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The Bibliopolis A-Z Reading Challenge

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This year, while the 4th graders and up are participating in the 40-Book Reading Challenge, some of the 1st-3rd graders are trying the A-Z Reading Challenge. The challenge is to read at least one book starting with each letter of the alphabet (either by title or author). Here are Sophie (3rd grade) and Lucy (2nd grade), as well as Jamie (Pre-School), recommending books to each other, and having some fun. 🙂

The “A-Z Book Challenge” Conversation (Bibliopolis) from Kenny Choi on Vimeo.

Doesn’t this make you want to read? Especially The Chronicles of Narnia?! “I can’t read yet, but this is a good book!” 🙂

Needing to Chew on What We Read

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People are starting to get competitive about the Free 5th Book Ceremony, especially as I called out (in a friendly way!) certain groups of people…but we have to remember that the most important thing is not finishing books as fast as possible, but allowing yourself the time to be inspired, ministered to, and challenged by what you read!

To that end, we have Baby Corrie from Gracepoint Berkeley church, who captures a couple of valuable lessons for us all.

1) It’s never too early to start reading!
2) We really should chew on what we read! 🙂

 

*By the way, a2f Berkeley is now on the board 🙂

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The Free 5th Book Ceremony

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It’s been less than a month since we launched Bibliopolis U, and Gracepoint Berkeley church has caught Reading Fever! While Jennifer and Matt were the first college students to receive their free 5th book, our post-grads have joined the reading revolution, and we have given away 11 free books already.

When you’ve finished reading your 4th book, you just find me at DL or HB and we have our free 5th book ceremony. That entails chit-chatting a little about the books you read while you choose your free 5th book, and you pose for a photo that will be on our Wall of Fame (coming soon). And just because it makes things a bit more fun, everyone gets a 1st award in one or more categories. You’ll note some of the categories are pretty…specialized. 🙂

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You may have noticed that there are some demographics noticeably absent in the wall of fame thus far — special call for all the post-grad brothers, IGSM, and a2f Berkeley readers out there to represent!

Which book are you going to choose for your free 5th book?