"reading contest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a competition in which participants try to read books as quickly or accurately as possible in order to win a prize. For example, "The library was hosting a reading contest for teens to see who could finish the most books in one month."
Every June, July and August, for instance, we host a summer reading contest.
Since pretty much everything in The Times fits that definition, our reading contest is an easy way to start.
Because pretty much everything in The Times fits that definition, our reading contest is one way to practice.
— BrandonK-BSGE2016 We promise we didn't plant, pay for or otherwise cajole BrandonK-BSGE2016 to post the comment above to the first week of our summer reading contest.
You can use the collection for teaching and learning or, this summer, as a handy spot to find interesting articles for our summer reading contest.
It's why the liveliest part of the blog has always been the daily Student Opinion question, and why we run features like our new photojournalism activity and our summer reading contest.
If so, look no further, since from June 15 to Aug. 17, we'll be running our third annual New York Times summer reading contest, and that's exactly what the contest encourages.
That, along with our own summer reading contest, inspired us to ask you what you'll be reading this summer, and what great summer memories of reading you would like to share.
So we'd like to point out that our reading contest allows students to react not just to articles, but also to Times photographs and videos — and they can choose anything that was published this year.
Those materials include a sign for Poston's library, a poster about a summer reading contest, a class scrapbook project on the causes of war, and a yearbook from the camp's high school.
