The Launch of Season Seven of the Arab Reading Challenge/ 2023

1,250 students from SZPAG have registered in the Arab Reading Challenge website. The first stage of the challenge starts with participating students receiving the first stage red passport which contains 10 reading visas of 10 pages. Students read the book and summarize it in one page to obtain a reading visa. After completing ten books and summarizing them in ten pages, they will have completed the first stage, and will move on to the second stage, which is the green passport stage.

Important Dates in the Arab Reading Challenge:

Registration in the Arab Reading Competition closes on 23/4/2023

April (4-2023) First qualifiers at the level of public school

May (5-2023) Second qualifiers at the level of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (public and private schools) May and June (5/6-2023) the third qualifiers at the level of the UAE (public and private schools)

June (6-2023) Final qualifiers at the level of the UAE.

July (7-2023) Closing ceremony to announce the UAE Reading Champion.

Criteria:

The book should be in Arabic.

It should be a cultural book that can add up to the reader's knowledge of culture (art, literature, science, general culture, history, politics, story, or novel...).

It should be at the level of the student’s grade/stage in terms of subject matter and number of pages (i.e. the pages of the book should be more than 30 pages for grades 6-9, and more than 50 pages for students in grade 10 and above).