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Meadowridge students win bronze in reading competition

The Reading Link challenge is a province-wide program for students in Grades 4 and 5.
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Students at Meadowridge School win bronze in reading challenge competition. Contributed photo

Students at Meadowridge school won bronze at the Fraser Valley Regional Library Community Challenge for reading.

The Reading Link challenge is a province-wide program for students in Grades 4 and 5 that promotes the sport of reading.

Students compete in a series of trivia challenges.

Children learn about teamwork and how to read for retention and it encourages children to read.

Teams are made up of six participants and they have to read six selected books then they have to answer questions about the characters, plots and settings.

If teams make it to the Lower Mainland competition there is an additional Grand Challenge in front of a public audience.

The winning Grade 5 Meadowridge team competed against nine schools from neighbouring school districts and answered 29 of the 30 questions correctly.

Then they proceeded to a tie-breaker round and then sudden death for bronze.

A total of 430 teams from 94 schools participated in the event.



Colleen Flanagan

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I got my start with Black Press Media in 2003 as a photojournalist.
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