Reading Olympics

Book excerpt: Make reading quality children's literature a fun, exciting activity for your students. Help your students discover an excitement for reading with this timesaving handbook that shows you how to create a reading competition in your classroom or school. First and foremost, this book is an exciting competition that teaches reading skills. Reading Olympics is a fast-paced game that pits small groups of students against each other as they compete by reading books and completing activities. Students practice reading for detail, main ideas, and making inferences. The activities in Reading Olympics teach both reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. This guide is a perfect handbook for any language arts teacher or librarian looking for a fun, timesaving way to help students enjoy reading and learn valuable skills. Reading Olympics includes: a complete Reading Olympics planning calendar and easy-to-follow teacher instructions, suggested reading lists of quality children's literature at each grade level, award certificates, all of the necessary forms needed for scoring and recording student progress, reading comprehension and critical thinking questions for students, and book summaries for teachers for the 48 books used in the competition. This book is much more than a set of activities; it is a complete, ready-to-use reading competition that can be used during a semester or throughout the entire year. Order Reading Olympics and let the competition begin! Grades 3-6