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Pizza Hut is giving away one million free personal pan pizzas in honor of the 40th anniversary of its Book It! program: a reading initiative for students. Whether you are in or out of school ...
Pizza Hut launched the BOOK IT! program in 1984. For 40 years, students have been rewarded with a personal pan pizza for reaching reading goals.
[1] Publishers Weekly commented that the story was simple, and concluded that "amiable quality of Steig's easy pizza recipe will amuse chef and entree alike". [2] Similarly, Common Sense Media called the story simple, and stated that the artwork was a "light wash of watercolor", complimenting the illustration of the characters' faces.
The U.S. National Education Association named Maniac Magee one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a 2007 online poll. [24] In 2012 it was ranked number 40 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal , a monthly with primarily U.S. audience.
Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [3] and launched in 2014. [4]
Small books containing a combination of text and illustrations are then provided to educators for each level. [3] While young children display a wide distribution of reading skills, each level is tentatively associated with a school grade. Some schools adopt target reading levels for their pupils.
As Poppendieck recounts in her book, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, the original program provided schools with food and, later, cash to subsidize the cost of meals. But by the early 1960s, schools weren’t receiving enough to feed all their students, and many pulled out of the program.
A PowerPoint from Scholastic made in 2006 indicates that 39% of children between the ages of five and ten have read a Harry Potter novel with 68% of students in that age range having an interest in reading or re-reading a Harry Potter book. [23] For example, the ATOS reading level of {Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone} is 5.5 (with ATOS ...