It's that time of year again! The Premier's Reading Challenge has officially begun and so it would be great to see as many students participating in it as possible, especially since it is the National Year of Reading this year.
As most of you would know, last year the Seaford Library, in conjunction with the Friends of the Seaford Library, donated an iPad2 as an incentive for students to complete the challenge, and one lucky student who completed the challenge received this amazing prize. Obviously we will probably need to continue this tradition of a prize now, but what exactly this year's prize is, is yet to be decided.
If you can encourage as many students to be involved as possible, it would be great- and even better, if you could do it as a class it would be amazing! Given that 46% of adults in Australia do not even have the basic literacy skills to read a bus timetable or medicine instructions, we need to promote reading as much as possible....
Oh, and for those of you who were wondering, Roxette were AMAZING!! (both times)!!!
Don't forget, students can also earn up to 10 point for participating in a reading competition in their Lifelong Learning Books as well!
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Participate in a literacy competition e.g. Read-a-thon.
Good one Dani, I didn't know that, so that is something we need to tell students as well.
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