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During the summer of 2014, my then 7th grade daughter opened my eyes to the world of BookTubers and the Book Tube-a Thon. For 4 days she sat glued to her social media accounts and her stack of "TBR" (to be read) novels. As she enthusiastically read, Tweeted, Instagrammed, and YouTubed book after book during this event, it dawned on me that we should introduce student readers (especially the reluctant ones) to this 21st century social reading extravaganza.
The first attempt at this was during the aforementioned daughter's activity period class where she and her classmates tweeted using a private, classroom only, Twitter hashtag about the individual books they chose to read. Each day a different student hosted a question or two for the class to independently respond to on the social media platform.
Fast forward to March 2016. Amy Kneller from Plymouth Middle School in Plymouth, MA teamed up with my middle school to respond to "reading challenges" that I tweeted during Read Across America Day. You can look at the day long twitter feed by searching for #PSEPMSRead (Plymouth South, East Prairie, Middle Schools READ). Here is the LINK.
December 16, 2016 we were joined by classrooms across the United State for a great day of winter reading and tweeting. You can see those tweets and challenges at #gsrat16. Here is the LINK.
We also hosted an event this past spring, on May 5th, in which we used #gsrat17! Here is the LINK. In December of 2017, we did it again. This time we used #gsrat2017 which you can see here.
In 2018 we hosted the event on November 19th. You can see that series of interactions on Twitter here where we used #gsrat18.
On November 25, 2019 students participated using the #gsrat19 in their tweets!
It is now 2021 and we are ready to do it again, Friday, December 10th!
Here is how it works.
1.) Choose a book you would like to read. (Yes...ANY BOOK...and NO...you all don't have to read the same thing. That's what makes things interesting!)
2.) Follow the Twitter hashtag #gsrat21 (Global Student Read-a-Thon 21) and the Twitter Handle - @globalreadathon
3.) I will begin posting challenges at 7:30am Central Standard Time
4.) You hop on Twitter throughout the day when you can and allow your students to read and respond to the challenges. You can allow them to tweet using their own accounts, or feel free to make a classroom account and tweet for them. You can choose your comfort level here!
5.) Make sure you use the hashtag so I can see your posts.
The first attempt at this was during the aforementioned daughter's activity period class where she and her classmates tweeted using a private, classroom only, Twitter hashtag about the individual books they chose to read. Each day a different student hosted a question or two for the class to independently respond to on the social media platform.
Fast forward to March 2016. Amy Kneller from Plymouth Middle School in Plymouth, MA teamed up with my middle school to respond to "reading challenges" that I tweeted during Read Across America Day. You can look at the day long twitter feed by searching for #PSEPMSRead (Plymouth South, East Prairie, Middle Schools READ). Here is the LINK.
December 16, 2016 we were joined by classrooms across the United State for a great day of winter reading and tweeting. You can see those tweets and challenges at #gsrat16. Here is the LINK.
We also hosted an event this past spring, on May 5th, in which we used #gsrat17! Here is the LINK. In December of 2017, we did it again. This time we used #gsrat2017 which you can see here.
In 2018 we hosted the event on November 19th. You can see that series of interactions on Twitter here where we used #gsrat18.
On November 25, 2019 students participated using the #gsrat19 in their tweets!
It is now 2021 and we are ready to do it again, Friday, December 10th!
Here is how it works.
1.) Choose a book you would like to read. (Yes...ANY BOOK...and NO...you all don't have to read the same thing. That's what makes things interesting!)
2.) Follow the Twitter hashtag #gsrat21 (Global Student Read-a-Thon 21) and the Twitter Handle - @globalreadathon
3.) I will begin posting challenges at 7:30am Central Standard Time
4.) You hop on Twitter throughout the day when you can and allow your students to read and respond to the challenges. You can allow them to tweet using their own accounts, or feel free to make a classroom account and tweet for them. You can choose your comfort level here!
5.) Make sure you use the hashtag so I can see your posts.