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= Welcome to the = =//**OLYMPIC READING CENTER**// = at Birch Meadow Elementary School in Reading, Massachusetts

= = =**OVERVIEW OF OUR SCHOOL'S 2010 READING INCENTIVE PROGRAM **=

Every year at the end of January, Birch Meadow Elementary School introduces a reading challenge to their students. Each year it is a different theme with different reading goals. This year, as the 2010 Vancouver Olympics start up, the students at our school will have their own Olympic events in which to participate. This year's reading incentive program theme is **//GO FOR THE GOLD! Be A Champion Reader//**. Student participants in our Olympic Reading Challenge can become champion readers and medal winners.

Our school will become an Olympic Reading Center. The five-colored rings in the official Olympic logo will each represent an Olympic Reading Event in our program. Each Olympic Reading Event will be completed when a participant reads the assigned total number of minutes required by their grade level reading log. After a Reading Event Log is turned into the school's library, the participant's name will appear on an Olympic Reading Event Championship plaque in the school's foyer. (The plaque color will be the same as the event ring that the participant just completed.) A participant who completes five Olympic Reading Events (5 rings) is then awarded a gold medal. Champion readers will be encouraged to earn as many gold medals as possible during this four week reading challenge.

At the end of the //**GO FOR THE GOLD!**// challenge on Friday, February 26, participants who were seeking gold at the time but did not as yet achieve it, but have completed four Olympic Reading Events (4 rings of champion reading), they will earn silver medals. Those who complete three events (3 rings) will earn bronze medals. //Example: Someone could earn a total of 2 gold medals and 1 silver.//

We hope everyone at Birch Meadow Elementary School will be wearing at least one medal when we celebrate our success on the National Education Association's READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY on Tuesday, March 2nd!

=PROGRAM BOOKMARK = Print and use to remind you of our school's reading challenge.