“Children whose families encourage at-home literacy activities have higher phonemic-awareness and decoding skills, higher reading achievement in the elementary grades, and advanced oral language development” (Padak & Rasinski, 2007 p. 350).
The following resources are intended to be shared with families by educators in order to support literacy development in the home.
[WSEAtutoring]. (2013, June 18). How to prevent reading loss through summer reading- Naperville tutors [Video File]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m25-TH7TGI
Tips for Encouraging Reading
This video could be shared with parents as a means for communicating simple tips to keep kids reading throughout the summer.
Reading Tips by Developmental Stages
This website includes printable pages full of tips for parents to foster reading development at home. There are pages for several developmental stages (baby through third grade), and each one comes in many different languages.
Reading Rockets. (2018, February 26). Reading Tips for Parents (in Multiple Languages).Retrieved from www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-tips-parents-multiple-languages.
Mraz, M., and Rasinski, T. V. (2013, November 7). Summer Reading Loss. Retrieved from www.readingrockets.org/article/summer-reading-loss.
Advice for Parents of Early and Advanced Readers
This article was written by two experts in the field of summer reading loss, Maryann Mraz and Timothy V. Rasinski. While the target audience is educators, the authors also include a table of literacy tips for early and advanced readers, which could easily be printed and shared with families.
Resources for Helping Children Select Books
The website to the right contains summer reading lists from the Association of Library Service for Children. The site contains downloadable brochures with reading lists for children ages birth through eighth grade.