Grab your pencils,
crayons, paper and your
imagination!
The annual Reading Rainbow contest is here
and we'd love to read your stories.
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Local Prizes:
Literacy backpacks filled with an
assortment of games, books, DVDS and other
cool items will be awarded to local winners,
and every child that enters will receive a
certificate signed by Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton.
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National Prizes:
- Grand Prize: laptops
- Second Place: flat panel TVs with DVDs
- Third Place: MP3 Players
Each national winner will also receive 3
sets of DVDs with books – a set for their
home, school, and community library. The 12
national winning stories will also be
featured on the Reading Rainbow PBS website
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 Kindergarten
thru third grade
Write
and Illustrate Your Own Story!
Lots
of great prizes and every entry receives a
certificate of achievement
Stories
must be postmarked by Friday, March 14, 2008
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Mail or drop off
your stories to:
KSPS-TV
Attn: Reading Rainbow Contest
3911 South Regal Street
Spokane, WA 99223
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you will need the
free Adobe Reader to download the files
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Eligibility |
- The Contest is open to students who are in
Kindergarten, First, Second or Third grades.
- Employees of sponsors, any participating PBS station or
their affiliates, manufacturers, sales reps, subsidiaries or
parent companies, advertising/sales promotion agencies,
judges and the immediate families of each are not eligible.
Void where prohibited.
- Sponsors are not responsible for lost, late, damaged,
misdirected or illegible Entry Forms or unsuccessful
attempts to notify the prize recipients.
- All materials and information submitted as part of the
Entry Form must be the participant's own original work.
- The Entry Form may not contain any unauthorized use of
names, likenesses or biographical information of any third
parties.
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| Entry
Guidelines |
- Entrants must be in Kindergarten, First, Second, or
Third grade.
- Only one entry per person will be accepted.
- Only single-author stories qualify (no co-authored
stories).
- Stories can be fact or fiction, prose, or poetry.
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| Word
Count |
- Kindergarten & First grade stories must have a minimum
of 50 or maximum of 200 words.
- Second & Third grade stories must have a minimum of 100
or maximum of 350 words.
- The word count includes "a," "an," & "the," but not the
words on non-story pages such as the title page.
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| Story
Text |
- Text must be printed legibly (or typed).
- Children who cannot write may dictate their story to an
adult.
- Text may be integrated into the illustration pages or on
individual pages.
- Non-English text must be translated on the same page and
the translation text must adhere to word count.
- Invented spelling is accepted.
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| Format &
Illustrations |
- Stories must have at least 5 original, clear, and
colorful illustrations.
- Stories must be created on one side of paper and
numbered on back of each page.
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| Entry
Form |
- Entry form must be complete, legible, and must include
parent (and teacher, if appropriate) signature.
- Each entry must include the official
READING RAINBOW Young
Writers & Illustrators Entry Form, with the required
signature of a parent/guardian (and, if appropriate, the
signature of the sponsoring teacher), confirming that the
story and art are original, and granting permission to use
the entry for promotional purposes.
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| Return
of Entries |
- The Contest administrators will make every effort, but
are not required, to return entries only if accompanied by a
stamped, self-addressed envelope of an appropriate size.
- READING RAINBOW or local stations are not responsible
for late, lost, stolen, misdirected, damaged, mutilated,
incomplete, or illegible entries, or postage-due mail.
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| Rights
Associated with Contest |
- Winners grant the right to use their names and
likenesses in advertising and promotion without further
compensation or permission, except where prohibited by law.
- By entering, entrants agree to abide by the above stated
rules, and warrant that their entry is their original work
and does not infringe upon or violate rights of any third
party.
- No royalties will be paid at this or any time.
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| The
Prizes |
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Locally there will be 1st, 2nd & 3rd places winners for each grade level
(K-3).
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The prizes will consist of a Reading Rainbow Backpack with
various levels of items consisting of books, games, DVDs and various
other literacy based items.
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The 1st place winner from each grade level
will have their story submitted directly to Reading Rainbow to compete
at the national level. All local winners will be notified by May 15th,
2007.
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