Looking for ways to encourage more reading in your kids this summer?
In addition to joining a couple reading clubs over the
summer, we started a contest with the elementary age kids at home. We devoted one wall of the schoolroom to the
Summer Reading Chains competition. Each
chain has the title of the book they read.
Each book, to count towards the program, has to be at their reading
level. They have to tell me a bit about
the book, though I’m not really making it a formal presentation or quiz. I just want to hear the basic plot and their
favorite part(s). They will continue to
add to their chains all summer long.
Whoever read the most on the day school starts, will get a “mystery
prize”. It’s a “mystery” because I haven’t
really thought that part out yet. But both are determined to win that prize!
