Summer Reading: A Bridge to Literacy

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A Mother Who Reads 10 Books a Day to Her Children, by Kathleen Tessaro. This article focus on Patty Ryall, an Alaskan mother of three, who reads aloud 300 books a month with her children during the summer to instill a love of reading.

http://litsite.alaska.edu/familygatherings/10books.html 

 Parent Tips for Summer Reading, from the Northwest Regional Educational Library. This set of tips focuses on ideas such as building stories with children.

http://www.nwrel.org/comm/monthly/tips.html

Summer Reading Fun, by Mary Brigid Barrett. This article provides many ideas for parents such as using car time for reading opportunities and helping reluctant readers.

http://www.superpages.com/holidays/summer01/fun.html

Summer Reading Suggestions from 62 Fifth Graders, from Jenninca. A fifth grade teacher gives her students’ suggestions for appropriate summertime reading.

http://www.epinions.com/book-review-4E37-598AC2E-3957C42C-prod1

What They Did on Vacation: It’s Not Schools that are Failing Poor Kids, by Gerald Bracey. The Washington Post, January 16, 2002. In this article the author makes the case for summer reading programs for children of lower socioeconomic programs, since they have less access to books than their richer peers.

http://www.communityschools.org/bracey.html

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