Summer vacation is upon us, and once again, the Maine Department of Education is collaborating with the Free Masons of Maine to sponsor the Read to Ride Summer Reading Challenge for students in grades PK-8.
If you read at least 500 minutes this summer, you qualify for a chance to win one of 48 bikes and helmets generously donated by the Maine Freemasons.
To complete the challenge, you must follow these three steps:
- Read (or for young learners, be read to) at least 500 minutes this summer – that’s 20 minutes a day for 25 days.
- Record your reading on your read to ride passport.
- Ask your parent/guardian to document your reading by signing your passport.
- Return your passport to your school principal by September 22nd, 2023.
Any school with students in the PK-8 grade span may register to participate. Participating schools will collect documentation from students who have completed the challenge. They will hold school-level drawings to select two students whose names will be entered into the state-level drawing in October 2023.
Schools are encouraged to participate in this challenge, coordinate it with any other summer reading challenges/programs they offer, and consider soliciting their own local-level prizes for students who complete the challenge.
Find details at the Read to Ride Challenge website and register your school at this link.