The Colorado Reader Series—Food, Fiber, Natural Resources and More

The Colorado Reader is an eight-page student activity newspaper made available free to Colorado educators (teachers can order their classroom sets online) thanks to sponsors. If you would like to sponsor a classroom, please visit the donations page or use the button in the right hand column.

Packaged in classroom sets of 25 and accompanied by a four-page teacher's guide, the Colorado Reader is published and distributed monthly during the school year. Each issue is developed to allow educators to teach their students about agriculture and natural resource topics and reinforce Colorado Content Standards. CFA has provided more than 5 million free copies of the Colorado Reader.

On average 1000 classrooms across the state subscribe to the series each year. CFA is the only provider of the Colorado Reader series.

The following readers and Teachers Guides (seperate download) are available for download (click the triangles to sort the table).

Colorado Reader Archive (2004 and Earlier)

Need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Support Ag Literacy by sponsoring a Classroom

Maybe now more than ever, there is a need to teach children about food, fiber and natural resources. A $60 "Adopt a Classroom" donation provides the monthly set of Readers and Teacher's Guide to a classroom in Colorado.