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You’ve read Goodnight Moon and Hop on Pop at least a hundred times. Expand the literacy experience with these fun hands-on activities.
Tools to help your pre-reader become a confident and successful reader.
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“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
-Emilie Buchwald
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Give Me Twenty Reading Challenge Entry Forms
(entries accepted through May 2, 2010) Official Rules
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GIVE ME TWENTY
READING CHALLENGE
March 1-April 25, 2010 |
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Beginning March 1st and going through April 25th, read to your class/children at least 20 minutes per day at least five days per week. You can use whatever reading schedule works best for you.
Classrooms/children who have read at least 800 minutes during this time period are eligible for a chance to win a R.E.D. Zone Reward. Registered participants will receive the official Give Me Twenty Reading Challenge Sweepstakes Entry Form via email after April 26, 2010, for a chance to win a prize package including two books, Corduroy and A Pocket for Corduroy, a plush Corduroy bear, and a one-year subscription to One More Story.
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Register for the Give Me Twenty Reading Challenge and you will be eligible for a chance to win a R.E.D. Zone Reward. As a registered participant, you will also receive our special eNotes to help you stay on track with your reading during the challenge and receive the email containing the link for the official entry form for the Give Me Twenty Reading Challenge after you complete it! Registering is free and easy.
We're sorry! The registration deadline has passed. You can still participate in the Challenge for the remaining weeks, however, in order to be eligible for a chance to win the R.E.D. Zone Reward prizes, registration must have occurred by 3/1/10. |
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- Tell your class/children that read-aloud time for the next eight weeks is going to be extra special because you’ll be going on reading adventures every day.
- Introduce Corduroy, our 2010 R.E.D. Zone reading partner, and show the button and pocket cutouts. Explain that every time you read aloud to them in March and April, you’ll write the name of the book – or the amount of time read – on a cutout and then tape or glue it to the wall or bulletin board display (click here for samples). You can add both button and pocket cutouts to the poster throughout the eight-week period. Or you can add the button cutout one month and the pocket cutout the next month. Making the display “come to life” will give children – and their parents – a fun activity that will increase their involvement and interest in read-aloud time.
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- Tell the children that the more you read, the more cutouts they will be able to add to the display. The cutouts may even spill out over the sides of the display and this is a fun way to keep track of how much you’ve read together.
- Let the children know that you’ll also be giving cutouts to their parents so that when they read together at home, they can bring the cutouts to class to add to the display.* If time permits, ask the children to help you cut out, color, and/or decorate a supply of the cutouts (optional).
- Hang up the R.E.D. Zone Reading calendar. Every day that you read together, you can color in Corduroy and fill in the amount of time read for the day. At the end of the week, add up the number of minutes you’ve read and write it on the calendar. Track your reading time during the entire eight weeks of the challenge. At the end of eight weeks, classes/children who read at least 800 minutes are eligible for R.E.D. Zone Rewards!
*Copy and send home a Parent Letter and a supply of Corduroy Cutouts with each child. Encourage parents to participate at home by reading to their child on a regular basis and returning the cutouts filled in with titles read. Let parents know that the research indicates that reading aloud to children is the single most important activity for building reading success.
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