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t's official: teacher registration for the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is open! Starting today, you can pre-register your students, access free classroom materials, and enter our teacher sweepstakes for a chance to win a classroom library!
New to the Summer Reading Challenge? Here's a quick overview. Now in its 9th year, the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is a free online/mobile reading program dedicated to stopping the "summer slide" by encouraging kids to read in the summer. Starting May 4, 2015, kids can log their reading minutes online, enter sweepstakes to win fabulous prizes, and earn digital rewards when they complete weekly reading challenges. This year’s theme is "Power Up & Read," sponsored by ENERGIZER®. The goal this year is to set a NEW reading world record, beating the 2014 record of 304,749,681 minutes.
Every year, students participate in the Summer Reading Challenge together on behalf of their schools, in hopes of becoming a top 20 school and winning one of the fabulous prizes (listed below). That's where you come in! Pre-register the students in your class now and they'll be all set to start reading and competing for their school on May 4th.
Teacher Registration
- Go to the Summer Reading Challenge website and login with your Scholastic credentials or create a new account. Once you've logged in, you can access your Educator Dashboard.
- Use your Educator Dashboard to add your class (or multiple classes—up to 99!). You'll be able to track your students' reading progress all summer long, and edit or print class lists as needed.
- Check out our handy How-To Guide for Teachers for more information.
Classroom Resources
- Free printables, like a reading pledge, reading log, and reading certificate to help your students make a commitment to read and stick to it.
- Free printables: book lists for all ages, "Power Up & Read" - themed printables, like the Innovation Machine printable and Innovation Story Starter printable.
- Letters to parents (in English and in Spanish).
Sweepstakes & Prizes
For Teachers:
- Teachers who register by June 30, 2015 can enter our Teacher Sweepstakes for a chance to win a classroom library! Enter here.
For Schools:
This year, there will be two grand prizes for the schools that read/log the most minutes:
- A school visit from Varian Johnson (middle school grand prize).
- A school visit from Michael Northrop (elementary school grand prize).
- Top 20 Schools (along with top school in every state) will receive a "Reading Plaque" to display at school.
- Top 20 Schools will be featured in the 2016 Scholastic Book of World Records.
This year's program has so much to offer your students, including new original content from their favorite authors like R.L. Stine, Jude Watson, Michael Northrop, Gordon Korman, and Maggie Stiefvater, an interactive online "Innovation Machine" game, plus tons of sweepstakes and virtual prizes to reward them for their reading.
Join today!
