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Rick and Bobo has been lauded by adults of all ages, and young adults as young as 11. It has been used in classrooms with students in both middle and high school. Below you will find videos of those classes (coming soon), Create Writing Curricula created for Rick and Bobo by a teacher with over 5 decades of experience, as well as other peripheral materials.
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Rick and Bobo Crossword Puzzle!
Created by Bobo
Test your students knowledge of Rick and Bobo and have fun with this brain teaser!
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Rick and Bobo Creative Writing Curricula
Created by Dr. Robert Rose
Dr.Rose has been an educator for over fifty years and has taught every grade throughout So. California. He is the author of The Complete Teacher, as well as many other educational books, workbooks and videos. |
Most importantly, Dr. Rose is a huge Rick and Bobo fan! In fact, he has created a 4 part series of creative writing curricula for teachers based on Rick and Bobo, which he posts on his blog at The Huffington Post - "The Internet Newspaper." |
 
This is the perfect book to foster love of reading with its mix of humor, drama, and rocket paced action. In over 50 years of teaching first grade through university level, I have seldom read a book that I know will keep any class mesmerized from start to finish. Rick and Bobo is one of those rare finds.
What fun this book is. I couldn't put it down until I finished it. I'll be sharing this with my fellow teachers and students - immediately.
To prove how convinced I am that this should be read in schools, I am creating a series of educational challenges to young readers (and their teachers and parents) to use this book to learn the fundamentals of creative writing. Reading should be fun and this book is a whale full. I will be posting this series on my Educators Blog for the Huffington Post.
I can easily see this series as a wonderful movie franchise. And if these guys aren't scooped up as the next J.K. Rowling, then Hollywood is missing the boat!"
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"Despite all the great technology there will always be people who read books for the pure joy of living in their imagination with a writer. There is a bond between the reader and the writer that can have the intimacy of a loving relationship. Therefore, the better reader you become the more easily you will develop this bond of empathetic understanding. I have taught thousands to read and in my articles and I hope to help many more. Read on!"
—Dr. Rose
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Challenges for Rick and Bobo
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This article will use the book, Rick & Bobo by James & Nick Ventrillo, 2009, Vänir Books, but the concepts can be applied to any book, movie, or story. Reading and writing are basically thinking skills. Once you learn how the symbols for the sounds look and sound, you need to know what they represent or mean.
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Critical Thinking: Impossible in Schools?
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The process of critical thinking or teaching of these skills are possible in schools, but I think what is attempted should be called clearer thinking.
The following are all useful ways to get more skill practice and more content from any reading by offering them different approaches that keep them motivated. They work well. (My teachers are using these with the novel, Rick and Bobo.)
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| Creating Your Own Questions |
The process of asking questions makes you think more deeply and thoughtfully about what you have read or a program that you've seen or an idea that has been discussed.
Use the novel Rick and Bobo to give students practice in asking questions. In the beginning most want to use the simpler types, but teach and encourage them to create more complex questions, even those with no easy answers or ones that may promote great discussions.
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| Increasing Reading Speed! |
Scanning is a legitimate fast reading technique. Thorough readers pick up some data that scanners miss, but scanners read much more efficiently, get the key ideas, and are not as bored by their assignments.
If you're using the sci-fi novel, Rick and Bobo, take different parts like mostly conversation, intense action sections, or descriptions and have them speed-read these to see how their reading speed changes depending on the content and context.
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Our thanks to Dr. Rose for his support and generosity
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