National+Year+of+Reading

2012 has been declared the National Year of Reading.
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**National Year of Reading starts here!** If your parents read to you when you were young, or if you learnt to read at an early age and if you were encouraged to read for pleasure at school, then reading will be a natural part of your life. But 46% of Australians struggle to meet the most basic reading demands of everyday life and work. Did you know that all these Australians struggle to read a newspaper, follow a recipe, make sense of a timetable or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle? The National Year of Reading has been designed to focus everyone's attention on reading and to showcase the really important role that libraries play in the school community.

A PLEDGE TO READ [inspired by the writing of Dr Suess]
I promise to read Each day and each night. I know it's the key To growing up right.

I'll read to myself, I'll read to a crowd. It makes no difference If silent or loud.

I'll read at my desk, At home and at school, On my bean bag or bed, By the fire or pool.

Each book that I read Puts smarts in my head, 'Cause brains grow more thoughts The more they are fed.

So I take this oath To make reading my way Of feeding my brain What it needs every day.