Four winners of the Rome City School District myON Summer Reading Initiative were announced this month. The competition is hosted in partnership with myOn, an online literacy platform, and encourages pre-kindergarten through middle school students to compete against each other to see who read myON books for the greatest number of minutes over the summer.
The following students read the most minutes throughout the summer (July-August 31) and received an Amazon Fire tablet on October 6, 2022.
Top overall students:
1) Thomas Mann – 8th grader at Strough Middle School – Grades 6-8 2) Caden Salomon – 3rd grader at Gansevoort Elementary School – Grades 3-5 3) Peter Corigliano IV – 1st grader at Ridge Mills Elementary School - Grades K-2 4) Meredith Zarate – 4-year-old Pre-k program – Pre-K
RCSD Student Statistics:
· 6.44 K minutes read by all students · 925 different books were read · 71.6 average minutes per week per building
Top RCSD Schools of Reading Minutes:
1. Ganesvoort Elementary – 1,699.7 2. Bellamy Elementary – 1,327.4 3. Ridge Mills Elementary – 1,175.1 4. Denti Elementary – 1,023.4 5. John Joy Elementary – 679.7 6. Strough Middle School – 300.1 7. Stokes Elementary – 194.1 8. Clough Pre-K – 41.9
Top RCSD Weekend Readers Minutes:
1. Ganesvoort Elementary – 486.3 2. Bellamy Elementary – 297.7 3. Denti Elementary – 101.7 4. Strough Middle School – 79.2 5. John Joy Elementary – 21.8 6. Ridge Mills Elementary – 3.8
Top RCSD Readers Weekdays after 3 p.m. Minutes:
1. Ganesvoort Elementary – 655.7 2. Denti Elementary – 246.9 3. Bellamy Elementary – 216.7 4. Ridge Mills Elementary – 137.8 5. Strough Middle School – 67.3 6. John Joy Elementary – 62.7 7. Clough Pre-K – 41.9
All students who participated in the Summer Reading Initiative will receive a certificate and a prize.
