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A Spring Challenge to Get Your Students Ready for Our Summer Reading Contest
Teens, choose a free article, photo, video or podcast from three different sections of The New York Times, then tell us what you thought. We’ll publish a selection of your responses in June. (Deadline: May 31)
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Katherine Schulten
April 21, 2026
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Every summer for 16 years now, we’ve invited students to read (or watch or listen to) anything they like in The New York Times and tell us about the experience.
We’ll be doing that again this year
from June 5 through Aug. 14, and, as always, we’ll be offering students dozens of free pieces a week to choose from if they aren’t already Times subscribers.
If you would like to help your students practice this kind of independent reading before turning them loose, our new spring challenge can help.
All your students have to do is choose three articles (or videos, podcasts or photo essays) from three different Times sections; read, listen to or watch them; and then tell us what they thought by submitting the form at the bottom of this post by midnight Eastern on May 31. To further frame the challenge, you might use
this simple, teacher-created exercise
we’ve been recommending since 2021.
At the beginning of June, we’ll call out some of our favorite responses to help students understand what we’ll be looking for this summer. We’ll also share their thoughts with the journalists who wrote the original pieces.
If your school has a Times subscription, students can choose anything from 2026 they like. If they don’t, we have a wide range of options below, all free if you access them from this page. If there’s something else you’d like us to add to this list, just let us know by posting a comment.
Have fun!
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