Ms. Snow has announced the 2013/2014 reading incentive program, “Wild About Reading.” Please read on for detail…
Dear Parents,
Finally it is time to announce the Library K-3 reading incentive program for this year at Bancroft School. This year we will be “Wild About Reading” using a jungle theme. Through this fun theme, we hope to encourage extra reading practice which will develop more confident and successful readers. Once again, we need your help to make this work!
Your child’s reading will be recorded in 15 or 30 minute sessions. The children will bring home a reading bookmark each week following their weekly library visit (or they may pick one up at any time at the Library circulation desk.) You may also print the bookmark from the PTO web site. This bookmark will act as a reading log which must be signed by a parent or caretaker.
For Kindergarten and 1st graders, students must read an hour (4 fifteen minute blocks) outside of school in order to complete a bookmark. For 2nd and 3rd graders, students must read for 2 hours (4 half hour blocks) in order to complete a bookmark. When the completed and signed bookmark is returned to the Library, your child will be able to add wild animals to their class Wild Reading Preserve. The classroom “Wild Reading Preserves” will be displayed on the walls and bookcase ends in the Library. As the children read, they will be able to monitor their progress by watching their preserves fill up with animals!
Individual students will be recognized for their reading accomplishments as well. Starting with 10 bookmarks, the students will add animals to our Wild About Reading mural. For 10 bookmarks, they will add a monkey; 25 will add a giraffe; 50 a zebra; 75 a lion; and 100 an elephant.
Every type of reading counts. Your child may read independently, may be read to, or may listen to an audio book. The material read may be fiction or non-fiction. The important goal is to have every child reading outside of school as much as possible.
Please sign off on the bookmark each time that your child completes a block of reading. When the bookmarks are brought back to the library, the Nature Preserves will be stamped with animals. There is no limit to how full your child’s classroom Nature Preserve can get. We are always happy to expand the limits of the Reading Preserves for extra reading!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Nancy Snow
School Librarian
NSnow@aps1.net