About 42,000 kids across the country participated in the Read With Malcolm Youth Literacy Initiative from Oct. 11 through Nov. 6, totaling more than 30 million minutes read. Fifty state champions were crowned, including Reid Chandler, a student at Fairview Elementary School in Dover. He was crowned Dec. 12 by Mayor Robin Christiansen.
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DOVER — About 42,000 kids across the country participated in the Read With Malcolm Youth Literacy Initiative from Oct. 11 through Nov. 6, totaling more than 30 million minutes read.
Fifty state champions were crowned, including Reid Chandler, a student at Fairview Elementary School in Dover. He was crowned Dec. 12 by Mayor Robin Christiansen.
He read for 6,670 minutes — more than 100 hours. Additional ceremony attendees included Ken Livingston of the United Way of Delaware’s Get Delaware Reading program, City Councilman Gerald L. Rocha, Reid’s parents and other community members.
In February, Read With Malcolm, an effort put forth by NFL Super Bowl champion and children’s book author Malcolm Mitchell, named Fairview Elementary as the 2022 Delaware champion in the fifth annual READMarathon global reading championship.
READMarathon is set up like a running marathon, challenging kids to “read the distance” and set personal records. Fairview students read for a combined 57,000 minutes during that four-week team competition.
