Welcome Package

Welcome! Thank you for registering for the Raptors 905 Summer Reading
Challenge with First Book Canada, Penguin Random House, and
sponsored by Tangerine. This package includes important information for
each student leading up to the challenge.

Over 5 weeks, you will be participating in the Summer Reading Challenge,

along with several other students from schools in your district.

Each participating student will receive 5 brand-new books to read over

the course of the Challenge, which will be available for pickup June 30th
and July 4th in Missisauga (details included).

This guide includes everything you will need to be successful participants

of the Raptors 905 Summer Reading Challenge.
Instructions for Students
Book Pickup Information
Book Report Guidelines
Reading List + Schedule
Important Dates
Contact Information
We are so excited about the Raptors 905 Summer Reading Challenge,
and we hope you are too. Get ready to warm up those reading muscles
this summer! 
Happy Reading!
Instructions for Students :
Welcome students!

We are so excited that you will be joining us for the Summer Reading
Challenge. Each week you will be tasked with reading 1 book to be
completed by the Friday of each week. Every Friday for 5 weeks, you will be
able to tune in to a virtual session featuring the author of the book you have
read that week + a special guest.

After the completion of each book, you will be expected to submit a book
report (of approximately 200 words) to First Book Canada to share your
thoughts and what you may have learned from each book.
How you demonstrate this is up to you. We have supplied suggested prompts
for the book reviews below to get you started, but we encourage
creativity in how you choose to communicate your comprehension and
thoughts about the books.

Instructions for how to tune in the virtual sessions will be provided by email,
sooner to the start of the Challenge.

Finally, we encourage you to document your experience with the Challenge.

Send us any photos if you'd like to be featured on our social media! We
encourage creativity; if you'd like to draw and share pictures of scenes or
characters from the books you are reading, please share them with us!
#905ReadingChallenge

Please email Sabrina, Reading Challenge Coordinator, at First Book

Canada if you have any questions over the course of the 5 weeks. Questions
can be emailed to yussufs@firstbook.org.

Happy Reading!
Your Friends at First Book Canada
Book Pickup:
Before the challenge begins, all 5 books will be available for pickup (for
free!) at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre only on June 30th and June 4th.

Where:
Paramount Fine Foods Centre Sportsplex
5600 Rose Cherry Place
Mississauga, Ontario, L4Z 4B6
Gate 2 Sportsplex

For detailed directions to the Paramount Fine Foods Centre Sportsplex

please visit:
http://paramountfinefoodscentre.com/directions-and-parking/

When:
Thursday June 30th: 2:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday July 4th: 2:00PM - 7:00PM

Please contact Safia at 647-244-5077 if you have any trouble finding the
entrance at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre.

If you are unable to pickup the books on your own, you are welcome to
send someone to pick them up for you - just inform Sabrina at
yussufs@firstbook.org.
Book Report Guidelines:
Book reviews are to be turned in every Friday to First Book Canada. The
following is a guideline for book reviews. Students can use this as a
starting point for their book reviews, or they can deviate entirely if there is
one element of the book they are most interested in writing about.
Suggested length of each report is approximately 200 words.

If students don't enjoy a book of any particular week, we would like to

hear why they didn't enjoy it. For example, they can write about what
decisions the main character made that they didn't like, why they didn't
like one of the characters, or what aspect of the story they might change,
etc.

Suggested Prompts:
What was your favourite and/or least favourite part and why?
Which characters would you like to meet in real life and why?
How did the story make you feel?
Would you recommend this book to a friend, why or why not?
What new things did you or the main character learn?
What surprised you?
What was one of your favourite words from this book, and what does it
mean?
Compare two characters from the book. How are they alike and how
are they different?
What is the main message of the book?
Draw us a picture of what you think a scene in the book looks like.
Write about why you drew this scene, who is in it, why you liked/
disliked this scene in the book, etc.

Students who hand in book reports for each title will have successfully
completed the challenge and will receive a certificate for their hard
work!

Book Reports are to be submitted at the following LINK. 

Reading List + Schedule:
Please read the books in the assigned order to line up with the Friday virtual
sessions. This summer's selection has a focus on recognizing representation in
reading and will encourage students to read books that reflect all voices and
stories.

Week #1 Week #2
The Witch's Apprentice Planet Omar: Accidental
Zetta Elliott Trouble Magnet
Zanib Mian

Virtual Session: July 15

Virtual Session: July 22

Week #3 Week #4
What Lane? The Secret Diary of Mona
Torrey Maldonado Hasan
Salma Hussain

Virtual Session: July 29

Virtual Session: August 5

Week #5
Book Reports
are due
A Wish in the Dark

every Friday:
Christine Soontornvat

Virtual Session: August 12

Submission Link
Important Dates:

July 2022
July 30th: First Book Pickup Day
July 4th: Second Book Pickup Day
July 8 - July 15: Book #1 Reading Period
July 15: Book #1 Virtual Session with Zetta Elliott
July 15 - July 22: Book #3 Reading Period
July 22: Book #2 Virtual Session with Zanib Mian
July 22 - July 29: Book #3 Reading Period
July 29: Book #3 Virtual Session with Torrey Maldonado

August 2022
July 29 - August 5: Book #4 Reading Period
August 5: Book #4 Virtual Session with Salma Hussain
August 5 - August 12: Book #5 Reading Period
August 12: Book #5 Virtual Session with Christine Soontornvat
August 30: Completion Certificates Sent & Final Wrap Up
Refer a Friend:
Link To Registration Form

If you know of a friend or peer in Grade 4, 5, or 6, that would like to

participate in the challenge, feel free to direct them to the following link.
They will have to obtain their own copies of the Reading Challenge titles
by purchasing them or borrowing them from their local library, but they will
be invited to "follow along" and attend our weekly virtual sessions.

Contact:
For inquiries about the program please contact:
Sabrina Yussuf, Special Events Coordinator, First Book Canada
yussufs@firstbook.org

For inquiries about First Book Canada or Raptors 905 please contact:
Heather Farquharson Executive Director, First Book Canada
hfarquharson@firstbook.org

Safia Hersi, Team Operations & Communications Coordinator,

Raptors 905 at MLSE
shersi@raptors905.com
For more information about First Book Canada, please visit:
www.firstbookcanada.org

Follow Along and Share on Social Media:

#905ReadingChallenge