THE SCHOOL NAME
REACH FOR THE STARS
Reading Incentive Program
DATE-DATE
Starting ______our students will begin a two-week reading program called Reach for the Stars!!
Reach for the Stars is a reading incentive program designed to get our kids excited about reading while building their home library with exciting and educational Usborne and Kane Miller books as well as getting these great books for our classrooms. With back to school time in swing it seems like a good time to have our kids create a reading frenzy. All while having FUN!!!! We have set a school goal of ______minutes read. When the kids meet that goal I will ______.
Here’s how it works: Our Usborne representative will meet with the children to share about the importance of reading, explain the program and help them create a wish list of great books that they’d like to earn by committing to reading/being read to 30 minutes a day for 10 out of the 14 days. They will be asked to log their reading minutes for that 14 day period. Please encourage and help them with this. Reading for school as well as reading for pleasure counts!!
During this 14 day period please help/encourage your child to get sponsors (you, grandparents, relatives, and friends) to make a pledge to support their reading efforts. A flat pledge is recommended (i.e., $1, $5, $10 etc…) and the best part is that 100% of the money collected will provide new books for the kids and our school! How awesome is that?
•___% of your child’s pledge money goes directly to your child to select new Usborne Books for themselves and your home library.
•___ of your child’s pledge money goes for new books for our classrooms.
Reading logs, wish-list and pledge money will all be due on ______. We will tally the results, order new books for the kids based on pledges collected and celebrate our success. The new books your child has selected will be delivered back to school 2-3 weeks after the conclusion of the program
Further information will come home with the children on kick-off day. Thank you for supporting our Reach for the Stars program.
Sincerely,
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