The students at Martin Luther School could recommend a few good books for camping.

It could come in handy if students meet or surpass their goal for national reading month. If that happens, two teachers will camp out on the school roof Friday night.

"(It's) an incentive to read," Principal Joanne Drevlow said about the campout.

Other schools will wrap up national reading month activities in the coming week.

At Riverside Elementary School, the Olympic spirit will linger long after the torch is extinguished in Turin. The students have competed in a read-a-thon through February. Their efforts will be awarded in an Olympic-like ceremony Tuesday, Cheryl Wolf, Riverside Reading First reading coach, said.

Throughout the month, an Olympic-like torch has been "lit" in the hallway with a table of books that received medals, such as the Caldecott and Newbery medals.

For the read-a-thon, the students chose a book, then rated what color Olympic medal - bronze, silver or gold - they thought it was worth, Wolf said. In the school hallways, outside classroom doors, posters are hung with the medal colors for each book a student is reading.

Other schools will finish up reading week activities as well. During national reading month, students logged the numbers of books they read and were visited by guest authors, along with other reading activities.

Another reading-focused event is March 2, when schools nationwide participate in Read Across America. The event was started by the National Education Association to get children excited about reading. It is celebrated on Theodor Geisel's birthday, more popularly known as children's author Dr. Seuss.

(Reach reporter Sara Kincaid at 250-8251 or sara.kincaid@;bismarcktribune.com.)