Readathon
The 8th Annual Readathon is Underway!
Can the students read 22,000 books in only 4 weeks?!? It sounds like a lot, but if every student reads 5 books/chapters* per day, they’ll make it!. Last year, the students took on the 20,000 challenge in 3 weeks and EXCEEDED it by 22 books!!
In the past we’ve had, as rewards for their amazing efforts, such All-School Programs as Sliming Mayor Alan Cohen, Moreland the Magician, Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy, Vitamin L, The Bubble Man and last year, a school-wide DJ & DANCE Party! Stay tuned to next Friday Morning Program, January 16th, to find out what reward the students can earn THIS year!
So, how does this thing work? To get them started, we gave them a head last weekend to start to READ like mad! Your student already received a reading tally sheet to chart their reading. They (or you) should record a tally for each book or chapter* (no fair repeating books!) and have an adult initial above the last tally at the end of the day.
For our chapter book readers, we are allowing them to count each chapter as a book read…provided it is at their reading level. For example, a child who can read a book such as The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe would count those chapters each as a book, but would not count a chapter in a Junie B. Jones book as a book.
For pre-readers and independent readers alike, there are many activities that count as reading. They include:
- Your child listening to a tape and following along in a book.
- Someone reading a story to your child.
- Your child reading a book (comic books are OK).
- Your child reading or listening to a chapter book (each chapter may be counted as a book).
- Your child reading or listening to newspapers and magazines (each counts as a book).
- Your child reading or listening to books in class or in the library.
This includes all in-school reading, too! Most teachers have a read-aloud period in class, and Mrs. Ossont also does reading during library time, and each student may apply their in-school reading chapters toward their cumulative total! After all, our goal is to ENCOURAGE and PROMOTE reading, and get students ENTHUSIASTIC about and COMMITTED to becoming readers!
Remember! Every book COUNTS toward the GOAL of 22,000 books!
Need the tally sheet to track books? Download it here.