Transcript Reading Group code

Read for My School
The National Schools Reading Competition
27 January – 28 March 2014
Areas of Focus
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Registration – educators; pupils
Educator – home page
Pupil – home page
RfMS Sections – Read, Write, Share
RfMS – Resources and Support
RfMS – Prizes and Awards
Educator Registration
1. From the home page / login screen, click Sign up as an educator, located beneath the
login fields.
2. Please complete the educator registration form. All fields are required.
3. Upon successful registration, you will see your educator welcome screen (an email will be
sent to you to confirm your reading group account details).
4. Click the Get Started button at the bottom of the Welcome Page.
5. You will be linked directly to your educator home page. This page will serve as your
educator home page for the Read for My School competition.
6. Make a note of your Reading Group code – you will need to distribute this to pupils.
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RfMS Registration - Educator
Pupil Registration - Create Your Reading Group
1. From the home page / login screen, click sign up as a pupil, located beneath the login
fields.
2. Complete the short pupil account form, inserting the Reading Group code. Then
click Create Account. Later, you will be able to view the pupil username and password
you have assigned as they will appear in your educator Reading Group.
3. After reading the welcome message, click Get Started and you will be taken to the
specific pupil’s home page.
4. If you as educator are setting up the pupil accounts, logout from the pupil home page
and repeat the process for the next pupil. You can always log back into your educator
account to check that the registered pupils are being highlighted in your Reading Group.
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RfMS Registration - Pupils
Educator Home Page
 View and access all pupil records
associated with your reading
group.
 View reading group progress
against overall school reading goal.
 View and edit pupil accounts to
manage reading group.
 Nominate pupils for reading and
writing awards.
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RfMS Home Page - Educator
Pupil Home Page
 Home page broken into three (3)
areas of focus:
 Read – tracks pupil reading records
 Write – tracks writing competition
 Share – tracks interactive polling
 Pupil can expand each area of
focus and read books, participate
in the essay competition, and
share thoughts through polls.
 TOP TIP: expand the Read section
on the homepage for the link to
log a book read offline.
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RfMS Home Page - Pupil
RfMS SECTION - READ
 There are over 100+ digital titles
across eight book categories to
choose from in the competition.
 Pupils can collect reading
achievements by reading a book in
each of the categories.
 Pupils can explore age-appropriate
books based on age range.
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RfMS - Read
RfMS SECTION - Write
 Pupils can participate in a writing
competition.
 There is a short video for pupils to
watch that explains the focus of
the competition.
 Pupils can manage their essays –
write, save, edit – throughout the
competition directly from their
personalised home page.
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RfMS - Write
RfMS SECTION - Share
 Pupils and teachers can participate
in interactive polls that are
updated throughout the
competition.
 Interactive polls are broken into
four (4) categories
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Reading
School Life
Digital Life
The Future
RfMS – How it Works
RfMS – How it Works
section
 Educators and pupils can access
the How it Works section on the
top navigation bar which will
contain key resources and
customer support to assist
participants throughout the
competition.
 Programme overview, instruction,
best practices, rules, and customer
support are all available to RfMS
participants.
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RfMS – Resources and Support
Prize Draws
 100,000 books from Pearson and Penguin to be won!
 Everyone who reads eight books enters a prize draw
– there will be hundreds of winners!
 Any school where 250 books or more are read enters
a prize draw to win 100 books!
 More prizes to be won if you answer the questions in
the Share section!
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Prize Draws
Regional and National Awards
 Who read the most books?
 Who wrote the best letter to go with the books to
children in Africa?
 Your teacher can choose two people to put
forward for regional and national reading awards
and more great prizes.
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Regional and National Winners
Key Milestones
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Register and set up your Reading Group account from 20 January by
clicking on sign up as an educator on the homepage.
Set up pupil accounts from 20 January by clicking on sign up as a pupil
on the homepage.
Read, Write, Share and compete from 27 January to 28 March
Nominate individual children for regional and national awards from 28
March
Regional and national awards celebrations in May and June.
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Regional and National Winners
Spreading the Word
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Get parents involved by sending them a version of the letter in the
“downloads” section of “How it Works”
Show staff members and pupils the video in the Programme Overview
section of “How it Works”
Get your pupils excited by showing them the full extent of the online
library and explaining they can access anywhere they have an internet
connection.
Remind everyone that this is about Reading and Writing and winning
prizes, but also about doing something that will benefit the school as
well as schools in Africa.
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Regional and National Winners
Have fun reading for your school!
 You have until 28 March to read as many books as
you can.
 We hope you enjoy using the website and look
forward to hearing from you.
 Best of luck in the prize draws and the regional
and national awards!
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