THE
DISCOVERY SCHOOL MARCH
READ –A- THON
At Discovery School we love to read and we want to motivate our students to
continue to discover the wonderful world found in books, where just about
anything can happen! Through the DS READ-A-THON
our Early Childhood and Elementary (Grades K-5) students will be encouraged to
read more often in the classroom and at home.
In organizing this READ-A-THON our objective is to help our students re-discover the
joy of reading. A READ-A-THON is an event that encourages students and their
families to read more, try new books, and have fun doing it. Extensive
research proves that children who read for pleasure will gain advantages that
last their whole lives. Research also demonstrates with overwhelming evidence that
literacy has a significant relationship with a person’s happiness and success.
Furthermore, the academic benefits of a strong leisure reading habit are not
confined to improved reading ability. Leisure reading makes students more
articulate, develops higher order reasoning, and promotes critical thinking –
all of these skills for lifelong learning skills!
Our READ-A-THON
will take place from March 3 to March 31, 2014. Each student will be given a
Reading Log sheet and a special bookmark for this event. The goal is for every
student to read as many books as he or she can, and keep a record of his or her
reading. Once the sheet had been filled out, each student will need to turn it
in to their homeroom teacher, and will be given a new one. The student in each
class who, at the end of the month, reads more grade level (or above grade
level books) will be honored in an assembly, and will be treated to a special
lunch outside the school on Friday, April 4.
We ask our parents to support his initiative at
home by providing their child with appropriate books for reading. Parents can
borrow books from their child’s class library, check out books from our school
library, download (free or purchased) books for their e-readers, borrow from a
friend…the possibilities are endless! Let’s face it, parents will LOVE seeing
their child lost in the world of a “cant-put-it-down” book! Who doesn't want to
bring reading back into family time?!
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