Rockin’ Reading Race (Grades K–5)
October 1–31, 2018
2017 Winner: BJ Ward Elementary School
Read, log and win!
Bolingbrook elementary school students, are you ready to rock? Beginning Monday, October 1, register, read and log to help your school win the Rockin’ Reading Race! The three schools with the most minutes read will win a collection of this year’s Monarch & Bluestem Award nominees! All schools that participate will win a collection of STEAM/STEM books.
How to Participate:
Simply read for 300 minutes during the month of October. If you read for 300 minutes, you’ll earn a certificate and a prize and help your school. How can you help?
- Read at home
- Read at school during classroom read-alouds, quiet reading time or class visits from our Book Talkers
- Listen to a Playaway or audiobook
- Read to someone
Online registration and logging will be available below beginning Monday, October 1, or you may pick up a paper reading log from your teacher beginning that day. If you register online with your library card number or write your library card number on your paper log, you’ll receive 30 bonus minutes (you may only receive this bonus one time during the race)! All pages must be logged online by Wednesday, October 31. If using a paper log, it must be turned in to your teacher by Thursday, November 1.
You must have a Fountaindale Public Library card to participate. If you don’t have a card, register for one on the Bookmobile or at the library today! For more information, contact Outreach Services at 630.685.4230.
The Great Page Race (Grades 6–8)
September 10–October 29, 2018
Ready, Set, Read!
Bolingbrook middle school students, join us for the Great Page Race by reading to earn prizes for your school media center and classroom. The top three schools will win paperback book collections for their media centers. The winning classroom will receive a $100 gift card for a pizza party and a collection of the latest Rebecca Caudill nominees.
How to Participate:
Record the number of pages you read during independent reading time at home and at school. Classroom read-alouds or stories read as a class do not count. If you are reading a graphic novel, please log half the page count. For example, a 300-page graphic novel should be logged as 150 pages.
Online registration and logging will be available below beginning Monday, September 10, or you may pick up a paper reading log from your teacher beginning that day. All pages must be logged online (or your paper log must be turned in to your teacher or the Vortex) by Monday, October 29 at 9 p.m.
For more information, contact Randi Carreno, Teen Services Librarian, at 630.685.4175 or rcarreno@fountaindale.org.
This program is generously sponsored by the Friends of Fountaindale Library.