NOW SCHEDULING 2026-27 SCHOOL YEAR
The Checkers Reading Road Trip Enrichment Tour is a live literacy experience designed to help children see reading as more than a school assignment. Through comedy, storytelling, audience participation, real books, and Checkers’ personal journey, students discover how reading can build imagination, confidence, creativity, and opportunity.
Created for schools, libraries, and community partners across Western New York, this tour brings Checkers the Inventor’s high-energy approach directly to young readers and the adults who support them.
Bring the Tour to Your School or Library
A Literacy Journey Students Remember
In The Reading Road Trip, Checkers takes students on an interactive journey with multiple “stops” that explore the power of reading. Along the way, students learn how books can teach us new things, spark imagination, support academic success, encourage smart choices, and bring people together.
This show is a fast-moving, visual, participatory school experience built to make students laugh, think, and leave more excited about books.
Why Checkers?
Checkers the Inventor is the creator of the nationally streamed Reading Road Trip series, which has played in schools and libraries across the country. He now brings that same creativity, energy, and educational focus to live audiences through school assemblies, library programs, and community events.
His own story is part of the message. Checkers shares how reading helped shape his path from a curious student to a published author and even to a performer selected to appear at the White House.
That personal journey gives students a real-world example of where reading, creativity, and hard work can lead.
What Students Take Away
Students discover that reading can:
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Teach them new and exciting things
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Improve creativity and imagination
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Help them become stronger students
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Encourage healthy, smart choices
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Bring people and communities together
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Inspire them to create stories, ideas, and dreams of their own
The program is designed to support literacy goals while also creating the kind of shared school memory students talk about long after the assembly ends.