Clara Love Elementary School read more than 16,000 books in a month to take the Turn 1 lead among three schools competing in Texas Motor Speedway's "Speeding To Read" educational program.
Clara Love Elementary School's 600-child student body grabbed a commanding lead by reading 16,856 books while Justin is running second having read 13,745 books and Hatfield third with 13,115. The combined 1,500 students from the three Northwest ISD elementary schools read 43,716 books and 1,196 children either met or exceeded their reading goals for Turn 1 of 4 in this reading program.
Clara Love Elementary Principal Julie Nerby was presented the giant "Speeding To Read" trophy by Texas Motor Speedway for being the Turn 1 leaders during a school assembly Friday morning. The trophy will be displayed in the school's lobby and will move to the school that leads one of the four turns.
"The students at Clara Love went crazy when they learned that our school was in the lead at Turn 1 of the Texan 500," Nerby said. "The kids read 16,856 books and 87 percent of them reached their personal reading goal. Clara Love is driven to win the race and be the Speeding To Read champs."
Clara Love was paced by Ms. Baker's fifth-grade class that read 227 books, tops among the Grades 3-5 Division at the three schools. The K-2 Division leader came from Hatfield as Ms. Hunter's kindergarten class led the way with 1,694 books read. The leading classrooms received a Turn 1 Leader trophy from Texas Motor Speedway and earned 100 books from Score-A-Goal in the Classroom, a "Speeding To Read" partner, for their school's library. Each student in the leading classrooms received a book bag compliments of Speedway Children's Charities-Texas and Office Depot as well as a book for their personal library from Score-A-Goal.
The top individual readers came from Clara Love and Justin elementary schools. Clara Love second-grader Dominick Duarte led the K-2 Division by reading 241 books while Justin fourth-grader Cooper Donoho led the 3-5 Division with 43 books read. They both received a Turn 1 Leader trophy from TMS and two books for their personal use. They also received four tickets to the Moslah Temple Shrine Circus at the Will Rogers Memorial Center from Oct. 7-15 as did the top five in each division.
The top five in the K-2 Division were Clara Love's Duarte, Hatfield kindergartner Chloe Brown (195 books), Clara Love kindergartner Will Arnett (178), Hatfield kindergartner Katie Gilbert (176) and Justin second-grader Roselyn Contreras (164). In the 3-5 Division, it was Justin's Donoho followed by Clara Love fifth-graders Justin Barnes (40), Joshua Graybeal (37), Sasha Azua (34) and Katie Starkey (30).
The leaders of Turn 2 of "Speeding To Read's" Texan 500 will be announced Thursday, Nov. 1, as the entire student bodies and faculty from all three schools will visit Texas Motor Speedway for the event. NASCAR star Danica Patrick will serve as the guest speaker and award presenter for the event that will take place in the frontstretch grandstands.
About Texas Motor Speedway's "Speeding To Read" Program: The mission of Texas Motor Speedway's "Speeding To Read" program is to utilize motorsports, its drivers and our races to incentivize elementary school children to read more frequently and enrich their educational experience. "Speeding To Read" is an incentive-based, NASCAR-themed reading program created by Texas Motor Speedway to encourage elementary school students to read more frequently during the school year. Texas Motor Speedway selected Clara Love Elementary School in nearby Justin, Texas, to partner with on this pilot program that debuted at the outset of the 2011-2012 school year. The student body was split into two divisions - kindergarten through second grade and third through fifth grade - with the classrooms competing against each other to read the most books and earn the title of Speeding To Read champions. TMS crowned the leaders in the two divisions - as well as individual leaders - quarterly and provided each leading classroom with a trophy and a gift bag for each of the students. The quarters are based off key dates in the NASCAR schedule and represent the four turns of a race track. Turn 1 is the start of the Chase for the Sprint Cup in mid-September; Turn 2 is TMS' AAA Texas 500 NASCAR race week in November; Turn 3 is the start of the new season with SpeedWeeks and the Daytona 500 in February; Turn 4 is TMS' Texas 500 NASCAR race week in April. The winning classrooms of the overall competition each received four race tickets to the April NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway
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