Public television station KNME-TV, Channel 5 invites all young authors and artists to enter “The Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest!” The contest is open to children in kindergarten through third grade.
The stories can be fact or fiction, prose or poetry, and they can also have math or science themes. This contest encourages, challenges, and rewards children for telling their own stories, in their own words, and with their own pictures.
KNME-TV will award 12 prizes on the local level – to the top three entries from each of the four grade levels. The grand prizewinner in each grade level will be sent on to the national contest. Every contest entrant will receive a special Certificate of Achievement signed by LeVar Burton, the host of Reading Rainbow. The contest deadline is March 31, 2005.
Contest rules and entry forms are available at: KNME-TV, 1130 University Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, N.M. 87102 (between Indian School & Lomas, NE) and at the KNME Web site - Reading Rainbow Young Writers Contest, and at participating Wendy’s locations, Learning is Fun (5000 Menaul NE, Albuq.), Barnes & Noble Bookstore locations, Albuquerque Journal, all Albuquerque / Bernalillo County Public Libraries and various public libraries around New Mexico, including Farmington, Los Alamos, Taos and Santa Fe. For more information call (505) 277-4087.
The prize for the national winners will include a Reading Rainbow library set, featuring 10 Reading Rainbow episodes on DVD and related feature books. Each national winner’s story will be posted on the PBS Kids - Reading Rainbow Web site.
Local contest prizes have been provided by: Learning is Fun, Bound to be Read, pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and Gary A. Meckler, DDS, children’s book author Ana Baca, and KNME-TV5. It is expected that more prizes will be announced in the spring. Local contest sponsorship was provided by Wendy’s and the Albuquerque Journal.
LOCAL PRIZES
Grand prize – 1st Place (Awarded in each grade level)
· KNME-TV will videotape the child reading his or her winning story for a spot to air on KNME-TV during the Summer months
· Story Writing Kit donated by Learning is Fun
· A Journal donated by pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and
Gary A. Meckler, DDS
2nd place – (each grade level)
· A Classroom Visit / Reading, plus an autographed book, by local children’s book author Ana Baca
· Story Writing Kit donated by Learning is Fun
· A Journal donated by pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and
Gary A. Meckler, DDS
3rd place - (each grade level)
· Story Writing Kit donated by Learning is Fun
· Gift Card donated by Bound To Be Read
· A Journal donated by pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and
Gary A. Meckler, DDS
Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218
Posted by scarr at March 17, 2005 11:44 AM