Summer Reading 2023

It’s summertime!  

Time for our students to kick back, relax, enjoy family, play outdoors and READ!  This summer it's more important than ever for all Wolverines to read daily to prevent the dreadful…..awful...scary...….(but fully preventable)....….Summer Slide.  

What is Summer Slide?

Studies show that kids lose significant knowledge in reading and math over summer break, which tends to have a snowball effect as they experience subsequent skill loss each year. A recent study of children in 3rd to 5th grades showed that students lost, on average, about 20 percent of their school-year gains in reading and 27 percent of their school-year gains in math during summer break. 

Learn more about Summer Slide from the Colorado Department of Education. 

How can we prevent Summer Slide?

1. Give students ACCESS to books 

• Get a High Plains Library District library card.

• Get books from the High Plains Library 

• Check out these FREE online books. 

2. Give students CHOICES in what they read. 

• Check out these book recommendations.

3. Make Summer Reading FUN!

As always we strongly encourage students to participate in the High Plains Library District Summer Reading Program. 

• • Register online for High Plains Library Summer Reading Program Starting June 1. If High Plains is not your library visit the public library near you  .

Want extra resources for Reading Fun?

• • Check out Scholastic's Summer Reading Bingo.

  • Check out the Scholastic Summer Reading Program. 

 4. Give students the opportunity to SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW!

• • Tell a friend or family member about your book.

  • Email Mrs. Granrud about your book. Did you like it? Why or why not? What was your favorite part?

  • Draw a picture of a scene from your book. 

  • Create a video Book Review. 

  • Write a poem about your book. 

  • Pretend you are the main character in our book, write a journal entry describing a day in your life. 

  • Complete a Book Review Form.