Good morning! We’ve got a new challenge for you and your students — one we hope will help them practice independent reading skills they can use all summer. — The Learning NetworkGet your students ready for our Summer Reading Contest
Every summer for 16 years now, we’ve invited students to read (or watch or listen to) anything they like in The New York Times and tell us about the experience. We’ll be doing that again this year, and, as always, we’ll be offering students dozens of free pieces a week to choose from if they aren’t already Times subscribers. But if you would like to help your students practice this kind of independent reading before turning them loose, our spring challenge can help. All your students have to do is choose three articles (or videos, podcasts or photo essays) from three different Times sections; read, listen to or watch them; and then tell us what they thought — in writing or via a short video. At the beginning of June, we’ll call out some of our favorite responses to help them understand what we’ll be looking for this summer. We’ll also share your students’ thoughts with the journalists who wrote the original pieces. If your school has a Times subscription, students can choose anything from 2026 they like. If they don’t, they can find dozens of free articles across sections here. Recent Times reporting about schools
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A summer activity for your students, June 5 to Aug. 14
Our Summer Reading Contest is our longest-running challenge — and our simplest. All students have to do to participate is tell us what they’re reading, watching or listening to in The New York Times and why. Students can enter by submitting a short written response — or they can make a video up to 90 seconds long. They can enter any week or every week from June 5 through August 14. To give your students a sense of what we’re looking for, have them check out the work of these winners. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to LNfeedback@nytimes.com. More next week.
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