Basic PARP Program Rules

• Spend 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, reading with your child for a total of 75 minutes each week.

• Either you may read to your child, your child may read to you, or you may read quietly together. If you are not available to read, your child may read with a grandparent, brother, sister, or friend. Students in grades 5-8 may read 60 of the required 75 minutes (i.e. 4 of the 5 days) on their own. A parent must verify that the student has read.

• If you miss a day, you can make it up the next day.

• Fill in the time sheet each day after reading. Put the number of minutes you read in the appropriate box.  If you wish, add a list of what you've read on the back of the slip.

• Sign, then scissor off the proper weekly portion from the timesheet, and have your child give it to his/her homeroom teacher on each of the Wednesdays during the PARP program.

• All students in grades PreK-8 and their parents or caregivers are eligible.

• Your child’s timesheet slip MUST be returned each Wednesday to ensure eligibility for the weekly awards. Students who complete all three weeks will receive a bonus reward of a $5 coupon to the Friends of the Montauk Library Book Sale at the Montauk Library

• Note: If your child forgot his/her first or second-week slip, he or she may bring it in late and still earn the bonus prize, as long as it is turned in by the third slip due date.