The Premiers’ Reading Challenge is a fun and easy way to motivate children and their families in early childhood education to discover the joy of reading.
The 2024 challenge will run until Friday 6 September 2024. This year’s theme, ‘Explore. Learn. Enjoy’, captures the excitement and sense of adventure that comes with reading.
To take part in the challenge, register your service and make use of resources, including newsletter text, to promote the challenge to families at your service. Encourage families to read books from the challenge book list or books of their own choice. To register your service, visit Premiers' Reading Challenge.
Promote the challenge
The Premiers’ Reading Challenge webpage will be updated by the end of Term 1, 2024, to include resources for you to promote the challenge to your service’s community, including:
- draft newsletter text
- a letter from the Premier of Victoria
- posters and other promotional material
- milestone certificates.
About the challenge
The challenge encourages families and children from birth to Year 10 to read and record their efforts online, promoting the importance of reading for literacy development.
This year, families have until Friday 6 September 2024 to read the set number of books for their year level, including books from more than 15,000 titles on the challenge book list or books of their own choice. Children who complete the challenge will receive a certificate of achievement.
More than 4 million children and students have read more than 60 million books as part of the challenge since it started in 2005.
Find out more
For more information, refer to Premiers’ Reading Challenge.
For further enquiries, contact the Premiers’ Reading Challenge team by email: readingchallenge@education.vic.gov.au
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