Reading Recognition Awards
Each year, the Reading Recognition Awards highlight the passionate work of teachers and stakeholders who complete projects that put reading in the spotlight. These projects promote student engagement, perseverance and educational success.
The Reading Recognition Awards are intended to pay tribute to projects that were created in an educational context and that inspire passion for reading and promote the use of various resources.
Congratulations to all the winning projects!
List of prizes
The Ministère de l’Éducation and its partners are proud to showcase the quality and excellence of the projects that won the Reading Recognition Awards.
Awarded by the Ministère
- Pedogogical prize
- Provincial prizes
Awarded by partner organizations
- Promotion of Québec and French-Canadian literature
Association québécoise des professeurs de français du Québec (AQPF) - Library services
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) - Promotion of Québec literature
Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ) - Promotion of reading in elementary schools
Association québécoise des enseignantes et des enseignants du primaire (AQEP) - Effective practices for reading on a digital platform
Association québécoise des utilisateurs d'outils technologiques à des fins pédagogiques et sociales (AQUOPS) - Promotion of the skills of Québec’s illustrators
Illustration Québec (IQ) - Promotion of Québec literature
Communication jeunesse (CJ) - Promotion of reading in a French as a Second Language class or a welcoming class
Association québécoise des enseignants de français langue seconde (AQEFLS) - Integration and optimal use of school library resources
Association pour la promotion des services documentaires scolaires (APSDS)
Eligibility criteria
Projects must:
- comply with the provisions of the Copyright Act
- be completed during the current school year
Projects that have received awards in previous editions of the Reading Recognition Awards are not eligible.
Selection criteria
Selection committees will assess the projects in order to select those that were most involved in their community. They must have sparked the students’ interest and helped them to develop reading habits ans skills.
More specifically, the selection committee will consider the projects based on the following elements:
- Criterion 1: Links with the Québec Education Program
- What QEP elements (e.g. subject-specific competencies, cross-curricular competencies, broad areas of learning) are covered in your project?
- Criterion 2: Impacts
- How does your project promote the development of lifelong reading habits?
- In what ways does it enable students to read a variety of texts in diverse formats? What are the observable elements that demonstrate student engagement in the project?
- Criterion 3: Collaboration
- How does your project promote collaborative work among students or partnerships between schools and families or the community?
- Criterion 4: Links with research
- In what ways does your project draw on research-based practices?
- Criterion 5: Sustainable development
- What actions related to sustainable development have been prioritized in your project?
- If needed, you can learn more about the 16 principles of sustainable development by visiting this web page .
Procedure
Preparation of the candidate’s project
The person in charge of the project must:
- prepare a description of the project
- where necessary, prepare and attach appendices, visual material, audio or visual files, a list of Internet addresses, promotional tools, or any other relevant document that helps better describe the project and highlights student involvement
- inform the school administration of the steps taken and ensure it approves of the project being submitted
When an application package contains images (photos, videos or other) or audio that could allow a student to be identified, the person in charge of the project must ensure that a holder of parental authority is aware of the process and has given their consent for this information to be submitted to the Ministère which will then publish it, mainly on its website. The consent form for photos or recordings of students must therefore be attached to the application package.
Submitting the candidate’s project
Only projects sent using the electronic project submission form will be accepted. Complete the following steps:
- Fill out the electronic project submission form
- If necessary, attach digital files (photos, video, audio) and additional documentation.
- Send the form, files and supporting documents by the end of the nomination period on March 6, 2023.
Contact us
Email 
Reading Recognition Awards
Direction de la formation générale des jeunes
Ministère de l’Éducation
600, rue Fullum, 9e étage
Montréal (Québec) H2K 4L1
Dates
- The nomination period for the 2022-2023 edition ends on March 6, 2023.
Documents
Links
Videos
Winning projects (in French only)