Summer Reading Slide...how to help prevent it! Here's an article shared with me by Barbara Saxe, our Reading Specialist - I thought it might be of interest to you:
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How do we prevent this “Summer Slide” and provide all of our children with summer reading opportunities? Here are some suggestions:
- Be sure your child reads at least 20 minutes a day. According to research, a child who reads only 1 minute a day outside of school will learn 8,000 words by the end of sixth grade where a student who reads 20 minutes outside of school will learn 1,800,000 words! If reading isn't one of your child's top priorities, you may need to set up an incentive program.
- Set a good example. When your child sees you reading and enjoying a book or a newspaper article, you are sending a message that reading is important and valuable.
- Read with your child. Explore different types of reading such as poetry. For our little ones, poetry is a great way to improve phonemic awareness skills as poetry often incorporates rhyme. For our older children, poetry is a means of improving fluency.
- Read for different purposes. Reading directions for a recipe or directions for assembling a toy are fun ways of incorporating reading into everyday activities.
- Talk to your child about what he or she is reading. Ask open-ended questions such as “What do you think about that story?” “What would you have done if you were that character?”
- Make reading and writing a regular part of your daily home activities.
- Visit the public library. Participate in their Summer Reading Program.
- Play word games such as thinking of different words to describe the same things.
- Set reasonable limits for television viewing.
Rachel
Rachel D. Ring Reading Plus®
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