TPES Book It! Challenge

The TPES Book It! Challenge is a reading motivation program. At TPES, we want to motivate our students to read and develop a lifelong love of reading and literacy. In the Book It! Challenge, students can earn various prizes, rewards, and even free pizza from Pizza Hut while they read. The program runs from October 1st-March 31st each year. Please check out the links below for more information on how the Book It! Challenge works. Good luck students and happy reading!

TPES BOOK IT! Challenge Information and Incentives

Tellico Plains Elementary School Book It! Challenge Incentives

2024-2025

Reading takes us on incredible adventures. The Tellico Plains Elementary School (TPES) Library and Pizza Hut Book It! have teamed up to promote reading and the fun adventures reading provides to TPES students. The goal of this program is to motivate students to read and to instill a lifelong love of reading in TPES students as they take the Book It! Challenge. Students will be rewarded with incentives for their work in the TPES Book It! Challenge program during designated, announced times throughout the school year. The following are the incentives for the Book It! Challenge program at TPES for the 2024-2025 school year:

How It Works
Reading goal challenges will take place by season from October 1st-March 31st, for a total of three reading challenges. There will be a Fall Reading Challenge October 1st-November 30th; a Winter Reading Challenge from December 1st-January 31st; and a Spring Reading Challenge from February 1st- March 31st. For each of the three challenges, students will receive a reading log on which to track his or her progress toward his or her reading goal for each challenge. The goal is for students to read a total of 30 books during each challenge: 30 books in the Fall Challenge, 30 books in the Winter Challenge, and 30 books in the Spring Challenge . If the book is a picture book, one picture book equals one book. If the book is a chapter book, one chapter equals one book. Students may read the books on their own, with someone, or someone may read to the students. Students may read books from home, the school library, the public library, online books, ebooks, audiobooks, etc. Students may also read periodicals, such as magazines, newspapers, etc.

Individual Awards and Grand Prize Drawing for Meeting Reading Challenge
• At the end of each reading challenge, if a student completes all of the reading goal challenge for that particular season, logs their reading, gets the reading log signed by a parent/caregiver, and turns the completed reading log into his or her teacher, he or she will receive: a Cub Cash from Dr. Debity as well as a Book It! coupon for a free personal pan Pizza Hut pizza from Mrs. Standridge, and his or her name announced on the morning announcements.

• Throughout the school year at the monthly Student of the Month Program, a bonus prize will be awarded to students as part of the Book It! Challenge incentives. Each time a student completes a reading goal challenge, the student’s name will be placed in a prize drawing. At each monthly Student of the Month program from October-March, a student’s name will be drawn from the box to win a free book of their choice. These coupons will then be put back into the drawing for a chance to win a bicycle at the end of the school year. All coupons from the challenges will continue to accumulate throughout the school year. At the Book It! Challenge Awards Program in May, one boy and one girl’s name will be drawn from the box to receive a brand-new bicycle as an overall grand prize. So, the more reading challenges that a student completes, the more times his or her name will be entered into the drawing to win a bicycle.

Special Recognitions and Awards for Meeting All Three Reading Challenges
• As mentioned above, the reading goal challenges will take place by season from October 1st-March 31st, for a total of three reading challenges. Students who complete all three reading goal challenges will be recognized during the Book It! Challenge Program school-wide assembly in May. This is usually held in conjunction with the May Student of the Month Program. They will receive a certificate of recognition at the program as well as a book prize.

• Also, students who complete all three reading challenges will receive an extra treat/free concession item at the end-of-the-year Behavior Reward Day activity.

Class Award for Meeting Reading Challenges
At the end of each Book It! Challenge, the class with the highest percentage of students who complete that season’s reading challenge will receive an extra recess period.