Achieving Summer Reading Success

1. Achieving Summer Reading Success

2. Summer Reading Challenge Overview • Summer Reading Research • Summer Reading Challenge • Summer Reading Program • Summer Reading Book Fair • Read for the World Record • Summer Challenge for Educators • Summer Challenge for Parents • Summer Reading Tools

3. The Summer Reading Achievement Gap • Children who DO NOT READ in the summer can lose two to three months of reading development • Kids who DO READ tend to gain a month of reading proficiency Source: Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard Allington. “Bridging the Summer Reading Gap”

4. Why Should Students Read? • The reading development loss is cumulative causing children from economically disadvantaged families to be as much as 2-1/2 years behind in reading proficiently by the time they reach high school. • 85% of the reading achievement gap between children from high-and-low-income families can be attributed to lack of reading over the summer. • According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 90% of the jobs today require either a technical education or a 4-year college degree. Only 10 percent of jobs require unskilled labor. Source: Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard Allington. “Bridging the Summer Reading Gap”

5. Summer Reading Solution Giving kids access to books leading into summer and allowing students to choose books that most interested them had a significant effect on the summer reading gap, equivalent to a child attending three years of summer school. - Richard L. Allington, and Anne McGill-Franzen, (2003). Reading Psychology, 31(5), 411-427 as cited in “Fun, Sun and Good Books: UT Experts Say Summer Reading Keeps Skills Strong,” Tennessee Today, (July 21, 2010). http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2010/07/21/ut-experts-summer-reading/

6. Children Need Help Selecting “Right Fit”Books • Providing books with no guidance may not help much for students in grades three through five. • But when children get help choosing skill level appropriate books and read those books over summer break, both independently and with guidance from family members, reading achievement scores can improve significantly. Source: Kim, Jimmy. “Summer Reading and the Ethnic Gap.” The Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (2004)

7. Scholastic Summer Challenge: History • Developed to keep kids having fun reading while preventing the “summer slide” - the loss of academic skills when students are not in school • The Summer Challenge invites students to join their school team to log their reading minutes online as they Read for the World Record • In 2013, more than 133,000 students representing all 50 states and 31 countries read and logged an impressive 176,438,473 minutes

8. Osceola Schools • Number of schools participated • More than XXX million minutes logged • Top Osceola schools: • School 1 • School 2 • School 3

9. The Scholastic Summer ChallengeIt’s All About: Giving kids access to books they want to read Providing kids the chance to choosewhat they read Motivatingkids to practice reading Promoting family involvement and uniting the community

10. Access and Choice Provide options for access to books that kids want to read: Book Fairs, Book Clubs Keep school libraries open Community Libraries Book swap/exchange Summer school programs

11. The Summer Reading Book Fair Great books selected specifically for summer reading Gives kids a selection of on-level books Provides access to affordable books Students select books that interest them from a selection of more than 400 titles

12. Motivation and Family Participation • Motivate kids and to practice reading with Read for the World Record. • Students earn virtual prizes • The top 20 schools with the mostreading minutes will be listed in the 2015 Scholastic Book of World Records • The top school in each state will be recognized with a special plaque and also be listed in the Scholastic Book of World Records • Rally the entire school community around the Summer Challenge.

13. The Scholastic Summer Challenge Free Online Hub for Parents, Educators, and Kids The Scholastic Summer Challenge is actually three websites in one, reaching three distinct audiences!

14. Scholastic Summer Challengefor Educators Individual or Multiple student classroom registration Personalized classroom/student dashboard Spanish resources to download and print for parents and students

15. Reading Minutes Estimator The online reading minutes calculator is a great tool for setting student, classroom, and school reading goals. http://www.scholastic.com/ups/campaigns/minutes/kids

16. Classroom Registration The Summer Challenge educator web portal let’s you easily manage school lists.

17. Classroom Registration Tips Here are a few tips and best practices that will help make registering your school’s students easier: • Create one administrator account for the whole school and have classroom teachers use it to sign up and track their own students.   • Get a small team of parent volunteers to sign up the whole school — with one or two people helping, it probably won’t take more than a couple of hours. • Ask local high school students to sign up the whole  school — many need to complete community service hours to graduate.   • Once the lists are done have the volunteers create PDFs and email them to the admin, or save them to a library computer. Once the admin has the PDF they can share with teachers, and even create Excel spreadsheets by copy/pasting the contents into the application.

18. A complete kit for Summer Reading readiness! Reading Champion Tools Summer Reading Success Kit Reading Minutes Estimator Planner Pages Summer Reading Tools CD

19. Resources for Schools Valuable Extras included on the CD: • An Impact Report, showing how a summer reading program can generate more student reading minutes (available upon request) • Reproducible letters and bookmarks for promoting summer reading • Spanish language resources

20. Summer Challenge Key Dates April 7 May 5 September 5 September 30 Teacher site opens for classroom registration Kids can begin entering minutes into Read for the World Record! Scholastic Summer Challenge officially ends Last day for students and teachers to retrieve minutes and print out Summer Challenge stats

21. Support for Parents • Expert advice on how to find books that fit kids’ interests and keep them reading • Mobile app where kids can log their minutes. Parents can track their kids’ reading and access expert reading tips. • Status emails to update parents on their child’s reading progress. • Monthly parent newsletters full of tips.

22. Support for Parents: Workshops • Parents participate in a Summer reading “right fit” books workshop so they can help their child select books to read at their appropriate reading level • Parents and students select “right fit” books to read over the summer from the Scholastic Summer Reading Book Fair