Registration is open for the 2018 Reading for Research
Challenge! If you desire to learn more about the creative education
behind mentor texts and develop the healthy habit of reading your world, we hope
you’ll join us for our 4th annual year.

Please read this entire registration post. If you are
confused, reread the post one more time before contacting others in the Facebook group. We have lots of
ReFoReMo veterans that can help, as well as your admin team. If you have
issues with registration, please remain calm. We are on the honor system and we
trust you.
Please follow these steps to get registered:
1. If you have not already, subscribe to this ReFoReMo blog by entering your email address into the opt-in box on the right-hand side. (Note: A Feedburner Email Subscription box will pop up. Copy the code listed at the bottom of the box and submit. You will receive an email verification link. Click the link to activate your subscription. This will enable you to receive the daily challenge posts as emails.)
1. If you have not already, subscribe to this ReFoReMo blog by entering your email address into the opt-in box on the right-hand side. (Note: A Feedburner Email Subscription box will pop up. Copy the code listed at the bottom of the box and submit. You will receive an email verification link. Click the link to activate your subscription. This will enable you to receive the daily challenge posts as emails.)
2. At the bottom of this post, find the comment box. Enter your FIRST and LAST NAME in the comment box. Click on the "Publish" button.
3. Head on over to the private ReFoReMo Facebook group and request to be admitted. It was designed to build community and host discussions about picture books as mentor texts.
4. When posting our ReFoReMo badge, created by talented illustrator Lori Nawyn, please link it back to this address: www.reforemo.com
5. Prizes will be revealed during
the posts. To be eligible, you must be registered, make efforts to
consistently research mentor texts, and comment on every post from March 1-March
30. This will allow you to enter our Rafflecopter on March 30. You must be
on the blog to comment. Please do not reply to the posts via email. Again, we are on the honor system.
Our February 26 post will help you prepare for the
challenge. Until then, feel free to browse our mission and site. When March 1 rolls around, it's go time! Read the posts and book
recommendations. Research and learn! Feel free to veer off of our list and cater your needs to your
own manuscripts. Utilize our research
tools and start discussions in our Facebook
Group. We are excited to share this educational experience with
you and we hope it makes a difference in your writing!
Looking forward to participating! - Lisa Amstutz
ReplyDeleteAmalia Hillmann
ReplyDelete(I just discovered your challenge and am very excited to join for the first time!)
Sharon Giltrow
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to a great month. I plan to read as many as the books as I can to my year 1 and Pre-primary class.
Thank you!-Nina Nolan
ReplyDeleteMaria Marshall - Excited to get started.
ReplyDeleteTina Cho--looking forward to the blog posts!
ReplyDeleteTanya Konerman - excited for another great year!
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ReplyDeleteExcited!! Erin Buhr
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ReplyDeleteYear 4 for me, baby! Kathy Halsey is in da house!
ReplyDeleteLooking for to 2018...Deborah Allmand.
ReplyDeleteRosemary Basham
ReplyDeleteLucrezia (Lu) Pierro Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!
ReplyDeleteDonna L Martin
ReplyDeleteAllison Alley - looking forward to a great month!
ReplyDeleteReady for another great ReFoReMo! Laura Purdie Salas
ReplyDeleteAnne Young
ReplyDeleteSo excited for this. It's always great.
Linda Carpenter
ReplyDeleteSo excited to do this again! Thank you everyone for putting this together. - Angie Isaacs
ReplyDeleteAngela De Groot
ReplyDeleteBeth Gallagher
ReplyDeleteNeha Thakkar
ReplyDeleteReady to read!! - Jodi McKay
ReplyDeletePaulette Sharkey
ReplyDeletePriscilla Van Koevering
ReplyDeleteLori Alexander— Thank you ReFoReMo team!
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Curry
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ReplyDeleteAnn Magee
ReplyDeleteCarla Ketner
ReplyDeleteMichelle Schaub is ready to participate!
ReplyDeleteNoelle McBride
ReplyDeleteSherry Howard Woohoo, let the reading begin! May we all become gold medal deconstructers.
ReplyDeleteI’m in! I need this!
ReplyDeleteLaura Lee Malesh
ReplyDeleteC.L. Murphy cannot wait to begin!
ReplyDeleteAnn Kelley Can't wait!!
ReplyDeleteMonique Wakefield- ready to read!
ReplyDeleteTim Canny aka Francis S. Poesy
ReplyDeleteSue Heavenrich - rarin' to go. (and may have started reading some books already....)
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy this challenge. The mentor texts that you suggest, really inform my writing. Alice Carty Fulgione
ReplyDeleteJacquie Sewell
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time with the reading for research challenge. But I love Picture books, I love research and I think it sounds like a great way to hone my writing skills (and find some new favorite PBs!) Thanks for organizing us!
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ReplyDeleteYear Two for me and I can't wait to get started reading and studying great books! thank you so much for this opportunity
Maria Bostian - I'm looking forward to another great March!
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ReplyDeleteMy comment is not posted. I'm trying again. So excited that ReFoReMo is here! Thanks Carrie and Kirsta! Carole Calladine
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ReplyDeleteMK Resk--Looking forward to another great ReFoReMo season! Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteReady to go!
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Shereen Sepitko
ReplyDeleteHoping using Anonymous will allow me to register. Been trying to post a comment. I don’t want to miss out!
Sorry if this is a duplicate. The first one didn't seem to go. Alayne Kay Christian back for another year - always fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI'm ready. Let's get this party started. I'm ready to read, research and write. Thanks! Sharon Langley
ReplyDeleteCasey Jones
ReplyDeleteAnne Appert. So ready for this !
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I need to do this but... Cindy Williams Schrauben :)
ReplyDeleteAnn Teplick
ReplyDeleteLooking forward and thank you!
Ready to go for another fantastic year of ReFoReMo! Thank you Carrie and Kirstie! Traci Bold
ReplyDeleteLinda Skeers
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ReplyDeleteSusan Korchak
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to participating!
Leah Heilman Schanke. Looking forward!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely in! - Dow Phumiruk
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this! -Sara Ackerman
ReplyDeleteSusan Johnston Taylor
ReplyDeleteCynthia Hawthorne
ReplyDeleteThank you to the whole team for all you do!
Tracey Brown
ReplyDeleteRita Lorraine Hubbard
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this year's ReFoReMo!
Stephanie Watson. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMartin Segal
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to another great ReFoReMo!
Gloria Reichert
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting opportunity!
Michelle Kashinsky - Can't Wait!
ReplyDeleteBecky Loescher
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this!
Marilyn Garcia
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ReplyDeleteMia Geiger
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Cassie Bentley
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ReplyDeleteKristi Mahoney.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to it! Thanks!
Lynn Pedersen
ReplyDeleteSuzy Leopold
ReplyDeleteCharlotte Dixon So excited for ReFoReMo 2018!
ReplyDeleteLauren Kerstein
ReplyDeleteCarol Iverson
ReplyDeleteKaren Greenwald Thank you:)
ReplyDeleteDoug Marshall
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ReplyDeleteMary Kate Bolinder
ReplyDeleteLinda Kulp Trout - Looking forward to reading some great books!
ReplyDeleteKathryn Worley
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to another reading round of great books. Bev Baird
ReplyDeleteKyle McBride
ReplyDeleteFrances Kalavritinos
ReplyDeleteTracy Hora
ReplyDeleteCathy Ogren - I'm so happy to be a part of this!
ReplyDeleteJanet AlJunaidi
ReplyDeleteIt was so hard to get a comment on this! You guys might want to look into that, but thanks for the program! Sherry Peace
ReplyDeleteLisa Furness - Ready to Research!
ReplyDeleteRhonda Sprau - Thank you for organizing this!
ReplyDeleteLauri Fortino
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ReplyDeleteLourdes Heuer
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry if this is a duplicate. I thought I'd signed up this morning, but don't see my name here.
ReplyDeleteLeah Kolidas
Amber Hendricks
ReplyDeleteRegistering - Robin Brett Wechsler. Thanks!
ReplyDeletePatricia Nozell
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to a wonderful March of mentor texts!
Megan Taraszkiewicz
ReplyDeleteCathy Ballou Mealey
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for organizing another energizing ReFoReMo!
Denise Wilson
ReplyDeleteJena Benton Lasley is ready to participate!
ReplyDeleteDaryl Gottier
ReplyDeleteKatie Giorgio!
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ReplyDeleteKatrina Moore Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteChantal Ostroske
ReplyDeleteKaren Condit
ReplyDeleteThank you for this community, I know you work hard. : )
ReplyDeleteI'm signing up. Annelouise Mahoney
First timer, Julie Evans
ReplyDeleteVasilia Graboski
ReplyDeleteVery excited to participate for the first time!
Lisa Katzenberger
ReplyDeleteCarol Ekster
ReplyDeleteThank you in advance for your hard #kidlit work and inspiration!
Stephanie Gray
ReplyDeleteJennifer Hunt
ReplyDeleteLooking Forward!
Samantha Altmann
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ReplyDeleteErika Crowl :)
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ReplyDeleteJilanne Hoffmann Ready, able and willing!
ReplyDeleteSusan Twiggs can’t wait,
ReplyDeleteViki Heagy ---excited to start
ReplyDeleteSharon Dalgleish
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Sue Bradford Edwards
ReplyDeleteWendi Silvano
ReplyDeleteLinda Purves. Intrigued.
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ReplyDeleteSo excited about this! Amber Karlins
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ReplyDeleteMarla Lesage
ReplyDeleteFirst timer but excited to dive in!
My month of March is crazy-busy this year, so I won't be able to join officially, but I will be following the posts, and reading as many of the books as I can. Love ReFo & thanks for all your hard work, Carrie, Kirsti, Janie, Keila & Cindy :)
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ReplyDeleteCheryl Keely. Looking forward to all the good books. Sorry if I come up twice. I tried this morning but didn’t see it.
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ReplyDeleteGail Hartman
ReplyDeleteThird try! Hope this works!
Worked! Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteMelanie Ellsworth - glad to be back! Thank you for all the work you put into this!
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ReplyDeleteJohnell DeWitt
ReplyDeleteThis will be my second year and I look forward to it!
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