Victoria's Premier Steve Bracks has challenged for the second year Victorian students from Prep to Year 9 to take up reading. The program called Premier's Reading Challenge runs from 21 January to 31 August 2007.
My sons have signed up for the challenge and when they successfully meet the required number of readings -15 books including 10 from the Premier's booklist - until August, they will get a certificate signed by the Premier and get their names published in the newspaper. This early, my son Gino was happy to tell me that he has already read 3 books from the list and with the number of books he's been checking out from our public library plus the requires readings in school, he's bound to complete the challenge way ahead of the deadline.
This could be a great idea for Philippine school librarians to adopt (minus the publication of names in the newspaper coz we all know it's expensive) at the start of the school year in June and culminate during the Library and Information Month. Don't wait for your local officials, school administrators or even DepEd, to initiate a similar activity coz promoting reading is not exactly their top priority.
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