Becker PTSA President Ann Olson sent out a “Way to Go, Becker Students” message this week after posting the results of the 2015 Read-a-Thon, which she called “another successful Becker Schools reading program.”

 

The event had 374 students taking part this year from all district schools, and who logged a total of 257,439 reading minutes and collected a total of $4,437 in pledges during the drive.  The project concluded with the annual GRAB (Go Read a Book) event, in which more than 1,500 books were given away to Becker students as part of the drive to increase literacy.

 

Kindergarten students at Becker Primary School listed 37 readers who logged 12,619 minutes and raised $1,400.  The 41 first-graders there read 19,986 minutes and raised $600.  The 50 third-graders at the Intermediate School read 44,355 minutes and raised $1,000, while the 27 fourth-graders read 26,207 minutes and raised $200 and the 25 fifth-graders read 27,018 minutes and also raised $200.

 

The 34 Middle School sixth-graders read a total of 17,766 minutes, Olson said, and raised $75, and the seventh-grade group of 87 read 68,269 minutes and raised $60 in pledges.  A group of 36 Becker High School students read 23, 997, with no pledge figure listed.