[CASL-L] Summer reading

[Catherine Ryan]

Our participation needs improvement as well.

fyi
We don't require, but encourage/ask students to read at least two books
over the summer.

We provide a reading log for them to track their reading and ask that they
return the log at the start of the school year for a chance to win a raffle
prize. (eg. Barnes and Noble gift card)  We used a Teen Book Bingo sheet
the first year I came. I remember collecting a lot of bingo sheets that
September! The resource and idea came from the Burke Museum of Natural
History and Culture. A source that may be helpful is
www.spl.org/summeroflearning

We decide on a theme, create flyers including links to reading sources (eg.
Governor's Reading Challenge) and "benefits for summer reading", etc. The
flyer is accessible on the district website.

Last year, we started a June Summer Reading Kick Off Ice Cream Social
event. We invited our community library to promote their reading program as
well as offer library card sign up. The ice cream came from our local ice
cream shop. Students received cinch sac bags (with school name/logo) to
fill up at the event with free bookmarks, ice cream coupons, summer reading
flyer/reading log, and their first summer reading book. We are a 6-8
school, so we invited students coming up from the fifth grade. The upcoming
fifth grade students were the majority of our event participants.

Hope that helps!🙂



On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 1:02 PM Loretta Sullivan via CASL-L <
casl-l at mylist.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I wanted to ask what other districts do for summer reading for students in
> grades 5-8 (middle levels)?  Do you ask for a reading log?  What incentives
> do you offer?  Is there required reading or is it voluntary?  If you can
> share what you have, that would be great.
>
> Our public library also has incentives for summer reading and we advertise
> these to our students before they leave us in June.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas that have worked is appreciated.  We are trying to
> get more kiddos reading over the summer as our participation last year
> needs much improvement.  We would like to do something that is manageable
> for teachers to assess in the fall when students return (we are a school of
> approx. 850 students).
>
> We offer a "reading celebration" in the fall for those students that
> participated in reading over the summer.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Loretta Sullivan
> Library Media Specialist
> Bennet Academy
> Manchester, CT
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Cathy Ryan
Library Media Specialist
Suffield Middle School
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