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2015
Winter Reading Program
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DEAR EDUCATORS,
We are happy to announce the 2015 myON Winter Reading Challenge, What a World! Chill
with myON This Winter!, to encourage students to read over the holiday break and take
advantage of more than 5,000 books on myON. The program will run from December 18th
through January 4th. We will award the top school with a check for $500 based on the most
time spent reading during that period. To promote this challenge, we have created a Winter
Reading Toolkit. We encourage you to kick off the 2015 Winter Reading Challenge by sending
the take home flyer to families and informing the students of the challenge and toolkit before
they leave for holiday break.
The Winter Reading Toolkit includes the following materials:
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Educator letter
Family letter
Login cards to share students’ login information
At home activities for students
Poster to promote the challenge
Certificate
All of these materials and more are available on the Professional Development site (under
Reading Contests)!
For more information on the program, please visit our website!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
The myON Team
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DEAR FAMILY,
As a way to continue to cultivate a culture of reading within [INSERT NAME OF SCHOOL], we are happy
to announce the myON Winter Reading Challenge, What a World! Chill with myON This Winter!
During the winter break, students can read from the myON virtual library of more than 5,000 books
by accessing with a unique login and password. The digital books include valuable reading supports—
professionally narrated audio, highlighting, and an online dictionary. If your student doesn’t have login
information, contact your teacher.
We invite you to share in the excitement of myON this winter with your child and let them lead
you through the program. myON has thousands of books that cover all age groups, with fiction and
nonfiction titles ranging from scary & gross and sports to hobbies & how to. By encouraging your child
to read an extra ten minutes a day, you will have a powerful impact on your child’s reading success.
The top school based on the most time spent reading will be awarded a $500 check.
HAPPY READING!
The myON Team
Reducing the Reading Gap in Ten Minutes
Percentile
Rank
98
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
2
Minutes of
Baseline
Plus 10 Minutes
Reading Per Day Words Read Per Year Words Read Per Year
65
21.1
14.2
9.6
6.5
4.6
3.2
1.8
0.7
0.1
0
4,358,000
1,823,000
1,146,000
622,000
432,000
282,000
200,00
106,000
21,000
8,000
0
5,028,462
2,686,981
1,953,042
1,269,917
1,096,615
895,043
825,000
694,889
321,000
Percent
Increase in Word Exposure
15%
47%
70%
104%
154%
217%
313%
556%
1429%
Based on reading level, –300,00 words
Distribution of time spent reading books outside of school, with estimated word per year and projection of increased words per year if each child’s average daily
time spent reading were increased by ten minutes. Adapted from Adams (2006), with baseline data from Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding (1988).
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Cozy Up to A World
of More Than
5,000 Books!
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Cozy Up to A World
of More Than
5,000 Books!
Go to www.myON.com CHILL
and Start
WITHReadingTHIS WINTER!
Go to www.myON.com CHILL
and Start
WITHReadingTHIS WINTER!
School Name*: _______________________________________
School Name*: _______________________________________
Username: __________________________________________
Username: __________________________________________
Password: ____________________________________________
Password: ____________________________________________
*Begin typing your school name and select it from the drop-down.
*Begin typing your school name and select it from the drop-down.
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Cozy Up to A World
of More Than
5,000 Books!
@myONreader
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Cozy Up to A World
of More Than
5,000 Books!
Go to www.myON.com CHILL
and Start
WITHReadingTHIS WINTER!
Go to www.myON.com CHILL
and Start
WITHReadingTHIS WINTER!
School Name*: _______________________________________
School Name*: _______________________________________
Username: __________________________________________
Username: __________________________________________
Password: ____________________________________________
Password: ____________________________________________
*Begin typing your school name and select it from the drop-down.
*Begin typing your school name and select it from the drop-down.
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COOL FACTS!
1. The largest recorded snowman ever built was in Bethel, Maine, in
February 1999. 113-foot, 7-inch snowman.
2. Bismarck, North Dakota, holds the record for the most snow angels at
one time. On February 17, 2007, several schools joined forced to create
8,962 snow angels.
3. The average snowflake falls at about 3 mph.
4. All snowflakes have 6 sides.
5. Some animals possess the amazing ability to turn white during the
winter: the arctic fox, arctic hare, ptarmigan, barren-ground caribou, and
ermine all change colors.
6. Polar Bears do not hibernate.
7. The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over
time: some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur.
8. 40 percent of all bottled water sold in the world is bottled tap water.
9. 27,000 trees are felled each day for toilet paper.
10.Humans and elephants are the only animals with chins.
11. Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater with their
eyes shut.
12.Octopuses have three hearts.
13.There are more than 1,200 species of bat in the world and not one of
them is blind.
14.Dolphins shed the top layer of their skin every two hours.
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COOL FACTS QUIZ!
1. Which of the following is not effected by wind chill?
a. person
b. dog
c. car radiator
d. bird
2. What is the difference between sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
3. True or False. It must be 32°F or colder for it to snow.
4. On the average, one inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of snow?
a. 10 inches
b. 1 inch
c. 5 inches
d. a foot
5. What is more hazardous to trees and power lines?
a. One inch of wet snow
b. One inch of ice
6. How many times a year does the sun set and rise in the Arctic?
a. zero
b. once
c. 365
d. 730
7. What was the world record for the most snowfall in a 24-hour period?
a. 30 inches in Prince George, British Columbia
b. 54 inches in Waterville, Maine
c. 76 inches in Silver Lake, Colorado
d. 110 inches in Rimouski, Quebec
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Answers
1. c. Wind chill is the combination of wind and temperature and is
based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin such as that of
a person or animal. As the wind increases, heat is carried away
from the body at an accelerated rate, driving the body temperature
down. Wind chill has no effect on cars or other objects.
2. Hail is a chunk or stone of ice dropped from a thunderstorm. Sleet
is frozen rain. Freezing rain is liquid rain that freezes to a surface
such as the road or a tree.
3. False. It has been known to snow with temperatures in the mid
40’s. Temperatures are below 32°F up in the clouds where the
snow is forming.
4. a. 10 inches of snow melts down to about an inch of liquid rain.
5. b. An inch of ice is heavier than wet snow and is hazardous enough
to cause power lines and trees to come down.
6. b. once
7. c. 76 inches in Silver Lake,
8. b. In the Arctic
8. The largest iceberg ever recorded worldwide
was 207 miles long and 62 miles wide.
Where was it found?
a. Off the coast of Greenland
b. In the Arctic
c. In Antarctica
d. Off the coast of Baffin Island
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WITH
THIS WINTER
and Win
Your School
$500
myON winter reading challenge begins December 18th and ends January 4th.
myON will award $500 to the top school with the most time spent reading
during this challenge. Prize will be awarded in January.
LOGIN at www.myON.com
CHILL
WITH
THIS WINTER
and Win
Your School
$500
myON winter reading challenge begins December 18th and ends January 4th.
myON will award $500 to the top school with the most time spent reading
during this challenge. Prize will be awarded in January.
LOGIN at www.myON.com
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CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT
Reached his/her goal over the 2015 Winter Reading Program
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Principal/Teacher