Empowering Ontario Elementary Teachers with
Free Resources to Foster a Passion for Reading!
Teachers shoulder a great responsibility in shaping young minds. For that reason, Excalibur Insurance created the Read to Ride program to help teachers encourage their students in developing a lifelong love of reading.
Empowering Ontario
Elementary Teachers with
Free Resources to Foster a Passion for Reading!
Teachers shoulder a great responsibility in shaping young minds. For that reason, Excalibur Insurance created the Read to Ride program to help teachers encourage their students in developing a lifelong love of reading.
Why? Instilling a love of reading in children is one of the most powerful ways to help shape the next generation.
Reading is a simple and affordable way to expand young minds, broaden their worldview, and improve their vocabulary, all wrapped up in tales of adventure, world history, and faraway lands.
The Read to Ride program encourages students to complete 5 hours of reading each week, whether at school or at home. For every 5 hours of reading completed, the student will receive an entry ballot into the grand prize draw for one of two new bikes! The more each student reads, the more chances they have to win!
Additionally, for every 500 hours the class collectively reads, they are awarded a pizza party. The program runs once per school year; for a 12 week period in the winter.
The Excalibur Insurance Group strongly believes in the power of reading, and we hope this program helps your students develop more confidence in their reading skills and themselves.
Hear Ye – Hear Ye!
If you are a 3rd or 4th-grade teacher in the great land of Ontario, we need your assistance.
Our Read to Ride program is an excellent way to encourage your student’s reading progress and reward their achievements. We simply need you to enroll your class in the program. Please fill out the application below. We’re happy to accommodate split classes as well.
Until the end of third grade, children are learning to read. After third grade, children read to learn. Without a strong foundation as an independent reader, children may face struggles throughout their academic studies and beyond. Through the Read to Ride program, we can help children sharpen their reading skills by encouraging regular practice with fun incentives (ballots, pizza parties, new bikes) along the way.
The Read to Ride program is a package of materials to help kids succeed at reading – combined with gamification to set goals.
Every 5 hours a student reads, they will receive a ballot for the grand prize draw. For every 500 hours the class reads, a pizza party is rewarded. Two lucky classmates will win bicycles at the end of the 12-week period.
The Excalibur Insurance team will provide your classroom with all the materials to succeed and more.
How it Works
The Excalibur Insurance Group strongly believes in the power of reading, and we hope this program will help children develop more confidence in their reading skills and themselves. Luckily for us we’ve got to see the program in action and witness the engagement and excitement along the way.
Previous Read to Ride Participants
Far, far away in the land of Ontario, an insurance company wrote a children’s book…
Hold the
wardrobe door!
What happened?
Well, not so long ago, the Excalibur Insurance team had the idea for ‘Artie the Good Knight.’ A book to inspire people (especially youth) to rise to the challenge and be the best version of themselves.
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