Reading Rainbow

The 2006 Regional Reading Rainbow celebration event honored the 4,106 children who wrote and illustrated original stories for the PBS eight 2006 Reading Rainbow "Young Writers and Illustrators Contest." It's featured here because of the involvement of the Department of Education:

• Dan Corbett (who is with both UMD Education and PBS eight), is the project organizer, director and M.C.
• Gary Babiuk and Dan Corbett's Block II ELED candidates judged the 30 finalists for each grade level as an assessment opportunity. They determined the Top Ten for each grade level and the Grand Prize winners.
• Terrie Shannon and the UMD Technology in Education course students turned the ten Grand Prize winning stories into PowerPoint presentations. Terrie projected the students' story illustrations onto a screen while the young writers read their stories to a packed auditorium.
• Jean Stevenson provided a prize.
• Karen Plass created this web page.

Grand Prize Winners

Kindergarten

• First Place - Juliet Kildahl: The Lost Kitten
• Second Place - Ethan Skaggs: A Dog's Birthday Party
• Originality - Kevin S. Kutasevich: The Adventure of Kevin and "Banana Head" the Motorcycle Monkey

First Grade

• First Place - Quinn Kildahl: Slimy the Salamander
• Second Place - Lillian Mackay: The Cockatoo who Didn't Listen

Second Grade

• First Place - Kendra Lender: The Zebra and the Apple Tree
• Second Place - Kianna Hren: The Island – My Thinking Place

Third Grade

• First Place – Mason Parker: The Robin that Couldn't Fly South
• Second Place – Hannah Aldrich: The Hole to Heaven
• Originality – Genevieve Gary: The Runaway Cactus

Special Thanks

• PBS eight
• UMD Department of Education
• Kiwanis Club of Friendly Duluth
• Thrivent Financial Services
• Northland Foundation
• Minnesota Twins
• Cub Foods of Duluth
• Marshall School
• Paper Capers
• Explorations
• Public Libraries of the Northland
• Thirty-one participating Northland Schools
• Kim Rose and Absolute Rutabega Records