Teen Reading Ambassador
Give teenagers a meaningful leadership role around reading, media, creativity and peer encouragement.
What you develop
leadership critical reading peer communication digital literacy initiative
This pathway combines reading activity with communication, service and leadership at an appropriate level for young people roughly ages 13–17.
Recognition
Ambassadors can collect digital badges, mission completions and Reading Passport evidence. Recognition reflects participation and completion; it is not represented as a regulated professional qualification.
Five core missions
Curate a teen reading list
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Create a review or book reel
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Lead a supervised discussion
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Complete a media-literacy mission
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Support a reading event
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Progression
Build consistent reading participation.
Help others discover books and literacy activities.
Support supervised reading conversations and events.
Complete a larger approved reading-leadership project.
Connected to the wider RCI ecosystem.
Ambassadors can link missions to Reading Passport progress, the Literacy App, reading-leadership courses, book clubs, World Book Day and approved school/community activities.