PS 39 Read-a-Thon 2020
Monday, June 8 - Friday, June 12

Reading Challenge Participation Form (opens on June 12)

REad-a-thon challenge form

Read-a-thon Challenge Board
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Learn About the Read-a-thon

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Book Swap Opportunity

Have a book to give?  Want a book to read?  Use these padlets to find a way to share books during remote learning.  Organized by grade band.

​Kindergarten- Grade 1 Swap

Grade 2 and Grade 3 Swap
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Grade 4 and Grade 5 Swap

Write a Book Recommendation

Have a book to recommend to others?  Write about it on your grade padlet.  Plus this counts as a reading challenge!

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4
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Grade 5

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Adult Reading Challenge Board

Dear Families,

Every year, we look forward to the Read-a-thon as a way of reinforcing our connection with our families and students. The launch of the 2020 Read-a-thon feels even more important as we hope to offer activities, book suggestions, and events that will further engage our students, encourage excitement around reading, and create a school-wide community experience.

During this tragic time, with the inequities and injustices in our society at the forefront once again, we encourage our families to take this moment to support and extend the work that is happening in our classrooms through our “Mirrors and Windows” literacy project. Books can act as mirrors that reflect our own culture and help build our identity, and also as windows that offer a view into someone else’s experience. 

The goal of our “Mirrors and Windows Library Project” is to:

• Help our students develop their own identities by seeing themselves in the stories they have access to in school
  
• Help our students develop empathy for others by providing stories that allow them to have experiences from another person’s point of view
  
• Develop the ability to critically examine a story and the message that an author shares.
  
• Expand our classroom and home libraries so that they include a diverse range of characters, viewpoints, and stories.​
  

Your children will be given a challenge board filled with reading-related activities as part of the Read-a-thon.  We are providing parents with their own adult challenge board, too, with resources and activities to help families use books as a tool to further the conversations about race and social justice and to help us all develop anti-bias skills and become better allies.

Adult Read-a-thon Challenge Board