Recently a Kindergarten teacher, Sarah Martel, and I have created a reading blog for students to use over the summer. The hope is to give students access to stories to prevent summer slide. In case you are not aware of summer slide, the term refers to students losing some of the progress they have gained during the school year. To remain at the same level as when leaving the previous school year is ok, but to slide back level(s) is hard for students and is not in their best interest.Another tool we are using to prevent summer slide is to hype up the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. We have students all excited about competing with other schools by logging their reading minutes over the summer. Right now they are logging their minutes while at school, but hopefully with all of the practice students will continue logging minutes over the summer.
On the blog parents and students can access information about the summer reading challenge, ideas of where to find free books, things to do at home to improve learning, and the blog will feature one Read With Me story every day starting June 10th. Some stories will feature school staff reading picture books and students reading original stories.
