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Contributed by: Joseph Kirchmer/YourHub.com on 12/13/2006

PARKER -- Second graders at Ave Maria Catholic School helped make history Dec. 13 -- and all they had to do was read a passage from a children's book.

Ave Maria students, along with more than 500,000 kids across the globe, broke the Guinness World Record for the "Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations."

At exactly 10 a.m., students read pages 35 through 37 from chapter five of Charlotte's Web, in coordination with hundreds of thousands of students around the world.

The old record for the largest number of people reading the same piece of literature aloud, simultaneously, in multiple locations is 155,528 students from 737 schools throughout the United Kingdom. They read William Wordsworth's poem Daffodils on March 19, 2004.

Congratulations Ave Maria students!

For more information on the record setting event, which was sponsored by Walden Media, click here.

Ave Maria teacher Kari Rodgers organized the event for the school.

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Yes! An accomplishment through poetry!

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