Registration opens Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:30 AM!
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If you are a private school or outside our geographic boundaries, please click here.

Reading Is Cool is a free and unique literacy program focused on public K-6 grade classrooms in Santa Clara County and southern Alameda County (Fremont, Newark and Union City), although private schools and schools outside of our geographic area are eligible for some elements.  It promotes the importance of reading while sharing the excitement and enjoyment of a good book.  Through a multifaceted approach that includes exclusive experiences and incentives, students are encouraged to succeed as individual readers and as a classroom team.

How does it work?

This program is designed for individual classrooms and runs from October through April, parallel to the San Jose Sharks regular season.  The best feature of the Reading Is Cool program is that it is easy to integrate and teachers make it fit their class' needs!  Every teacher who registers will be provided:

             A set of Top Reader of the Month medals

Students track the number of pages they read each month on Student Reading Logs downloaded from the Reading Is Cool website.  Teachers then report their class' total pages read each month online for consideration for class "team" prizes.  For the individual awards, teachers select the student each month they feel is most deserving based on number of pages, minutes or books read, most improved or greatest effort.  That's it! 

Along the way there are other elements to Reading Is Cool that you can read about in the links above.  They include Read-Ins, Private Practices, Top Reader Night and more!

Frequently Asked Questions 
Student Reading Log

For more information on the Reading Is Cool program, please contact ReadingIsCool@sjsharks.com.