Read-a-thon – Choose the Read-a-thon theme, coordinate the opening and closing programs, track students reading & determine prizes.
- Time frame: Planning begins over the Summer; program usually runs through the month of September.
- Committee Chair or Co-Chairs responsibilities: Choose the theme, coordinate dates for kick-off, end of Read-a-thon and Awards Assembly, communicate with school administration & teachers, and organize planning meetings with committee members. The Chair person needs to be available in the evenings for planning meetings and sporadically during the school days of the event.
- Committee Member opportunities to help: There are 3-4 committee meetings to determine theme, dates, and who is doing what. Opportunities include: minute counters during the event (starts at 8am and any amount of time people can help is wonderful), making posters, decorating the media center window, writing a skit to get the students excited about reading, purchasing supplies for students (i.e. folders, stickers), designing read-a-thon forms, and deciding and purchasing prizes. (costs for supplies/prizes will be reimbursed with pre-approval of PTSA).
About the 2012-2013 school year Read-a-thon:
Theme “All-Stars!”
Reading and pledge collection will start on Sept. 7th and ended on Sept. 21st.
Click here to see all info and stats!
About the 2011-2012 school year Read-a-thon:
Theme “Reading is a Treasure, Books Arrr Great!”Reading and pledge collection started on Sept. 8th and ended on Sept. 23rd.
Mr. Rachlin, Dr. Dickerson and Ms. Akos presented a pirate skit for the kick-off and for the awards ceremony on Oct.6th.
Grand Prize: iPad2
546 out of 604 students participated in reading = 90.4%
231,062 minutes read total! Our goal was 150,000 minutes.
13 classrooms had 100% participation.
About the 2010-2011 school year Read-a-thon:
Theme “The Kingdom of Reading”
Reading and pledge collection started on Sept. 2nd and ended on Sept. 17th.
Grand Prize: 2 iPod Touch
367 students participated
2 classrooms had 100% participation.
Theme “All-Stars!”
Reading and pledge collection will start on Sept. 7th and ended on Sept. 21st.
Click here to see all info and stats!
About the 2011-2012 school year Read-a-thon:
Theme “Reading is a Treasure, Books Arrr Great!”Reading and pledge collection started on Sept. 8th and ended on Sept. 23rd.
Mr. Rachlin, Dr. Dickerson and Ms. Akos presented a pirate skit for the kick-off and for the awards ceremony on Oct.6th.
Grand Prize: iPad2
546 out of 604 students participated in reading = 90.4%
231,062 minutes read total! Our goal was 150,000 minutes.
13 classrooms had 100% participation.
About the 2010-2011 school year Read-a-thon:
Theme “The Kingdom of Reading”
Reading and pledge collection started on Sept. 2nd and ended on Sept. 17th.
Grand Prize: 2 iPod Touch
367 students participated
2 classrooms had 100% participation.
