Work your way to Success with Reading by Paul Ratburn
My show consists of many popular children's effects (and a few obscure ones) with a message that whatever career path you take it is important to be able to read.

This is a great school assembly or library show with a repeating message of the importance of reading.

For example, the PB& J effect has patter that emphasizes how a chef uses reading everyday in their work.

An excerpt from my patter for the PB& J routine:
If you want to be a chef someday, you are going to need to be able to read so you can follow recipes and read your favorite cookbooks. You have to be able to write down the recipes you create so you will be able to recreate them later. And you have to be able to read about nutrition and the health of food so you know what you are making is healthy for people to eat. If you decide to grow up and be a chef, you need to grow up being able to do what? (The audience shouts back READ!)

Reading is brought up with each routine and is the emphasis of the show. The kids walk away knowing that reading is fundamental.

Now, because the show is made up of other peoples' effects/routines I won't be able to include the workings of their effects/routines. However I can explain what I use and how I tied it into the reading theme.

Each show had a run time of about 45 minutes and is packed with magic.

You might be interested in purchasing this for ideas/ways to incorporate these effects into your existing show. Or you might just take the script and use it as is.

Here are the tricks in the Reading show without their presentations:

THIS bottle production
milk to silk
cd serenade
newspaper tear
clear force bag large size
milk pitcher
needle through balloon
vanishing bandana
PB&J
Snakeles snake cans by Mike Bent
library card monte
silk to egg
air head Rudy/Fred
chair suspension