Close Out Your Summer Break with Reading Fun!

Host a Reading Marathon to close out the last weeks of summer!  Invite your friends to library play dates, keep a list of the books you read and have a party for every time you read 26 books.

Paint over sized boxes to create a special reading fort.  Add to the fun by bringing out some snacks for a reading picnic in your backyard.  

Bring books to the playground.  Sit together in the shade before you head home for a great wind-down activity.  However you do it, be sure to add reading to your summer schedule.

Many school aged children graduate one grade at reading level, but enter the next grade below grade level due to a lack of summer reading experiences. In the long run, these children read at a lower level when compared to other children who have rich summer reading experiences.  

As parents, you have the power to make reading a part of your child’s summer schedule.  Along with camping, cook outs, days at the pool and beach combing, you can  help make reading a part of what makes summer special!  This love of books will follow your baby through adulthood.