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Stories and insights on excellent education.
Stories and insights on excellent education.
Sara Yu – June 19, 2015
Reading challenges are a simple, creative way to inspire the reluctant readers among us and a tool to keep pushing avid readers to new heights. They are also a powerful antidote against summer slide.
Before summer break, our teachers worked with scholars to develop individualized summer reading plans that they took home with them. Scholars planned what they would read, making lists of books that piqued their interest based on their friends’ and teacher’s recommendations. They also thought about what steps they could take when they didn’t understand something they read — especially important for our younger readers!
Plans for middle and high school scholars also included fun summer reading challenges. A fifth grader who loved The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 might accept the challenge of reading all of Christopher Paul Curtis’ books (an endeavor I highly recommend, even for grownups!).
A reading challenge can be anything you make it! Here are some ideas that work for a variety of ages – including grownups – so we can all achieve summer soar!
I think I’ll tackle reading one book from each of the genres listed above, starting with the realistic fiction novel Not If I See You First. What’s YOUR summer reading challenge? Let us know in the comments!
Subjects: Literacy, Reading, Sara Yu, Summer Soar