Teachers!

Sign up your class for Summer Reading

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It's nearly time for Summer Reading at Multnomah County Library. Our 2012 program begins June 15. This year teachers can sign up their students in grades K-8 for Summer Reading while they are still in school. Last year over 98,000 youth participated in Summer Reading - of those, over 73,000 signed up through their schools and started summer vacation with a Summer Reading gameboard in hand. By signing up students through schools, we accomplish two objectives:

We reach all students, regardless of economic or family situation, encourage them to read over the summer and let them know about the free resources available through their libraries.
We reinforce the message that reading for pleasure over summer break is critically important for success in school.

As you know, reading over summer break goes a long way toward maintaining reading skills so that students return in September ready to pick up where they left off in June.

How to Sign Up Your School

Like last year, we are signing up all students in a school (rather than on a classroom basis) and asking for the data to be submitted electronically in a database format.

To sign up your students for Summer Reading, please have one contact person from your school email a spreadsheet to Suzanne Harold at suzanneh@multcolib.org with the following columns: FirstName, LastName, Grade, School. Contact Suzanne at 503.988.3236 or suzanneh@multcolib.org if you have any questions or would like an Excel template. Sign up information must be received no later than Friday, May 11, 2012. Gameboards will be delivered to your school before the end of the school year.

The library collects the child's name, age, and school to verify that each student plays the game only once. This information is not shared with other parties, and at the end of the summer, all children's names are purged from the Summer Reading database.

If you choose not to sign up your students in this way, please know that all youth from birth through grade 12 may sign up at their neighborhood libraries starting June 15.

If You Have Questions or Comments

Please contact Summer Reading Coordinator Suzanne Harold at 503.988.3236 or suzanneh@multcolib.org.