READ-A-THON
Join our 3 week Read-a-thon for children in Rhode Island grades K-8. Enter our reading challenge by signing up on RIDE’s website https://bit.ly/3jBDf3w. Join us on Monday July 27th at 3pm for a live Facebook event with us reading of the bi-lingual book The Jester Has Lost His Jingle by David Saltzman. You will earning digital badges as well as earning books and dolls to be given to hospitalized children.
After you sign up on RIDE’s website we will email you access to our online platform so you can log the time and books you read over the 3 week period. Read with a sibling, a friend, an adult OR on your own and write down the book titles and the number of minutes read each day.
Participants will earn a “Digital Literacy Badge,” and if you log up to 6 hours of reading you will earn a “Community Service Badge.” The students reading the most pages for their grade level will win a gift certificate to a local bookstore. Click on the event link to sign-up!