Greetings from the Library!!
Your student will soon receive their new SIA Reading Passport!! It is their ticket to exploring novel ideas, meeting new people, discovering other cultures, and losing themselves in magical lands!
Filling up the Passport is easy! Just select books- from the SIA library, your local public library, books you own or borrow- that meet the requirements for each category. Finish the book, jot down the title and a couple of thoughts about the book and you’ll earn the stamp for that category. Passports are "leveled" to accommodate emerging readers. Students may have books read to them either in school or at home! Audiobooks count too! Books must be read or listened to during the Passport challenge period (from when they receive their passport until May), books read in the past do not count. If you have questions about whether or not a book meets the challenge requirements, feel free to ask!
Students who collect the most stamps will earn the title of “Worldly Reader,” be featured on the Passport bulletin board, and receive a prize. You have until May to complete the challenges. There will be additional prizes for students who suggest and present "book talks" or "shelf talkers" and/or create and complete their own categories.
The Passports will live in the library. Students will be able to update their Passports and stamps will be issued during their weekly library time or during lunch recess on Thursdays.
If you have questions, would like to participate, or would like a list of the challenges, please feel free to drop by or email me at sschlitz@sauvieislandacademy.
