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Beloit school offers movie trip if students read 12,500 books

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday, April 4, 2009 - 4:57 p.m.

BELOIT — A Beloit elementary school principal has an ambitious goal for his students.

Cunningham Elementary School Principal Robert Pickett has challenged his 284 kindergarten through fifth grade students to read a total of 12,500 books by the end of the year.

If they succeed, Pickett will take the students to a movie on the last day of school — funded through the parent-teacher organization and school budget.

Each classroom keeps a running tab of books read. A third-grade class already has achieved its goal, as well as fifth-graders who hoped to read 500 books.

Pickett started the contest five years ago when he was at McLenegan Elementary.

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sarasou2006
Apr 5, 2009 at 2:28 p.m.
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They may not expect "chapter books" but I'm sure some kids are reading at that level.

janesvillean
Apr 5, 2009 at 11:37 a.m.
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In the lower grades, it should be possible to read a book a day. Surely they don't expect (what the kids now call) "chapter books" before third or fourth grade.

brewerguy78
Apr 5, 2009 at 9:04 a.m.
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Wow that is 44 books per kid!!!!! Good luck with that

BostonBill
Apr 4, 2009 at 10:02 p.m.
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Way to go Principal Robert Pickett. Reading allows our imaginations to develop and blossom. Whatever positive steps are taken to cause students, and everyone else, to read more, is a good thing. READING IS GOOD.

AgainwithThis
Apr 4, 2009 at 6:53 p.m.
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Good for him~~I hope they do it!!

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