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Book Bash Score With Reading! |
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Below is an example of a week long reading celebration
culminating in a reading carnival
and some of our students enjoying the love of reading!
Congratualations to New Stuyahok Students!!
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Students in first grade to sixth grade helped to celebrate Reading is Fundamental (R.I.F.) week by participating in a poster contest hosted by Chief Ivan Blunka school. Students were asked to design their posters within the theme “Adventures in Reading”. Students submitted many creative posters and it was a tough choice for judges to choose the first place poster. Congratulations to Petricia Chunak, the winner in the K-2 category, Cynthia Blunka winner in the 3-5 category and Cinda Epchook winner in the 6-8 category. Thank you to all the students who participated in the poster contest. We look forward to seeing your posters again next year. Also thank you to the judges for taking time to judge the posters that were submitted. |
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12 RULES ON READING
1. Read. 2. Read. 3. Read some more. 4. Read anything. 5. Read about everything. 6. Read enjoyable things. 7. Read things you yourself enjoy. 8. Read, and talk about it. 9. Read very carefully, some things. 10. Read on the run, most things. 11. Don't think about reading, but 12. Just read.
Bookmarks & Posters @ www.highsmith.com |
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Kick off "Score With Reading"  |
"Jog into Reading Day" |
"Be a Sport, Read a Book"  |
"Luge yourself in a good book" |
Read My Shirt & Carnival  |
| Reading Throne,
Have older students decorate reading chair that is located in principals office. Recognize student accomplishments in reading by selecting one or two children daily to go to the Principals office to read. (Would like to display reading thrones on web) |
Students wear sweat suits to school for "Jog into Reading Day"
Start day off with some jumping jacks and situps. |
Students wear uniforms or shirts from their favorite sports team.
High school athletes serve as guest readers in younger grades |
Reader's afternoon
Quiet reading Bring in pillows, blankets, teddy bears, supply hot chocolate and cookies, invite parents into read along side children |
Read my shirt!
Student should all wear something that has to be read (for example, a T-shirt) Celebrate with a cake iced with the words "Score with Reading" Reading/Halloween Carnival in the afternoon |
| Discuss creating Battle Books Teams in the rooms and when to meet | Discuss creating Battle Books Teams in the rooms and when to meet | Discuss creating Battle Books Teams in the rooms and when to meet | Discuss creating Battle Books Teams in the rooms and when to meet | Discuss creating Battle Books Teams in the rooms and when to meet |
| Explain:
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) |
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) | Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) | Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) | Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) |
| A designated but undisclosed spotter keeps a look out for children reading (unrelated to school work) during the week. If a child is "caught reading" name is entered into a prize drawing | "Caught You Reading" | "Caught You Reading" | "Caught You Reading" | Prize drawing for "Caught YOu Reading" |
| Hand out special Bookmarks or
have students design their own bookmarks |
Create Posters for the "Theme: Score with Reading" District contest for best poster and two runner ups | Staff Readers Theatre Presention | * | Station 1:
Book Walk instead of cake walk |
| Explain the school's goal / Principal's Challenge (this lasts for as
long as decided by schools)
to get the principal to do something |
* | Olympics Party:
Have students set their accelerated reader reading goals and give out gold, silver, and bronze medals. |
* | Station 2: Elders story telling |
| * | * | * | Station 3: Apple Bobbing: Get to pick a book instead | |
| Explain District wide challenge and prizes
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* | * | * | Station 4: Session for Parents while children are rotating through
stations.
Family Reading Enhancing the Home and School: Watch short video "Read To Me"
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| Extra ideas:
from Education World |
District wide roaming trophy for school that has read the most pages. |
| Leaders of Readers
Take a photograph of each faculty member reading a favorite book and enlarge the photos. Put the photos on a bulletin board under the heading "Leaders of Reader." Then take pictures of students doing the same thing and place their photos on an adjoining board captioned "Look Who's Also READING!!" |
Produce a Reader's Theater play. Print out copies of the hilarious Reader's Theater plays offered on Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Page. Assign parts to school staff (cafeteria workers, the school nurse, principal, secretary, custodian, etc.). Don't practice TOO much. The mistakes when reading and the easy atmosphere that surrounds these informal plays make them hilarious! Students will howl! |
| "Open the Door to Reading." Decorate your classroom door as a book. At some point in the day, conduct a "Book Walk" to view the decorated doors. All participating classes receive a Door Decorating Contest Certificate! | Take time to vote. Hold a schoolwide "Vote for Your Favorite Book" election. (You might hold a primary election before the general election.) Students will present campaign speeches and posters for their book "candidates." If you have closed-circuit TV, "political advertisements" could be broadcast each day. |
| Decorate a cereal box to illustrate your favorite story. Hold a contest. Let students vote on their favorite cereal story. | Pastries with parents
Have parents come with kids before school or during school for about 30 mins of reading together in the medias center with pastries and juice and coffee. |
| Set up say three or four reading areas and have three or four teachers dress up as a book character and read in each area. KIds were encouraged to dress as a book character as well. | Books and Bagels morning. |
| "Read Across ...." Students record the number of
minutes they read each week. The librarian has a formula she uses to covert number of minutes to miles traveled. I am not sure if it was 1:1 or not. They tracked the number of minutes the kids in the school read by marking a route on a map of the US. The route went through towns that some of the parents of children in the school had grown up in. (Hitting as many states as possible.) As part of the program, the school's mascot, a stuffed animal named Midnight the Mustang, was sent through US mail to the elementary schools parents had attended. |
Match the teacher with their favorite book
~ Get pictures of staff members when they were quite young. Say K-3 grade. Have them tell me what their favorite book was when they were young. Create a book template and run that off on different colored paper and attach a scanned copy of the staff members picture and a picture of the cover of their favorite children's book. The students who want to participate in this contest come to me and get a sheet to match the pictures/books with the staff member. I provide a list of all the teachers who participated in the contest at the bottom of the sheet to aide the students in their guessing. I make this into a bulletin board and everyone loves coming to look at it. |
Family Library Night Examples
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I am a library/media aide in a small school in Wisconsin. We started
a Family Library Night last year. I volunteer my time, one Monday
night a month. (they offered to pay me, but I felt that if I were
being paid, I would have to justify numbers, and I wanted it to go,
no matter how few or how many people we had)
We meet once a month, on Monday night
for one hour. We started
out with a 20 minute segment where readers came in and read to the
children, then they had the rest of the time to browse the library
and pick out books to check out. Students were allowed to check
out
an extra book for library night. They were put in the computer.
Younger children and parents, I kept track of the old fashioned way,
on a yellow legal pad! Parents were also encouraged to check out
magazines and videos. For Christmas one of my
forensics students (I am also a forensics coach) dressed up like
Santa Claus and came in and read "The Night Before Christmas", and
our principal made cookies and I brought candy canes, and Santa
mingled with the kids and helped them pick out their books. It was
a
huge success.
The teachers became enthused too, and volunteered
to come in and
do a craft each time. Also, community people come in and read
and
help with the crafts. As an example, one teacher came in dressed
as
Cat in the Hat and read Doctor Suess books. Then two volunteers
helped the children make a "Foot Book", with each one a page with
their footprint and name. We now have a theme each month, with
reading (poetry, stories, whatever fits) and a craft time. (ex.
We
had kites and spring, they made kites, for St. Patricks Day they had
leprechan stories and made a rainbow out of paper chains that
led
from the ceiling to a pot of gold).
It has been wonderfully received by community
and school, and it
is so much fun! Of course, now it is running over 1 hour, but
no one
cares. Kids and libraries go together so beautifully - and I get as
much out of it as they do.
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