Summer Reading – Keeping Up Those Skills

Ah summer – the traditional time to relax and have fun! It is important to have a break from the routine of school days, but it is easy to avoid the common lapse in skills over summer vacation.

Don't forget to sign up for the Summer Reading Program!

Here are a few ideas for including literacy practice during lazy days of summer:

• Have children create menus, write our grocery lists and help read labels while shopping.
• Check out lots of picture books and keep them around the house and in the car.
• Look for books that offer short reading snippets that can be shared, such as joke and riddle books.
• Play board games that involve words – Boggle, Scrabble. There are Junior versions for younger children.
• Plan read aloud family picnics in the back yard or at a park.
• Show children how to use maps to plan a family driving trip – even just for running errands.
• Find collections of funny poetry and read aloud one poem every morning at breakfast.
• Check our storytelling CDs and listen to one tale each time you drive to town.
• Check out collections of Aesop’s Fables, read them aloud and talk about the lessons learned. Write your own family fables.v
• Ask your Children’s Librarian for advice on choosing the latest great books.