The project involved a collaboration between teams to develop a strategy for enhancing and prioritising learners’ reading skills, thus promoting effective engagement in independent reading. The strategy used a reading challenge to encourage learners to access a wide variety of textual material and construct reflective comments, as well as reviewing the content of the material to clarify their personal perceptions. As the project progressed learners were able to share their insights with greater confidence; this helped them to consolidate their reading skills and move on to the next stage of their learning with greater appreciation of their capacity for reading.