1. Kids Read Now Eliminating the Summer Slide by Serving Children
OESCA – Madison Champaign ESC
2017/12/19
Kevin Sorice

2. Agenda Summer Slide & Students
Five Pillars of a Successful Summer Program
Family Engagement Research & Strategies MU

3. Outcomes
It is our sincere hope that participants today will develop a deeper understanding of the:
Repercussions of Summer Slide on Students in Poverty
Five Pillars of a Successful Summer Program
Importance of Engaging Families MU

4. Count on Us Count on You To provide relevant & current resources
To share current research & strategies
To be open to your questions
To embrace the research
To examine your own practices
To seek application
MU Count on Me, I’ll Count on You is from the Adaptive Schools model. They are established to ensure there are working agreements within the group.

5. From Richard Allington
Summer reading loss contributes to achievement gap…4 years by 12th grade
No Books = No Voluntary Reading
"The number of books children read and their use of the public library both correlated strongly with socioeconomic status, and predicted summer gains or losses“ (Entwisle, Alexander and Olson 1997, p. 40).
MU Richard Allington’s presentation for further background:
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6. From Richard Allington
12-15 books a summer, 3 year study:
Increased reading development 50% of a grade level, or a little over 2 months increase each summer
At the end of the 3 year period poor kids who got summer books each summer read more than a half year better than the poor students who did not receive books for summer voluntary reading
Keynote from West Michigan Literacy Symposium, Spring 2017
MU Mention that Dr. Allington’s research on the summer slide served as a foundation for KRN, leading into the next slide...

7. Kids Read Now K-3rd Grade Summer Reading Program
Founded in 2010 by Leib and Barb Lurie
Since 2010, Kids Read Now has provided over 160,000 books to almost 27,000 students in 45 school districts across four states
Official partner of National Summer Learning Association
AM The research on the summer slide shows that it has devastating effects on K-3rd graders, which is why the Luries founded KRN.

8. How Kids Read Now Works AM

9. Why Kids Read Now Works
AM Briefly review each pillar

10. Parental engagement
New professional development series helps educators to effectively incorporate research-based principles into their summer reading initiatives
AM Mention the new KRN PD series that dives more deeply into the research on the five pillars. Today we’ll be discussing the research surrounding parental/family engagement.

11. Engaging your Families
Where are your spaces?
What works?
What has not worked?
MU Facilitator just poses questions to think about.

12. Kids Read Now - Family Engagement
Schools host a Family Reading Night
Student gets first three books
Parent gets a Parent Guide written at 4th grade level explaining the program and how to keep their children reading AK

13. Kids Read Now - Family Engagement
Each book has four reading comprehension activities inside the cover
Text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world, creative activity
Written at the Lexile level of the book
Teachers encouraged to model activities in class AK

14. Kids Read Now - Family Engagement
We send each guardian a weekly call, text, or reminder to keep them engaged in the program AK

15. Kids Read Now - Family Engagement
Biweekly motivational messages give parents ongoing tips and tools to keep their kids reading
AK This is what KRN does to engage families, now we’ll look at the research that supports these elements of the program (leading into next slide)

16. Family Engagement - Schools
Educators help families add to their repertoire of strategies for promoting literacy at home, including supporting families to:
Prompt children during reading and writing and demonstrate ways to incorporate literacy-promoting strategies into everyday activities
Support children in doing their homework and in academic learning over the summer months
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17. Family Engagement- Schools
Educators help families add to their repertoire of strategies for promoting literacy at home, including supporting families to:
Promote children’s independent reading
Speak with children in their home/most comfortable language whether or not that is English
Provide literacy-supporting resources, such as:
Books they can borrow or keep
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18. Summer Reading - Schools
A school’s ambitious summer reading initiative supports reading growth by:
Facilitating opportunities for every child to read books and access texts during the summer (ex. public libraries)
Emphasizing books of high interest to children and offering book selections within the likely range of reading levels within each class
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19. Summer Reading - Schools
A school’s ambitious summer reading initiative supports reading growth by:
Providing instruction at the end of the school year to re-emphasize reading comprehension strategies and orient children to summer reading by encouraging use of effective strategies while reading at home
Provide structure guidance to parents and guardians to support reading at home (ex. listen to children read aloud, discuss books, and provide feedback)
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20. Summer Reading
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21. Summer Reading Results
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22. Summer Reading Results
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23. Summer Reading Results
Kevin Sorice
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