Summer Assignments A Partnership Between Home, School, and the Community

 There is research that indicates that that children learn / grow the same amount during the school year.  Allington, R. L., A. M. McGill-F

 Yet, year after year there is a growing achievement gap.

 The answer is summer reading setback. Summer reading setback is also called summer reading loss and summer slide. In any event, what we know is that any child who spends a summer without reading loses some of his reading proficiency.

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 Summer setback is when children who don’t read during the summer return to school behind where they were when they left for summer vacation. The best estimates provided by researchers indicate that children who don’t read over the summer lose roughly two to three months of reading achievement.

 Elementary students who read books at home over the summer gain as much in reading achievement as students who attend summer school.  Children who do read over the summer actually gain about a month every summer.

 This creates an annual gap of three to four months every year. That gap results in children falling a year behind their peers every three years. So by third grade some children are a year or more behind, by sixth grade two or more years behind, by ninth grade three or more years behind, and by twelfth grade four or more years behind.  National Assessment of Educational Progress.

5 Guidelines for Summer Reading 1.Read whichever books look good to you 2.Nudge children throughout the summer 3.Give children permission to read easy 4.Celebrate reading series books 5.Join a book club

Summer Reading List Virtual Book Club  Books ______ Graders Love!  Fiction (series)  Informational  Moodle

5 Good Reasons to Take Your Children to the Library Today! 1.Regular library visits inevitably lead to more reading. 2.When you visit the library, you can expose your children to more books and magazines than you can afford to buy. 3.Your local children's librarian can recommend books that you may not know of or think to suggest, broadening their tastes and expanding their minds and vocabularies. 4.Library time is active, not passive. 5.Owning a library card teaches kids responsibility.

Summer Playground Program

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This program offers a great opportunity for your students to discover, read and win cool new books all summer long. DOGObooks

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How to Hook Your Children on Books  Make reading non-optional  Build it into the daily routine  Remind them that everything takes practice  Select great stories  Read aloud to your children

Reading Aloud to Your Child  “The single most important activity for building knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” –Anderson, R. et. al., Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading

What the Research Says Research shows that reading aloud leads to many positive outcomes:  Helps children who are beginning to learn to read  Improves listening  Increases a child’s ability to read independently  Increases vocabulary  Increases reading comprehension  Improves verbal expression  Helps children grow as writers  Improves reading fluency  Exposes children to more complex plots