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Read-Aloud 20: twenty books read to you
Twenty books read aloud to a little one, a patch of the reading quilt for each. For children who cannot read yet and their grown-ups.
The rules
20 books to the finish line, whatever the reader's age.
What counts. Any book a grown-up or an older brother or sister reads aloud, start to finish. The same favourite on another night counts again.
The finish. The twentieth patch finishes the quilt and earns the certificate.
Who it is for. Ages 2 to 6 and the grown-ups who read to them.
How the tracker works
- Pick your animal. Brothers and sisters each pick their own, up to six on one device, and nobody types a name.
- Tap Log a book and tap the book: a Peabody story at your level, a book from one of Peabody's kids' lists, a book from a series, or, with a grown-up, a book from somewhere else.
- Watch the picture fill. Read on more than one day in a row and the dots show your streak.
- Print the chart or your log at any time. The certificate lights up at the finish line, and only there.
Everything is kept on this device. Nothing a child logs is sent anywhere: Peabody counts that a book was logged in this challenge, and nothing about the book or the reader.
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Running this with a class or a club? Print the class wall chart (thirty readers, ten squares each) for the classroom version; the leaders' page has the sign-up sheet and the class log. Need a book? What should I read next asks three questions.