Want to encourage reading at your house? Take the PTA Family Reading Challenge.
Simply register here and make time to read together as a family. Reading helps kids use their imagination, broaden their vocabulary, and think more critically.
To participate, capture your favorite moments through photos, videos, or other social media messages using the hashtag #FamiliesRead. Any content that relates to reading together as a family is perfect. Once you share on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, you'll be eligible to win prizes that include an Amazon Kindle gift card, an Amazon Kindle e-Reader, and a grand prize.
Check the website for more details per each challenge and good luck!
Post pics of your family reading during the following challenges:
July 1-10: Social Media Challenge
July 11-20: Photo Challenge
July 21-30: Video Challenge
July 31: Grand Prize Challenge
Good family read-aloud titles include:
Ages 0-3
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown; iIllustrated by Clement HurdMy Very First Mother Goose, edited by Iona Opie; illustrated by Rosemary WellsBrown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.; illustrated by Eric Carle
Ages 4-7
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice SendakWhere the Sidewalk Ends by Shel SilversteinThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Ages 8-11
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. WhiteThe New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky; Illustrated by James StevensonThe Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis