Encourage a lifelong love of reading with a summer enrichment-reading program.
When school is out for the summer, children are ready to spend their days outdoors and playing with their toys. For many, picking up a book and reading is the last thing on their mind. As a parent, you can encourage your child to continue reading throughout the summer with a reading enrichment program.
Scholastic Summer Challenge
The Scholastic Summer Challenge is for children ages 7 and up. It is designed to keep kids motivated to read through an engaging online platform that allows them to track minutes read, create an avatar and be a part of a community of other children participating in the challenge as well. Upon sign-up, your child will choose the genre of book they like best and have the option of tracking the progress of their school in the challenge, with your permission. As your child reads and tracks her minutes she will earn rewards and see how close she is to breaking the world record of number of minutes read during summer reading. As a parent, you have access to articles and book lists to help your child get the most out of her summer reading as well as teacher tools such as pledge forms, bookmarks, book review templates and graphic organizers.
Collaborative Summer Library Program
The Collaborative Summer Library Program provides summer reading programs for children and young adults. If the local library in your neighborhood is participating in the program, children are provided with a themed reading list for the summer, reading logs and incentives. Libraries participating in the Collaborative Summer Reading Program offer the children a variety of items from games to arts and crafts that coincide with the suggested reading material. Library facilitators may also hold regular meetings for the children to engage them in the reading process.
Barnes and Noble Summer Reading
The summer reading program at Barnes and Noble rewards children with free books. Download the passport to reading for your child; here they will record the title and author of eight books along with places that they visited in the book. When they have filled out the passport and you have signed it, they can turn it in at a local Barnes and Noble for a free paperback book listed on their passport. Along with the incentive program, you can encourage and enrich your child's summer reading by downloading the parent activity kit. The activity pages coincide with lessons in the down-loadable educator kit that you may use. It will encourage your child to research and work on his own storytelling skills.
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