Sentences with word «readathon»

Filed Under: arts and crafts for kids, Book Based Activities for Kids, Motor Skills, Play Tagged With: animal, early literacy, summer, summer readathon Cerys Parker

Most Saturdays end up being readathon days, but this Saturday, you can read for a good cause.

The PTO at Grand Valley Elementary in Orwell, Ohio, had an all - year readathon of sorts: It reached a goal of having students read for 2 million minutes by the end of the school year.

And the annual March readathon at Franklin Elementary in New Jersey is part of a yearlong series of events to encourage and promote literacy, including a book swap / literacy night and book fairs at a local book store.

Lots of parent groups and schools organize readathons and other educational events like spellathons simply to promote literacy and learning, not as fundraisers.

And I'm hoping that for the October readathon, I can dedicate myself fully to the cause.

Filed Under: arts and crafts for kids, Book Based Activities for Kids, Play Tagged With: dinosaur, preschool craft, summer readathon, toddler arts and crafts Cerys Parker

Franklin Elementary in Lyndhurst, N.J., has students use an app to track their reading and books; at the end of the readathon event, students had tracked more than 44,000 minutes.

How to tally the reading varies — you can choose to count chapters, pages, or reading periods (minutes, hours, sessions), but the most common model for a readathon is to have students read as much as possible during the designated time period.

By the end of this 2 - day readathon I was actively casting the movie for this one in my mind because if it does not get picked up for that somebody is missing a sure thing.

I don't feel too bad about that because I was packing up to leave the apartment I've been staying in for the past 2 months, checked into a hotel and drove to a book event to go and listen to chat about books, but its not that great for a readathon is it?

RJ, Travon, when you going to start this readathon?