Two BW students Summer Reading Olympics Champions

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Two Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict ele­men­tary school stu­dents have been selected as myON Reader’s 2012 Sum­mer Olympic Read­ing Champions.

Big Wal­nut Ele­men­tary School stu­dent Samuel Fujii and Tehya Warner from Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School each received a 2012 Sum­mer Read­ing Medal of Honor.

Fujii and Warner were among 26,000 stu­dents nation­wide who each read 10 books or more from June 1 through August 15 on myON; over 1.2 mil­lion books were read dur­ing the sum­mer program.

Over 1,450 schools par­tic­i­pated in the myON sum­mer pro­gram, and when indi­vid­ual student’s read­ing time was added up, par­tic­i­pat­ing stu­dents spent 17.5 years reading.

The online myON reader is a per­son­al­ized lit­er­acy envi­ron­ment that engages stu­dents at all read­ing lev­els by pro­vid­ing the largest inte­grated library of dig­i­tal books. The over 2,000 and grow­ing enhanced dig­i­tal books include read­ing sup­ports, and are rec­om­mended to stu­dents based on indi­vid­ual inter­ests and read­ing level using The Lex­ile Frame­work for Reading.

The myON web­site notes that giv­ing stu­dents the oppor­tu­nity to choose what they want to read, in a dig­i­tal envi­ron­ment in which they are com­fort­able, moti­vates them to become bet­ter and more con­fi­dent readers.

Posted by Gary Henery on Nov 14 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.