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Reading Programs
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• Motivates kids to practice reading
• Makes it easy for schools to track reading
minutes by student, grade, and school
Motivate your students to reach an amazing reading goal — 100,000 minutes! A free, year-round program, READ 100,000 fits in nicely with your school’s current annual reading plan. Simply set
a schoolwide goal of 100,000 reading minutes or more and then track students’ reading minutes online at scholastic.com/minutes.
Students can continue tracking reading minutes throughout the summer, and maintain their current reading levels with the excit- ing Scholastic Summer Reading ChallengeTM! School teams track their reading minutes in an attempt to break the school reading goal. Use it as an effective summer reading tool to prevent the summer slide. Visit scholastic.com/bookfairs/summerreading for details.
u Summer stock. Remind parents to gear up
for the summer break by stocking up on books for summer reading.
Check out these additional family programs we offer you and your school, at no cost, as a way to encourage a reading culture within families.
Make the most of parent involvement. Children who are read to for at least 20 minutes a day dramatically increase their reading abilities. Raising Readers focuses on three ways adult family members can read to and with their children — “I READ TO YOU, WE READ TOGETH- ER, AND YOU READ TO ME.” This interactive workshop models simple, effective ways for families to make the reading experience successful.
Reach out to parents of rising preschoolers with the Kindergarten Readiness family event program. Simply invite those families to your Book Fair, introducing them to your school and its reading culture. Then share preschool-to-kindergarten transition tips plus curriculum, class routine, teacher’s expectations, and pre-reading skills infor- mation.
Parents and students at your school can try this no-cost program together. They’ll learn how to be detectives by investigating infor- mational text in a fun, interactive way. This program shares strategies for finding pertinent information in nonfiction text by scrutinizing sources that all family members will enjoy.
For more information, talk to your Book Fair consultant.
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