Mrs. Amie Crain School Social Worker
Summer is here! I wish everyone a safe and eventful one!Aisha Sultan wrote an article for the Kansas City Star about
"Preventing summer slide: Ways to get your child reading this summer". The following tips are taken from this article.Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), a national children's literacy nonprofit, has a number of ideas to help make this summer a season of reading:
- Combine activities with books. Going to a baseball game? Head to the library and check out a biography about your child's favorite player. Is summer camp on the agenda? See if the camp has a blog you can follow.
- Lead by example. Show kids that you love to read by picking up the newspaper each morning or sharing about something you've read, and they'll understand that reading is important to everyone.
- Relax the rules. Summer is a time when children can read what, when, and how they please. Don't set any requirements, and don't force kids to read something they're not interested in.
- Visit the library. It's got thousands of books and audiobooks to borrow, computers to use, and magazines to leaf through. Make the library your "go-to" destination for the summer.
-Think outside the book. Recognize that reading can happen in many formats, from eBooks to magazines to online read-along stories. Check out www.rif.org/kids for great read-alongs and other fun games and activities designed to keep kids reading.
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