Meet the challenge!
Join the CAC elementary and middle schools as we collectively read one million minutes this year!How are we going to do this?
All students, parents, and teachers at CAC's ES and MS are invited to log the time they spend reading on this Google form, which will be posted on the CAC Dashboard as well as on ES blogs, including this one. You will need to log in to the CAC website with your CAC Single Sign On.Why are we doing this?
The goals of the Million Minutes of Reading Challenge are to:
- build community by working towards a common goal
- help our students build reading stamina
- provide motivation for our reluctant students
- highlight the importance of teachers and parents as reading models
Also, we will have a celebration when we reach our goal. ;-)
When do we start?
Tuesday, October 26. There will be an announcement on CACN. The form will be available before that for practice, but it will be cleared at 7:30 am on October 26, and set fresh to start the counting.
How will we know how far along we are?
There will be an electronic progress indicator on the CAC dashboard, and we will also have a paper indicator on the CAC campus.
What counts as reading?
Any type of sustained reading counts: reading for homework, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, listening to a read-aloud in class or at home. As long as you are reading for a sustained amount of time and you are making meaning of what you read (i.e., you understand), that counts.
Can we read in languages other than English?
We want you to read in any of the languages that you know and can understand, so reading in your mother tongue or in another language in which you can read and comprehend counts too. We have a large collection of books in Arabic in the library, and we also have books in many of the languages our community speaks.
How much time will each of us have to read?
Most students in the elementary school already have 20 minutes of reading for homework. Log those and any other reading you do.
How long will this take us?
We've calculated that if only the 313 elementary students join the challenge, each would have to read 53 hours. Since every student reads 20 minutes for homework a day, and there's at least 20 minutes of reading at school, that comes out to about 2 months and a half - not counting weekends. But, teachers, parents and the middle school will be joining us, so we're hoping we'll be done much sooner.
What about parents?
Parents, we're counting on you reading too. Be sure to count the time you spend reading aloud to your children at home. That counts double: the parent can log in the time they spend reading out loud and the children can log in the time they spend listening to the read aloud. To log in minutes as a parent, find the homeroom or advisory of one of your children. It will be added to the total for that homeroom or advisory. If you have more than one child, you may want to alternate.
What if I'm not a student, teacher or parent, but I still want to join the challenge?
Log your numbers under library in the homeroom/advisory list.
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