Educational Activities

Additional Reading and Activity Resources

• Head to Start with a Book for ideas for fun and meaningful interactions around books and things of interest to kids.

• Sign up for Camp Wonderoplis, the online summer-learning destination that’s full of fun, interactive STEM and literacy-building topics for kids and their families.

• Check out Camp PBS Kids from PBS Parents.

• Sign up for the Summer Reading with the BOOK IT! Program and Candlewick Press

Ways to Challenge Kids to Read this Summer

• Visit your local library to find out about summer reading programs in your community.

• Teachers and librarians can register kids for the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge so they can earn digital rewards for summer reading.

• When kids participate in the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program, they earn a free book after reading eight books.

• Do some Summer Reading Together with Learning Ally.

Great Web Resources to Help Raise Readers

• Colorín Colorado provides resources for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in grades PreK-12

• NAEYC for Families helps parents understand how children ages 0-8 learn and offers creative learning ideas to try at home

• National Summer Learning Association focuses on closing the achievement gap through high-quality summer learning for all children and youth

• Reading Rockets offers strategies, lessons, activities and ideas designed to help young children learn to read

• ReadWriteThink provides access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction

• Understood helps the millions of parents whose children, ages 3–20, are struggling with learning

~adapted from Scholastics.com