We are excited to announce that the Abingdon Read-A-Thon is back! This fun event encourages students to read & build literacy skills while also raising money for our school.
Here’s how it works:
- Read-A-Thon will run from March 13th - 24th
- Families will use Abingdon’s Read-A-Thon Link: https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/AwAipj/1 to sign up their student and create a reader page.
- Students and families can share their reader page with loved ones to request support in the form of online donations. Family & friends often enjoy encouraging your student to reach their reading goals!
- Once the Read-A-Thon begins on March 13th, students will read and track their reading minutes on their reader page.
What reading counts?
- All reading - both in & out of class - between March 13th and March 24th counts. Teachers will log in-class reading for students. Students will log additional non-classroom reading for themselves on their reader page.
- Lexia minutes will be added to classroom totals at the end of each week - no need to add Lexia minutes on the student’s reader page.
- Being read to by a friend or family member also counts.
- Reading aloud to someone else (younger sibling, pet, stuffed animal, etc.) counts. If the person being read to is also participating in the Read-A-Thon, it counts for you both!
Rewards and Prizes!
- All readers must set up their profile to log minutes and to be entered to win prizes!
- Students who set up their profile pages will earn a Read-A-Thon bookmark!
- Students will earn rewards when reaching 250 minutes, 500 minutes, and 1000 minutes!
- All participating students will be entered into raffles throughout Read-A-Thon to win special prizes, announced during Morning Announcements!
- Top readers in each grade will earn a special reward, and classes with the highest totals in each grade will be celebrated for their accomplishments with an exciting reward!
Important Dates:
- UPDATE: The Book Swap is canceled. Teachers and the literacy team will be making sure that your students have plenty of books to choose from throughout the Read-a-thon.
- Monday, March 13th - Read-A-Thon begins! Be sure your student’s reader page is active and ready to record reading minutes!
- Friday, March 17th - Read The Day Away is our celebration of reading at Abingdon. Look out for details about mystery readers in classrooms!
- Friday, March 24th - The Read-A-Thon reader pages will close at the end of the night! Log all reading minutes before midnight!
