into classrooms (virtually or in-person) to read an agriculture-themed book and share lessons and resources with Maine classrooms grades Pre-K to 4.
The 2024 program, which runs March 18 – 22 during National Ag Week, features the book The Wakame Gatherers written by Holly Thompson and illustrated by Kazumi Wilds.
Every classroom that participates will receive a copy of the book and accompanying educator’s guide, with aligned classroom activities. To best serve the hundreds of classrooms that participate in Read ME each year, the 2024 program will be a hybrid model where classrooms can choose from in-person and virtual options. Classrooms may choose their own reader or request a volunteer reader. Contacts may register their own classroom or schools may choose 1 contact to register multiple classrooms.
Please register by February 9, 2024, and we will contact you by email to fine-tune your participation.
Questions? Contact louisa@knox-lincoln.org.
The chosen Read ME Ag book for 2024 is The Wakame Gatherers written by Holly Thompson and illustrated by Kazumi Wilds.
Volunteer for Read ME Ag 2024
Volunteer Readers sign up to read a selected book to one or more Pre-kindergarten through 4th grade classrooms in Knox and/or Lincoln counties during Read ME Ag Week (March 18-22, 2024). This year's book is The Wakame Gatherers written by Holly Thompson and illustrated by Kazumi Wilds. Register to volunteer by March 1, 2024, or sooner.
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MAITC program Read ME Ag brings volunteer readers into classrooms (virtually or in-person) to read an agriculture-themed book and share lessons and resources.
About Read ME Ag
Read "ME" Agriculture has reached more than 100,000 Maine students since 2008, and 700 classrooms annually. During Ag Week, volunteers read and give books about agriculture to Pre-kindergarten through 4th grade classrooms. They tell the students about their farms, programs, or connections to agriculture and leave lessons and information for the teachers to use, all supplied by Maine Agriculture in the Classroom (MAITC).
Funding for this project is a direct result of the Maine agricultural specialty license plate and grants from USDA.