Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program
The Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program is a statewide reading motivation program for students in grades 3-5. The program, cosponsored by the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME), began in 1983. The purpose of the SSYRA Program is to encourage students to read independently for personal satisfaction, based on interest rather than reading level. Sunshine State books are selected based on their wide appeal, literary value, varied genres, curriculum connections, and/or multicultural representation. Students are encouraged to read books that are above, on, and below their tested reading level in order to improve their reading fluency. There is also a SSYRA Jr. list of books for grades K through 3.
