Philadelphia Reading Olympics http://www.philadelphiareadingolympics.org A Citywide Celebration of Reading Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:04:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Welcome http://www.philadelphiareadingolympics.org/?p=406 http://www.philadelphiareadingolympics.org/?p=406#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:41:47 +0000 admin http://www.philadelphiareadingolympics.org/?p=406  

The Philadelphia Reading Olympics is coming soon!

Sample questions are now available for Intermediate and Middle School competitions.

If you’d like to support this wonderful program see the How to Help tab

To volunteer click here

Questions?

Contact:   Bonnie Stone at Philadelphia Reads, 215-279-7450 x 13

 

The Philadelphia Reading Olympics is a city-wide collaborative reading competition coordinated by PHILADELPHIA READS, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the School District of Philadelphia, the Archdiocese, and the City of Philadelphia.

The Reading Olympics engages fourth through eighth graders from Philadelphia’s public, parochial, charter, independent and after school programs in a reading competition. Teams of up to 12 students collectively read the books on the Philadelphia Reading Olympics book list and practice working together as a team to answer questions about those books.

The teams come together in May at an assigned college campus location to answer questions about the books. The teams accumulate points for every correct answer during three rounds of competition earning each team member a blue, red, or green ribbon based on the number of points their team has earned. Volunteers from area businesses join with members of the community to ask questions and keep score.

When the community, schools, parents and businesses come together, EVERYONE WINS!

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PhilaU earning a point

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A City-Wide Celebration of Reading!

The Reading Olympics program encourages students to share an enthusiasm for reading, and to learn collaboration skills through teamwork, while engaging in a citywide activity. The most important thing is that the Reading Olympics is fun!

Celebrate your students’ efforts, encourage them, model your love of reading, and demonstrate the power of teamwork.

We will be holding two levels of competition: Intermediate (grades 4 to 6) and Middle school (grades 6 to 8).

 

Registration for the Intermediate and Middle School Competitions are now CLOSED. All spaces have been filled.

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