{"id":4648,"date":"2025-10-16T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4648\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:46:09","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-launch-statewide-reading-challenge-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4648\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder launch statewide reading challenge for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder is marking National Literacy Day by inviting second-grade classrooms statewide to take part in its annual Thunder Reading Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The program aims to encourage students to develop a lifelong love of reading while competing for prizes and recognition.<\/p>\n<p>How the challenge works<\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, Oct. 1, second-grade classrooms across Oklahoma can register to log their reading minutes. The competition continues through March 31.<\/p>\n<p>Monthly and grand prizes<\/p>\n<p>Each month, the 10 schools with the highest average reading minutes will receive prizes. At the end of the challenge, the three top-performing schools will earn cash prizes and individual awards.<\/p>\n<p>Special recognition for the top school<\/p>\n<p>The school with the highest overall reading average will also be rewarded with a Thunder-themed assembly, complete with team entertainers.<\/p>\n<p>How to register<\/p>\n<p>Schools can register now at <a href=\"http:\/\/okcthunder.com\/readingchallenge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">okcthunder.com\/readingchallenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder is marking National Literacy Day by inviting second-grade classrooms statewide to take part in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4257,4256,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-4648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-national-literacy-day","9":"tag-oklahoma","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}