Reading never goes out of style.Favorite book as a child: Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey You’ll definitely make an impression on kids with this old-fashioned way to beat the heat and fill long summer days. We’re excited to help you get books in front of kids and start reading and talking together. I hope you’ll check in here regularly this summer. Just because a young girl loves pink and coming up with new hairstyles for dolls, doesn’t mean she wouldn’t love to spend time looking at cells under a microscope. You also have to show them what’s out there in the world - and not just the things you are interested in or what you think kids are interested in, but the real unknowns. Check in with them about the things that seem energize them, like caring for a pet, karate, or baking cookies with friends. If kids were good at exploring, you wouldn’t be hearing “I’m bored” so often.
And make sure that you aren’t doing your own summer reading under the bed! We can’t expect kids to see the value of reading if they can’t see the important people in their lives doing it.
If you aren’t comfortable reading aloud, try listening to an audio book together.
Reading aloud together offers many opportunities to talk, talk, talk about what you’ve read. Read aloudĪgain, it doesn’t have to be a book. Talk to your kids about what they are reading - no matter what it is - and help them feel validated as readers even when their choice of reading material is not a book. Just because the school or library recommended reading list is filled with book titles, that doesn’t mean kids who prefer online news articles, magazines, comic books, recipes, or even trading cards aren’t reading.
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If you need book recommendations, the free resources from Start with a Book build on what kids already like - dinosaurs, bugs, building, animals, sports, space, music and more - and provide fiction and nonfiction titles along with ideas for activities and suggestions to help get kids thinking, talking, creating and exploring. Connect kids with titles that match their interests and are books they choose to read or have read to them Don’t let your own passion for baseball interfere with your child’s desire to learn to code. Try not to focus so much on what you would like to do with kids or what you think kids should do during the summer months. Start by finding out what kids really want to do this summer Here are a few things to think about as your kids prepare for their own summer reading adventures: We’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with Suzanne Slade and Astronaut Annie’s Journey to the International Space Station and poetry with Laura Purdie Salas, author of If You Were the Moon.Īnd we’ll hear from librarians, teachers, parents, and summer learning providers as they take all kinds of adventures with kids and books this summer, including our friends at Jubilee Housing who will be going on Space Rangers adventures to launch kids reading and learning about stars, our solar system, and space exploration. We’ll hear from delightful children’s book authors including Erica Perl and Leah Henderson. This summer at Book Life and Start with a Book, we’ll have some very special guests offer their excellent ideas about reading, talking, and exploring with kids during these long, warm, sunny days. I’m already signed up for my public library’s summer reading program! But as the days get hotter, summer reading might not be the first thing on kids’ minds. Monsters lived under my bed for goodness sake!īoth heart-pounding as well as some more chill summer reading excitement continues for me to this day. For four-year-old me, that was quite the adventure. Or pick up Norah Smaridge’s The Big Tidy-Up and Miss Suzy by Miriam Young and hide under your bed in the dark and the cool. My first summer as a reader was one of those unbearable hot, muggy Florida summers where you park yourself in front of the air conditioner and look longingly out the window, wishing for a trip to the beach or pool.
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