25 Books Campaign Fact Sheet - September 2007   (View 25 Book Campaign Goals)

Purpose

·         To increase love of reading

·         Students read at independent level

·         Students select books based on interest

·         Students foster the habits of good readers

·         To read one million words at each grade level (each student)

Why one million words?

·         Children learn to read by reading!

·         The more words read, the more opportunities to learn vocabulary

·         Vocabulary knowledge leads to reading comprehension

The program continues …

·         All students read 25 books (Standards-based)

·         Students sign a contract committing to read 25 books and record books read on their Book Logs (in Student Agenda Book)

·         All staff read 25 books and display titles on a list posted by their classroom door

·         Students display responses to the literature they read in ELA classrooms on 25 Books Walls (at least 5 books during the year)

·         ELA teachers will record and report monthly tallies for all students.

·        Students will receive recognition for reaching the benchmark of having read 25 books.

Our Goal for 2007-2008

·        To improve student reading comprehension by exceeding the number of books read during 2006-2007.

·        31,929 books read in 2006-2007

·        25,054 books read in 2005-2006

·        29, 390 books read in 2004-2005

·        27, 336 books read in 2003-2004