Aldine ISD Elementary School Students Taking Part in Citywide Read to Final Four® Competition

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Nearly 40,000 Houston-area students are participating in the contest that started November 7. Will your child’s school be the 2023 winner?

District elementary schools are participating in the literacy program hosted by the NCAA Final Four® and the Houston Local Organizing Committee (HLOC).

Read to the Final Four® is an initiative that inspires elementary school students in host cities to improve their reading levels and increase their achievement.

The program is also a reading contest to see which school has the highest reading average. The competition is set up like a March Madness tournament bracket, except it will be more like a March reading madness version.

The competition allows students to track all reading, whether ebooks, print books, or teacher/family read-alouds. They will record their reading times in the Beanstack reading challenges tracker app found in the Clever platform. Families can contact their child’s school library staff for more information.

Houston once again is hosting college basketball’s biggest event — the 2023 NCAA Men’s Final Four®. The Read to the Final Four® winning school will be named the citywide reading champion at the Final Four® celebration in downtown Houston in March 2023.

The NCAA and the Houston Local Organizing Committee hosted a pep rally in September at the Houston Public Library to kick off the reading competition.

The countdown is on! Read to the Final Four® started on November 7!

The tournament-style reading competition has third-grade students from each participating school working in teams and earning points based on the average minutes read. KHOU will air the Final Four games in 2023. The station has partnered with the NCAA and the HLOC on the Read to Final Four® event.

Top schools will advance throughout the rounds, winning prizes. KHOU is going to carry those bracket announcements.

This reading initiative started in Houston in 2016; it is the city’s fourth time hosting the Final Four®.

District Hosting its Own Contest for All Elementary Students to Participate!

Marco Zannier Virginillo, AISD program director of library services, is excited that all elementary grade levels will participate in the reading initiative this year. He will award prizes to the elementary school with the most minutes overall, including all grade levels. 

Questions

Families can contact their child’s school library staff for more information.

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