Teachers will always tell you that students should read over the summer.  Just 20 minutes of reading a day can help improve your student's reading and the number of words your student experiences.  Students don't necessarily need to complete work over the books that their reading, but quick and easy questions about their story may help students in their comprehension skills.  Things like asking your student what happened or what character they are most like or not like could be easy questions that help a student to reflect on their reading.

According to Reading Eggs, the following is true:

"Benefits & Advantages of Summer Reading Programs:

1.  Encourages life-long reading habits

2. Supports reluctant readers

3. Helps children maintain their reading skills

4.  Stimulates interest in the library and reading

5. Exercises the brain over the summer

6. Increases your child's knowledge base

7. Motivates children to read for fun

8. Prevents summer learning loss

9. Children can participate anywhere

10. Provides an alternative summer activity

11. Improves overall reading skills"

"The summer break is known to cause a pronounced dip or 'slide' in children's reading skills.  A solid summer reading program is a fantastic way to help prevent any learning losses due to inactivity and also provide an educational activity for your children to participate in."

More Proof that Reading is important can be found on Scholastic!  A reminder that "... all formats for reading materials are great.  For instance, graphic novels and comic books are nearly equally as popular among frequent and infrequent readers.

You don't have to make summer reading hard.  This article gives tips and suggestions for reading with kindergarteners that also can flow into our upper grade students.  It's as easy as setting time aside, taking them to a library, reading aloud with them, and letting them choose books that interest them.

These links are helpful for students that want to keep their skill sharp for coming into 6th grade. These skills and recommendations are helpful to keep some of the summer slide from creeping in.

These links are helpful for students that want to keep their skill sharp for coming into 7th grade. These skills and recommendations are helpful to keep some of the summer slide from creeping in.  Students can continue to use IXL diagnostic to continue getting recommendations for skills they can work on.