Regional reading competition

The 14 registered sixth-graders are the winners of their school - on 25 February, they will once again read from their favourite books in front of a jury. The upcoming competition is looking for the best readers in the Salzland district. The winner will go on to the state finals with the chance of perhaps even taking part in the national finals in Berlin in June.

The district library in Aschersleben is once again organising and hosting the reading competition at district level. "We are looking forward to this year's entries from the boys and girls and will be able to hear and see how the youngsters have developed in their reading and understanding of books," announces library director Susanne van Treek. "Promoting reading is of course also one of our most important tasks."

At least there is a positive trend in terms of registrations in the Salzland district: after ten and eleven participants in previous years, this time 14 girls and boys will be competing with their companions in the district library. They will be reading texts aloud in front of critical and knowledgeable adults, i.e. doing what they like to do and are particularly good at. They are secondary and grammar school pupils from Aschersleben, Bernburg, Schönebeck, Staßfurt, Calbe, Nachterstedt, Egeln and Schneidlingen. Last year, the Schönebeck secondary school was the district winner.

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