South Portland Middle School is proud to announce that 6th grade Team Tiger Shark Humanities classes have been crowned Maine State Reading Champions. This championship resulted from reading the most minutes per team (average by team member) over four weeks during READBowl IX: The World Championship of Reading, a global reading competition put on by Read With Malcolm, the Youth Literacy Initiative of NFL Super Bowl Champion and children's book author Malcolm Mitchell. The seventh annual competition was held from January 12 through this past Super Bowl Sunday.
"Winning a state championship is always prestigious," said Mitchell. "However this year is especially notable, as there were more than one million students, from all 50 states and 19 countries on the reading field for the big game this year. I am so proud of every student who competed and congratulate our state and national champions. Training for READBowl X begins now."
Overall, students from across the globe read for more than 800 million minutes during READBowl IX. Mitchell, who struggled to read through school and into college, has made it his mission to reach kids and help them read to a better future.
For more information on READBowl, contact John Zoccola at john@readwithmalcolm.com