Scholastic Kids: "Summer Reading Counts"

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Scholastic Kids: "Summer Reading Counts"
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Sun, 06-12-2005 - 9:08pm

Do you have kids at home this summer that you'd like to see keep reading?

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Mon, 06-13-2005 - 7:02am
Thanks for the sites- I'llhave to check them out when I can sit down and really look through them. Our local library has a summer reading program and Aidan is excited about signing up for it. She goes through spurts where she loves to read and then spurts where she gets lazy about it and says it's "boring" Anything to keep her excited works for me!

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Mon, 06-13-2005 - 12:21pm

My girls will both come home with Summer Reading Lists {one dd is finishing up 2nd grade, the other finishing up Kindergarten} and we need to go by that, as each dd will have a report to do on one of the titles.


And to be honest with you, those girls are catching up on me with their TBR piles ROTFL!!!

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Mon, 06-13-2005 - 3:05pm

That's great! Our library always has a summer reading program, although I never had much luck getting my DS involved in it - even though he read all the time. I did manage to pick up some of their book lists & introduce him to a few new series. Another local thing we have to encourage reading is through our County Fair. They have a form you can send in - signed by a teacher or parent listing books that you've read in exchange for ride tickets at the fair. There're different requirements for each age group, although they're not real restrictive - I think the older kids have to read 3 books to get 1 ride, and 3 more to get a bonus ride. Even the pre-schoolers can get one for having books read to them. My son ALWAYS did this. When he was about 8-9, they had a special day at the fair with a reading theme, and you could sign up to read out loud from the book of your choice & he did that, too. He read from a Lois Lowry book about Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's little brother. He loved her books until he read "A Summer to Die", which he was really a bit too young for. He wouldn't ever read her after that - although he may have read "The Giver" when it was required for school.

Liz

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