School Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! January 23-27, 2017

Adams Ongoing Events Teacher read-alouds on the morning show Daily reading trivia for prizes Monday, Jan. 23 Recognize Literacy mentoring students on morning show Tuesday, Jan. 24 Literacy/ Standards night for students, parents, & faculty. Wednesday, Jan. 25 Poster making contest Thursday, Jan. 26 “Caught Reading” Day: Students get “stickered” when caught reading by Mr. Beauregard, Mrs. Fedele or Mr. Floyd throughout the day. Students will receive cookie coupons and jump passes for use in the cafeteria. Friday, Jan. 27 Kick Up Your Heels and Read! (Wear bright, colorful, or silly socks to show support for literacy.)

Barrington Daily book talks and book trivia on the morning show. Bonus "Lightning Strikes" awarded for Caught Reading program all week. School-wide D.E.A.R. time and/or teacher read alouds during "team time" periods "Buddy reading" scheduled for interested teachers' classes with elementary classes from Stowers. SLAM program kick-off with media specialist. Rolling In-Service for all teachers on 1/23 focused on "Author's Craft and Structure" "Literacy Changes Our World" bookmark contest with judging on Thursday 1/26 and winners announced on Friday 1/27 ("Lightning Strikes" awarded for participation and special prize for top 2 bookmarks with bookmarks printed for distribution in the media center)

Burns MS Ongoing Activities • morning show literacy videos • morning show novel quote contest • book swap collections

Monday, 1/23 - Burns SLAM Showcase Tuesday, 1/24 - Barnes and Noble Bookfair and Mini Maker Faire Wednesday, 1/25 - Book Swap Thursday, 1/26 - Book Swap Friday, 1/27 - Read Around the World Day

Coleman MS

Coleman Middle School creates a “Favorite Books and Authors” display window in the Media Center. Students and teachers are encouraged to write the title of their favorite books and/or authors on a sticky note. The sticky notes are displayed on a large window by the student entrance door so that all students and teachers have the opportunity to view the many varied titles and authors. We also plan to conduct student and teacher book talks throughout the week.

Davidsen We will be doing our 1,000 book give away. We call it the great American Book Giveaway. We try to give each student a book. We will be giving out prizes for getting caught reading. The sixth-grade language arts teachers, Ms. Uriarte and Ms. Graves are having the students make questions and answers to go with all of the classroom books that will have been read up to winter break. They play Jeopardy with teams and the students earn points and at the end, the students wager the points just like in final Jeopardy. Ms. Kott's class will begin writing letters to students in Italy to match their study in Rome. There will be a bookmark design contest in the media center. Our tech teacher, Ms. Moumne is having every student create a book trailer in early January that follows the SLAM guidelines. The media specialist, Ms. Supple, and I are having a SLAM showcase. I am doing read alouds and poetry readings through out the building all week. Davidsen Celebrates Literacy!

Dowdell Monday, January 23th

1. Mr. Stanley kicks off literacy day on the morning show 2. Begin door decorating contest 3. School-wide DEAR first 10 minutes of each class 4. Post article for parents on literacy day on the website 5. Begin Myon Contest

Tuesday, January 24th

1. Teachers, look for an article in your email on why reading aloud to adolescent students is important 2. Share your favorite book with students 3. Book Swap (bring a book to trade)

Wednesday, January 25th

1. Apply for a free public library card in our library all day! Parents and Students Welcome!

2. Virtual Library Scavenger Hunt (sign up)

Thursday, January 26th

1. Come to the Reading Cafe for stories and cocoa in the library all day! (sign up) 2. Content Area Teachers- take two minutes to tell your class why literacy is important in your field!

3. We will conduct Caught Ya Reading where ANYTIME you see a student reading something not being done as a class the students will get tickets and place them in a bin found in the media center.

Friday, January 27th

1. Myon Project Celebration (Media Center 7th period) 2. Judging Door decorating contest (6th period)

Eisenhower

Celebrate Literacy Week, Eisenhower!

January 23-27, 2017 Check out our activities: ¨ Create your own bookmark! ¨ Teachers love to read too! Play “Guess the teacher” in the media

center ¨ Reading Trivia Contest of the day: Tune into the morning show to

play! ¨ Get caught reading! Tickets will be handed out throughout the week by

staff members that catch students reading. Students can turn tickets in to the media center to get a treat!

Monday, January 23th Reading rocks with crazy socks! Wear your bright, colorful crazy socks to school to support literacy!

Tuesday, January 24th Graphic Novel day! Wear black and white to symbolize graphic novels!

Wednesday, January 25h Reading makes us winners! Wear your favorite team shirt.

Thursday, January 26h Support Eisenhower Reading by wearing Red, White or Blue

Friday, January 27th Dress like your favorite book character (School appropriate only—no masks )

Ferrell MS Monday: Announce Read Theory Challenge Winner Library Card Raffle Tuesday: Reader's Theater (lunch) Wednesday: Create Book Cover Winners will win gift cards to Barnes and Nobles. Thursday: Bookmark Contest on the back of 3 Key Ideas and Details Question Stems Mass copies of the winner will be handed out as bookmarks in the Media Center. Friday: Dress up as your favorite book character.

Franklin Middle Magnet

Daily activities: Reading in the auditorium in the morning SLAM projects on display in the media center Book drive for Goodwill BookWorks (also the service project) Raffle tickets every time a student completes a Reading Counts quiz

Friday, Jan 27th - FAIR AP2 Incentive (field day) Greco MONDAY Book Tasting (with doughnuts and juice)

Book Drive for Metropolitan Ministries Book Blogs through Edsby

TUESDAY Blackout Poetry Spoken Word Poet Guest Visit (tentative) Poem in Your Pocket Day Book Drive for Metropolitan Ministries Book Blogs through Edsby

WEDNESDAY SLAM Showcase Craig Woodard (Tentative) Local Author Book Drive for Metropolitan Ministries Teacher Read Alouds in every classroom every period Book Blogs through Edsby

THURSDAY SLAM Showcase AVID Students Volunteering to Read @ Metropolitan

Ministries Elementary School Book Blogs through Edsby

FRIDAY SLAM Showcase Book Blogs through Edsby

Jennings JENNINGS MEDIA SHOWCASE CONTEST Students will have the options of: * Building a 2D Image as a book report project. * Constructing a powerpoint presentation. * Constructing an online Book Trailer.

The top 4 winners will be able to attend the "SLAM" in which they can participate in viewing other student's projects and meet authors for book signings. All teachers will be issued, "Caught -You- Reading," tickets to distribute to students whenever they are "caught" reading. a. We will have drawings and give away prizes. We will also have Cocoa and reading during HR. (Criteria TBD)

Mann Monday, 1/23/17 - Bookmark contest- Students will receive a template in homeroom to decorate a message to encourage fellow students to read. The submitted bookmarks will be judged and the winner will receive a $15 gift card and copies of their bookmark will be available in the Media Center. Tuesday, 1/24/17- During lunch students will decorate a star with the name of a favorite book they’ve read this year and Mann will design their own “book galaxy”. Wednesday, 1/25/17- Star “books”- Students will gather before school to read in the Media Center and sip hot chocolate and eat treats. Thursday, 1/26/17- “Guess Who’s Reading” segment. Students will have to guess the various pictures of teachers reading a book that covers their face. The pictures will air on the Morning Show and the homeroom that emails Mrs. Scaglione with the correct responses will win a prize. Friday, 1/27/17- Dress like your favorite “book character”. Students are encouraged to dress appropriately like their favorite book character. Wally B. Jennings “Spoken Word” Presentation and writing workshop for selected reading students.

Marshall Every day – Caught Reading in Homeroom (Candy treat) Monday & Tuesday – Students Guessing Teachers Reading Game in Media Center and on the Morning Show Tuesday & Wednesday – Book Swap in the Media Center. In the front for students and in the back for teachers. Wednesday – Answers given for Teacher Guessing Game and prizes awarded per grade level on Morning Show. Redesigned Book Cover Due Thursday – Art Show Voting in the Cafeteria of the Redesigned Book Cover supported by Griffin during all 3 lunches Friday – LA & Reading: Read & Feeds

*Ask teachers to think of books that they can tie in to their curriculum that week. Griffin will be there for lesson plan support the week before on a specific day Explanations: Students Guessing Teachers Reading Game: We will have pictures of 15-20 teachers holding their favorite YA book up to their eyes. The students will cast their predictions of who the teachers are. Book Swap: Mrs. D and Griffin will add books to both tables to start the swap. Then students and teachers can stop by the MC in between classes to swap one of their books for a book on the table. Redesigned Book Cover – We will advertise the week prior to have students redesign any book cover from the media center. We will have the original book cover and the redesigned cover on taped to a box and the students will be able to vote during lunch for the cover they think is the best redesigned cover.

Martinez MS

Martinez Middle School Literacy Week 2017 Plans for the Week

• Monday Kick-Off – read a short story to faculty and students on the morning show. Everyone watches a video on the Holocaust to kick off our “One Book, One School” during homeroom for 20 minutes. We will be reading a book from MyOn relating to the Holocaust which will be chosen soon which ties to the 8th grade study on the Holocaust. This book will benefit all students because they will be studying the Holocaust at some point and it’s important to teach our students about our history.

• Secret Genre – students caught reading the secret genre of the day go in a drawing for

a gift (one drawing a day) I will e-mail teachers the genre of the day each morning. TEACHERS PLEASE REMEMBER THE GENRE EACH DAY SO THAT YOU CAN KEEP A RUNNING LIST OF STUDENTS THAT CAN BE E-MAILED TO ME OR SENT TO ME ON A PIECE OF NOTE PAPER.

• Teachers and Students on the Morning Show will tell about a book they are reading –

Tue-Fri • Students in 7th/8th grade Reading will have the option to do a graphic book report for

our “mural” which will display the Martinez “Best Reads” • Thursday - Teachers can dress up as a character from their favorite book which can

even be their favorite children’s book. The best dressed teacher will win a prize.

Memorial MS

Mulrennan Monday: Million Minute Reading marathon

Caught Reading school wide for prizes all week Guess how many books in our Media Center (contest) Amnesty Day in the Media Center Tuesday: Guest Reader on morning show Read-a-loud Promote book battle books all week StarBooks and hot chocolate in the Media Center Media Center opens early

Wednesday: Guest Reader on morning show Media center opens early contests continue Thursday: Guest Reader on morning show Guess how many books are in our media center contest winners announced Friday: Deputy Stewart Read-a-loud on the morning show StarBooks and chocolate Poetry Jam in Media Center all contest winners announced with prizes

Monroe MS

Our 4th annual Book-A-Palooza Celebration to Foster the love of reading for life!!!! The BOOK-A-PALOOZA competition reinforces common core standards: Story elements, Literary Devices, Analysis of Fiction & Non-Fiction, Speaking & Listening skills. Students will “show-off” their favorite book, individually, in small groups or by class, using Tri-fold Storyboards, Poetry Towers, Story Boxes on a String, or Shoebox Scenes. They can Dress in Character to: give a book talk, briefly explain what happened in the book , recite a few lines, and /or read a great scene (live performances on the stage) Each period LA & reading classes will rotate through the MPR to see the displays. Some pictures from last year are attached.

Orange Grove

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Book Swap Morning Show Students will introduce the “Book Swap” which will take place in the Media Center all week; students are encouraged to bring a school/age appropriate book to “swap” with a new/used book

Book Swap Teachers will send students with a book to “swap” to the Media Center for 5-10 minutes during ELA/Reading classes.

Book Swap Teachers will send students with a book to “swap” to the Media Center for 5-10 minutes during ELA/Reading classes.

Teacher Signage Teachers will display “What I Am Currently Reading…” signs in their classroom windows/doors with the title of the book they are currently reading. Tier 1 Intervention Students will DEAR during school-wide homeroom time.

Tier 1 Intervention Students will decorate their homeroom classroom doors with something related to the current book they are reading (creating a door collage) during school-wide homeroom time.

Administration Principal, AP, Lead Teacher, and other support staff will remain visual in the hallways and handout a piece of candy to students “Caught with a Book” to read on campus.

Thursday Friday Book Swap Teachers will send students with a book to “swap” to the Media Center for 5-10 minutes during ELA/Reading classes.

Book Swap Teachers will send students with a book to “swap” to the Media Center for 5-10 minutes during ELA/Reading classes. All leftover books will be donated to The Spring.

Teacher Signage Teachers will display “What I Am Currently Reading…” signs in their classroom windows/doors with the title of the book they are currently reading. Tier 1 Intervention

Students will decorate their homeroom classroom doors with something

related to the current book they are reading (creating a door collage) during school-wide homeroom time.

Rampello We will have a competition all week to see which class and which grade level can read the most pages. We tried this idea at the beginning of the school year and it was a gigantic success. We'll repeat the activity and connect it to the Celebrate Literacy Theme. School: Rampello K-8 Monday, 1/23: Guest Readers Tuesday, 1/24: Decorate Display Cases with reading themes, Bookmark contest Wednesday, 1/25: Design a poster of the book you are reading Thursday, 1/26: Author studies, Buddy Reading across grade levels Friday, 1/27: Character Dress Up Day for primary students, Guess that Book on the morning show

Students will also do book talks on the morning show.

Randall 2017 Randall’s Literacy week Every day: 1/23-27 door contest, student read alouds on the morning show, reading strategy of the day on the morning show, genera book inspired dress up Monday: 1/23 book marks in homeroom Tuesday: 1/24 “Love this book” book review bulletin board in homeroom Wednesday: 1/25 poetry museum in homeroom Thursday: 1/26 Friday: 1/27 door contest winner announced, poetry lunch read aloud Students show their Literacy Week excitement by… Monday: 1/23 Dr. Seuss shirt Tuesday: 1/24 Graphic Novel / Comic – DC or Marvel shirt Wednesday: 1/25 expert / biography Thursday: 1/26 romance / love – wear red or pink Friday: 1/27 mystery dress as a sleuth

Rodgers Students who check out a book during this week will be entered into a drawing for a prize.

Get caught reading in the cafeteria during lunch – get a ticket for a drawing to win a prize.

Design a book mark. Winner(s) will get a prize. Winning bookmark will be printed and available to students in the media center.

Create SLAM book talk video. Daily book talks presented on the morning show by students.

Design a poster about a SLAM book. Winner(s) gets SLAM book of their choice.

Have a “Star-books” celebration with hot chocolate. Students must have a book to enter.

Roland Park

Roland Park will be doing the following activities schoolwide throughout Literacy Week: Book Hooks - Students will write a short script explaining why other students should read their book (advertisement). Students will share their scripts in classrooms throughout the week. Independent Reading- Students will read for 25 minutes outside (picnic style). Teachers will arrange the details and fit this activity into through schedules at some point during the week. Buddy Reading with Partner Classes- Teachers will arrange with their Partner class to read with a buddy sometime this week. Students will record in their Reader’s Response Journals and discuss their goals.

Shields Shields Literacy Committee: Pat Allen, Dawn Simon, Lisa Gottman The following are the activities that we would like to do to promote literacy at Shields.

1. Door decorating contest: classes will decorate doors promoting Literacy. They can use a quote, favorite book, the theme or a book they are reading. Who? Every teacher that would like to participate When? Begins January 5 must be completed for judging by Wednesday January 25. Why? To promote reading and community throughout the school Prize: TBA

2. Silent Auction with Sailfish dollars: To promote literacy and PBIS Each department will be asked to donate at least 1 book that goes with their subject area so that all contents can promote literacy. Students will be able to participate in a silent auction using sailfish dollars during lunch periods. Departments: ELA, Science, Social Studies, Math, Reading, Electives and PE. Office will donate Adult books for teachers to participate with sailfish dollars.

Why? This will promote literacy in ALL subjects areas…we all teach reading thus can all promote it. We need all departments to participate! When? Thursday January 26, 2017 during lunches

3. Literacy Hat day: Who? All departments, teachers, staff & students! What? Make a hat that describes a vocabulary word Why? This will promote vocabulary words in content and just a fun way to visually depict vocabulary words. Teachers can give credit if they promote this in their content. ALSO…teachers should participate… When? Friday January 27, 2017 Prize: for teachers who would like to participate…hat needs to be dropped off in the media center after school.

4. SSR: Every day but Tuesday teachers/students will participate in SSR during homeroom. Academic Coaches etc. be checking rooms for participation. A token for participation will be given.

5. Daily theme/activities: • Monday: Make someone laugh Monday:

teachers/staff/students have a joke ready to share to start the week off with a Smile.

• Tuesday: Tell me Tuesday: Share a poem related to your content area with the students. Everyone shares a favorite poem teachers/students.

• Wednesday: Who said that Wednesday? Share a quote from a famous person and discuss its meaning and why it is important.

• Thursday: Throw-back Thursday. Share your favorite children’s book with your students. Read aloud to them. Why is/was it your favorite. Have students share their favorite children’s book.

• Friday: Literacy Hat day! See above. Talk about your vocabulary word and why it is important.

Sligh Middle Magnet

Monday, January 23rd • Literacy Week Bumper Sticker Design

Students can create a bumper sticker that promotes a book they have read. The bumper stickers will be posted on the display wall in the media center. • Caught Reading Students caught reading will be featured on in the media center Literacy Week wall. Students will receive hero points and a sweet treat for being caught reading. Winners will be announced Friday on the Morning Show Tuesday, January 24th • Morning Show: Read Aloud by Community Leader • Literacy Learning Walks-teachers will take learning walks to

demonstration classrooms to support the school-wide focus of literacy strategies and engagement.

• 15 minutes of Silent Reading during reading class.

Wednesday, January 25th

• Morning Show: Read Aloud by Student Leader • All 7th grade classes take a trip to the Media Center • View book displays • “Books to Movie” game • Book “speed dating” activity • 15 minutes of Silent Reading during the reading class – We want to

reward students that bring their independent reading book to class. During this lunch please pass out 3 Cougar Bucks to each student that has their independent reading book.

Thursday, January 26th • Morning Show: Read Aloud by Teacher • All 6th grade classes take a trip to the Media Center *View book displays *Books to Movie” Game *Book “speed dating” activity • Mystery Skype Class discussion: 6th grade class will skype with a “mystery” class from another school to discuss an article both classes have previously read. • 15 minutes of Silent Reading during the reading class –Students that bring their independent reading book to class will be rewarded with hero points Friday, January 27th • Morning Show: announce winners for Books to Movie Game and Caught Reading • School-wide “Books to Movie” game • 15 minutes of Silent Reading during reading class.

Smith MS Monday, 1/23: Kickoff in Extended Homeroom- We will be launching our

competition today through homerooms. When students complete reading

using different programs (Myon, Zinc, Reading Counts, ReadTheory,

Axis360, etc.), they will recieve points on our virtual football field, working

toward a TOUCHDOWN! Each activity gets them 10 "yards" or a first

down on our football field.

Tuesday, 1/24: Reading Rocks - show your spirit by wearing funky socks

Teachers will begin handing out "caught you reading" coupons to anyone

they catch reading

Wednesday, 1/25: Wacky Wednesday - wear a Dr. Seuss themed shirt OR

any book-themed shirt

Thursday, 1/26: Wild about books! Wear camo or animal print top

Bookmarks go out at lunches

Friday, 1/27: Readers are college bound! Wear your favorite college gear.

Vocabulary competition at all lunches Stewart MS

Stewart Middle Celebrate Literacy Week Activities

All Week: Put Your Face in a Book: Come to the media center and get your picture taken reading your favorite book. The pictures will be added to a display in the media center.

All Week: “Guess Who’s Reading.” Students will have to guess the various pictures of teachers reading a book that covers their face. The pictures will be on a poster in the Media Center. Student with the most correct guesses wins a prize. Monday, January 23rd: DIY Bookmarks: We'll be making DIY bookmarks in the media center during lunches (and in the cafeteria too.)

Tuesday, January 24th: Stewart SLAM Showcase: Celebrate literacy all day! We'll be showcasing art work and book trailers made by our students based on the SLAM/SSYRA books.

Wednesday, January 25th: Get Caught Reading: Throughout the day, we'll be giving out prizes to students who get caught reading. There will also be goodies for every student who checks out a book (one per student).

Thursday, January 26th: Reading Coach will do a Read Aloud during 6th grade lunch time. “How cool is that!”

Friday, January 27th: “Guess Who’s Reading?” winner will be announced on the morning show. Students will be able to wear a shirt representing their favorite country and carry a book (story) from their country to share with other students.

Tinker K-8 Monday- Read with a buddy class Tuesday- Mystery Reader Day and school wide literacy night Wednesday- Author Skype Sessions (pending confirmation) Thursday- Kahoot Reading Trivia Thursday on the morning show Friday- Sunshine and Stories Students will also be tracking their minutes read throughout the week. For our literacy night students will be able to display literacy related projects or SLAM projects. We will have a book themed door decorating contest and, as a part of literacy night, students will go on a scavenger hunt to locate specific doors based on clues. Students will also cast their votes for their favorite doors. In the media center students will decorate strips of paper representing the spines of their favorite books and add them to our favorite books bookshelf display.

Turkey Creek

Turkey Creek Middle School - Celebrate Literacy Week!

January 23-27, 2017

Ongoing activities throughout the week:

• Teacher Read-alouds on the morning show! A different volunteer teacher will read aloud during the Morning Show all week.

• Guess the Mystery Reader contest in the Media Center…Teachers pose for photos of themselves reading a book, showing only their eyes and the book. All students may enter for a chance to win. Those who guess all teachers correctly will win special bookmarks. Contest runs all week, and winners will be selected Friday after school & announced on Monday January 30th on the Morning Show.

• Classroom door decorating contest to support the “Literacy Changes Our World” theme. Administration will choose one winner for each grade level, and one winner for electives on Friday. Winning homerooms will receive donuts.

Monday January 23rd – 20 minutes of school-wide D.E.A.R. time during the extended Homeroom. Students will create mini-posters to feature a character, setting, or moment in their novel for 10 minutes

after D.E.A.R. time. Students and teachers wear crazy, fun, colorful socks to support Literacy!

Tuesday January 24th – Top scoring MyOn and Reading Counts Readers’ celebration – hot cocoa, cookies, and teacher read-alouds in the Media Center.

Wednesday January 25th – SLAM Showcase in the Media Center.

Thursday January 26th – Harry Potter Day - Students and teachers dress (school-appropriately) as their favorite Harry Potter character, in celebration of the new Harry Potter book and play.

Friday January 27th – Student and teacher Book Swap in the Media Center during all 3 lunches. Students and teachers dress up (in school-appropriate gear) as their favorite book character.

Walker All week: Teachers and students will bew creating "Bookprints" to share with the rest of the school. A bookprint is a list of 5 books that have made an indelible mark on your life. Teachers will share their bookprints with their classes and students' bookprints will be turned in and displayed in the media center. All week: Guess How Many Books We Have In Our Media Center contest. Students will put their guesses in a jar in the media center and the student gets closest to the right amount will win a Barnes and Noble gift card. All week: I will be visiting our reading classrooms to do read alouds of popular children's picture books.

Webb

Williams January 23rd Teachers dress up as a literary character – read aloud in their classes

Contest – match the novel to the teacher who is reading (signs on teacher door with what book they are currently reading) Grade levels design literary bulletin boards to keep up for the month

ALL WEEK Book drive for elementary school Drop everything and read in homeroom all week

January 25th VIP readers – guest readers in classrooms January 27th Students dress up as their favorite literary character

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