Today is Read for the Record Day!
October 27, 2016
Today’s the day to help break a world record – and what better way to do that than reading with your children, family, and friends?
It’s Jumpstart’s Read for the Record®, a national campaign intended to bring children and adults together to read the same book, on the same day, in places all around the world. The campaign was launched over ten years ago to bring awareness to educational inequality issues and help ensure that children from all backgrounds are prepared to start kindergarten.
This year’s book is The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach, has a surprise ending, but you’ll have to read the story yourself to find out what happens to this curious bear — and the sandwich!
Read along with Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey, and his wife Holly, who recorded their UTR video for Read for the Record from the pentagon!
United Through Reading is proud to take part in the Read for The Record campaign, which has grown over the last decade into a hugely successful, world-record-breaking international event:
- Last year, over 2.2 million children and adults from around the world participated.
- In 2013, Jumpstart broke the world reading record by reading with 2,462,860 children and adults and still holds the record today.
- Since the start of this campaign, this one-day celebration has influenced over 17 million people.
Ready, set, R-F-T-R!
As a member of the United Through Reading community, you can help Jumpstart break the world reading record again for the most people reading the same book on the same day. Learn how you can help!
Share your pictures, videos and stories with us by sending them to stories@utr.org or by tagging United Through Reading and Jumpstart in your social posts. And, don’t forget to register to read at readfortherecord.org. Read, set, read!