[CASL-L] Summer Reading Ideas?

[Cathy Andronik]

 Do you collaborate with your local public library?  Or with other elementary schools in the district?  Make it a social thing as well as a reading activity, where the kids can talk about the books they've read, suggest books to others, etc.  Also, maybe tie it into the Nutmeg Book Awards for that grade level.
Cathy Andronik(Retired, Brien McMahon HS, Norwalk)
    On Monday, 9 May 2022, 01:02:14 pm GMT-4, Elaine Shapiro <elaine.shapiro7 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I am looking for some new ideas to promote summer reading.  Our district has called it Summer Learning now for years, to include math.  We have been sending home a bingo card, with 25 activities spanning literacy, math, science, social studies, that align with the national summer reading theme.  We also send home a calendar, and invite students to color in the days that they read or do math for 20 min.  They color in bingo squares as well and earn raffle tickets based on how many squares they color on both documents.  There is a drawing at each grade level for Barnes and Noble gift cards.  I talk it up in June, we send robo reminder calls in July.  We post student names on a bulletin board if they bring the materials back in Sept.  I have used a theme of Staying on top of the Reading Mountain (rather than the summer slide imagery).  Only about a quarter of our preK-4 students participate, even after doing this for several years.
Does anyone have any new and effective ideas for increasing participation?Thanks,Elaine Shapiro, Broad Brook School (preK-4), East Windsor_______________________________________________
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