Birkett Building Weekly Results

What is Wild About Reading?

Wild About reading is six week reading contest to promote reading and have fun as a school community. Students and/or teachers form teams of five to eight and track the number of pages they read each week. The team that reads the most pages wins, but there will be prizes for other categories as well. 

How do I get started?

  1. Find between 5-8 people (students and/or staff) to form a team.
  2. Choose a team captain
  3. Come up with a creative (and awesome) team name.
  4. Team captains sign up by accessing and filling out the team roster on Google Classroom.
  5. Everyone starts reading and recording pages read.
Graphics and Door Flyers
Directions for the Team Roster

What does the team captain do?

  1. Signs up your team by joining our Google Classroom and filling in the Team Roster.
  2. Acts as the official contact for the group.
  3. Enters team’s pages read in Google Classroom by Thursday at 3 pm each week.
  4. Checks in with group members, keeps the team motivated and reading.
Google Classroom Codes
  • Main Building Code: liyhb3  
  • Birkett Freshman Building Code: jhq2c4

What are the important dates?

September 17
September 17
September 24
October 1
October 8
October 9
October 15
October 22
October 25
Contest Entry Deadline
Record Pages
Record Pages
Record Pages
Record Pages
Author Fest
Record Pages
Record Pages – Final
Winners announced

What can we read for the contest?

Books. Young adult and up. Fiction or nonfiction.