The Kindalin Reading Challenge

The Kindalin Reading Challenge aims to support children’s exploration of books at Kindalin and at home.

The Kindalin Reading Challenge was inaugurated on Monday 11th April 2011 as part of our Transition to School Program. Inspired by the Premier’s Reading Challenge in which many NSW schools participate in, the Kindalin Reading Challenge aims to support children’s exploration of books at Kindalin and at home.

Shared reading between parents and their children is not only an enjoyable activity, it helps to support the development of a child’s emergent reading skills. Literacy awareness begins from an early age.

Kindalin invites families and children to sign up and participate. Children and their families can select their own books to read. Families may also include books from our author studies and a Book of the Week. (Information about these books is displayed on the Centre Noticeboard.)

As books are read, we will be asking for the children to record the title of each book in a Reading Log. They will also paint and draw a picture retelling events in the story and to share this with their peers during Newstime at Kindy.

In the first week of each month, children are asked to bring their Reading Log into Kindy. Their progress in the Reading Challenge will be recorded.

We will be holding the Reading Challenge until 26 August 2011. This coincides with Book Week. During the week from 20th to 26th August we will also hold the first Kindalin Book Fair. The children will receive a Certificate of participation in the Reading Challenge and a book.

The challenge: Children and their families have until this date to read 15 – 20 books.