Summer 2013

Beginning the 7th summer of motivating students to read, reducing summer slide, and putting books into the hands of our students

Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader!

Keep Seminole County Public School students reading over the summer break! Students who do not read in the summer can lose months of

reading development Those who continue to read gain reading proficiency

2013 GoalsRead Every Day and log minutes! Participate in the 10 Million Minute SCPS

Summer read for the world record challenge!

The Bookmobile will visit 12 weekly stops Monday–Thursday from June 10th – August 1st

(Except Thursday, July 4th)

Seminole County Public School students read!

Students use reading logs to record their reading

Reading logs are brought to the 2013-14 attendance school and entered into school drawings on two“Let’s Read, Seminole days” August 19th and September 16th

School winners are entered into a district-wide grand prize drawing Winners from the district drawing will be presented prizes at a

School Board meeting

Use Let’s Read “video” to promote enthusiasm

Distribute book logs and bookmarks

Show students how to access the Let’s Read, Seminole website and utilize various features

Include information on morning news shows, at PTA functions, and/or in newsletters

Remind students they have access to digital eBooks!

Students can visit the Seminole County Public School library Overdrive site at http://seminole.lib.overdrive.com

or the Public library at http://semcofl.lib.overdrive.com

Use a student ID or public library card to “Borrow” eBooks Read online or Download! Titles will automatically expire at the end of the lending

period

Available directly from the

SCPS Library Catalog

Copyright free books with

unlimited access availabl

e

Each reading log gives students a chance to be selected for a prize Prizes are not based on the total number of books read

School drawings will take place on Let’s Read, Seminole days, August 19th & September 16th Winners names must be submitted to the district by September 20th

to be eligible for the grand prize drawing

Grand Prize winners will be selected at the district level and receive prizes at the October School Board meeting

Invite students to participate in the Scholastic Summer Challenge

• The Summer Challenge invites kids to join their school team to log their reading minutes online as they Read for the World Record

• In 2012, more than 193,000 kids representing all 50 states and 32 countries read and logged an impressive 95,859,491 minutes

• The Top 20 Schools that read and logged the most minutes are listed in the 2013 Scholastic Book of World Records• Including Walker Elementary School - Seminole: 371,830

Invite students to participate in the Scholastic Summer ChallengeLog reading minutes at

http://www.scholastic.com/summer/index.htmAsk students to Read:

20-5-1020 min. per day5 days per week

10 weeks of Summer

100% Participation: 65 Million Minutes50% Participation: 32.5 Million Minutes40% Participation: 26 Million Minutes30% Participation: 19.5 Million Minutes20% Participation: 13 Million Minutes10% Participation: 6.5 Million Minutes

• Clear Channel Radio is our official media partner

• 8 powerful radio stations reaching 2.2 million listeners weekly

• Airing over 8,000 Summer Reading Messages across all 8 stations to help promote the Central Florida Summer Reading Challenge

• Links to Summer Resources on station websites Keyword: READ

John & LeslyeMAGIC 107.7

Johnny MagicXL 106.7

John Musa & Los AnormalesRumba 100.3

Bud Hedinger540 WFLA

Schools in Orange, Seminole and Osceola County will be participating in the Central Florida Summer Reading Challenge to read 40 Million Minutes!

sample PSA

Teacher site opens for classroom registration

Kids can begin entering minutes into Read for the World Record!

Scholastic Summer Challenge officially ends

Last day for students and teachers to retrieve minutes and print out Summer Challenge stats

www.letsread.scps.k12.fl.us