QOTW: Summer Reading

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Mon, 05-28-2007 - 12:01pm

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Registered: 12-16-2003
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 6:50am
My kids read every night except Friday nights year round. I don't have them do that when we are traveling though, so they get tomiss a lot of reading. Both kids particopate in summer programs at the library. They will usually read on their own through out the week as well.

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Registered: 09-01-2006
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 8:57am
Hannah likes to read. She's looking forward to reading the next Harry Potter. What's the name? Hum???? I haven't even read the 3rd one.
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Registered: 03-27-2005
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 9:10am

I don't have to require my son to read. He's constantly got his nose in one book or another. With several spring/summer releases awaiting him I don't think reading will be an issue this year outside of him reading too much.

Usually he participates in the library's teen reading program. For every book they read off the summer reading list a donation is made to a charity. Last year it was an animal rescue group. Not sure what the charity will be this year.

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Registered: 09-26-2003
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 9:49am
I always have the best of intentions.

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 12:08pm

In the vast mix of available activities, kids should WANT to read as much as they WANT to go outside and play. If reading has been modeled by parents as an interesting and entertaining pass-time, kids will develop a love of reading by the age of 7-8 that will continue without a lot of coaxing. Both my kids love to read and choose their own reading materials. I see them in a chair with a book almost as often as I see them at the computer.

The school Aubrey is attending next year does have summer reading assignments. She has to read "To Kill A Mockingbird," (my all-time favorite!) and one book from the "A" list, one from the "B" list. She's chosen "Watership Down" from the A list and "The Borrowers" from the B list.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-29-2007 - 1:37pm
I thought my DD would be a bookworm. She has seen me reading her whole life, I buy her copius quantities of books, I've read to her all her life and still do, but she doesn't like to read to herself. She would sit and listen to me read for hours, she loves stories, she loves books, but doesn't like reading. I'm wondering if its genetic, her father never liked (and still doesn't) like reading. So even though I think I've modelled good reading it doesn't seem to have caught on. I keep hoping it will sink in sooner or later. LOL But I keep plugging away and trying to keep her interested. She's looking forward to Harry Potter but we do that together, not sure she would read it at all if she was left on her own with it.

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Wed, 05-30-2007 - 2:14pm
wow everyone here is great at reading....
Jackie will read a book if she wants, she is not a child who will read often. This last year she has read more books than I could possibly think so I am happy with that. I do and have always encouraged her to read. But its not enforced. She loves to buy and pick them out but reading them is not her strong point. I have them available when she wants to read them. I am tired of them being all over my house right now. So I am putting the 50 plus books she does have on the shelf in her room so she will read them......
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Registered: 01-23-2005
Wed, 05-30-2007 - 6:56pm

Aaron has developed a love for reading and we are so pleased! He was in the Accelerated Reading program at school and earned enough points this year to go out to lunch with the teacher in a limo! Whoo Hoo! He is always reading a book about animals, baseball, a game guide, comic book, Ripley's Believe It Or Not...I don't care, as long as he's reading something.


Readers Rock!!!

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Registered: 09-26-2003
Wed, 05-30-2007 - 11:33pm
Hi Julie, it has been awhile since you have been here--nice to see you again!

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Registered: 03-30-2003
Thu, 05-31-2007 - 11:54am

Both of my kids love to read. All I ask of them is to do a summer reading program at the library, and actually participate in it. My 10 year old does the kids' program, my 13 year old does the teen program.

The 13 year old is in all honors classes at school. These kids have a reading list over the summer, and they have to read books from the list. I think it's at least 1, it may be more than that for 8th grade (which is what dd is going into). Her school has a summer AR program, where the kids can come in once a week and take AR tests, those points count towards the first 9 week grading period. It's not something that's required, though I've heard grumblings from the librarians that this prinicipal may make all of the kids at school take at least 1 AR test over the summer.

The 10 year old doesn't have to read anything for school over the summer. She's a VERY good reader, and it's starting to get hard to find books at school that she can read for AR points. The kids have to read at or above the level they test at, and dd is quickly growing out of most of the books at the school library. So over the summer, I tell her she can read whatever she wants- within reason. No picture books. No really easy chapter books. And she does a pretty good job picking out what she wants to read.

And- my 13 year old is going to volunteer at the library 2 hours a week this summer. She's excited about it.

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