HCS Learning Commons video on the 2012 Readathon.

1. Read around the World!
HCS READATHON 2012

2. PARENT INFORMATION!
GOAL: A. To encourage your students to read from a variety of genre
outside of their regular school day.
B. To introduce your students to enjoy and become familiar with
fairytales, Legends, and classical literature from all over the world.
C. To introduce E books to our users and our new Overdrive features.

3. Discover authors
around the globe
To give you some ideas for reading different authors
and books from around the world, we invite you to
explore this amazing Delightful Children’s Books link.
Explore the list of books by age and take your student
on a voyage around the world

4. PRIZES and
How to!
• In order to be entered for a prize, each student needs to read the
minimum amount of minutes assigned for each grade.
• To be entered to win the grand prize for the Kobo E Readers, students
need to submit a book review to Destiny Quest at our HCS Library, based
on the minimum daily reading requirements. Two draws will be made for
the Kobo readers based on these criteria.
• Chapter gift cards to the value of $20, will be awarded to the student with
the highest score in each grade.
• All students will receive a Read-a-thon Certificate from their teacher.

5. PROGRAM DATES
• Monday January 23 – Friday 2nd March 2012
• Parents please keep track of your student’s reading times on the Google
forms, and make sure their reading is outside of class time. Please use
your discretion.
• MINIMUM READING REQUIREMENTS: Kindergarten 20 minutes daily.
Grade 1- 25 minutes. Grade 2- 25 minutes. Grade 3 and 4 -30 minutes. Grade
5 – 40 minutes. Grade 6 and up 1 hour.

6. Program
information
• At the end of the 6 week period Shandra, swiebe@onlineschool will tally
up your totals for final scores, and enter your students into the
draws, depending on whether they have met the minimum reading time
for their grade levels.
• **Please register at this document link to start the program.
• Here is a word doc for tallying your weekly minutes for your own
purposes. This does not need to be sent to the school.
• **To enter your weekly minute scores please complete the following
sheet at the end of the read-a-thon.

7. Read-a-thon Results
We look forward to seeing how our
students can read for their own
personal goals, along with the
educational benefits of learning how
other cultures live. If you have any
questions please contact one of our
library staff and we will be happy to
help. God bless you as you enjoy
reading with us