Now that I am beginning to read chapter books I can choose to earn my gold medal by recording the number of hours I read. How exactly do the time cards work?
Because chapter books usually take a long time to read it’s hard to read the number required to earn your gold medal. That’s why you can choose to go for your gold medal by recording the number of hours you read instead. That way, if you only end up reading four books over the course of a summer, you can still qualify to receive a medal. Time cards have rows of the number 30 on them. For every ½ hour you read simply cross off or circle a 30. Eight hours equals a bronze medal, sixteen hours equals a silver medal, and twenty-four or more hours equals a gold. We know it sounds like a lot, but remember you have the whole summer to fill out your time card! Also, we ask you to write down the titles of the books that you read and show them to the Summer Reading Clerk because we keep a running total of how many books everyone has read over the course of the summer for statistical purposes.
