Summertime is an opportunity for students to expand their horizons, reading books of their choosing and exploring their interests. For some students, it can also be a time of learning loss as they lose some of the progress they made during the school year during the extended vacation.
Building a daily reading routine can go a long way toward preventing summer slide: research shows that even reading 4 to 6 books over the summer can prevent any decrease in reading skills from spring to fall.
All reading counts: reading self-selected books independently, reading with a friend or family member, being read aloud to, listening to audiobooks. All of these activities will benefit children over the summer. Here are some suggestions and resources to ensure students maintain their literacy skills after all their hard work this year.
Resources:
Summer Reading Program Department of Libraries
compiled by the ALA by age group.
22 Diverse Book Choices For All Grade Levels
a collection of podcasts for every type of listener.
Online Book Access:
*SORA Our digital school library of ebooks, read-alouds, graphic novels & audiobooks AND you can add in Dorothy Alling’s digital library Overdrive collection
Other Literacy Recommendations:
10 weeks of Summer Reading Adventures from Reading is Fundamental
Complete a reading treasure hunt!
Play Word Board games with your child! Bananagrams, word searches, Quiddler, hangman, Boggle, and word scrambles are a few fun activities to try.
Keep a summer vacation journal together.
Start a pen pal relationship with a family member or friend. This can also be done via email.
Rising 1st-3rd graders: Practice your high-frequency words!
Rising 1st graders: Fry words 1-25 (pages 1-6)
Rising 2nd graders: Fry words 1-100
Rising 3rd graders: Fry words 1-100, 101-200