I hate to admit it, but summer will be here before we know it. My daughter’s school participates in a summer reading challenge, and there is the summer reading program at the local library, too. It’s a good thing she loves to read, but I know a lot of kids need some motivation in order to stick with those reading goals.
The Many Little Joys has a great post on summer reading, with ideas for challenging kids to read more (and different) books, why reading in the summer is so important for kids and how to make it fun.
Her post includes a printable chart they used to challenge her son to read 50 books in a summer.
If you need a reading log instead of a book tracker for older kids, I made a summer reading log printable that I shared at Our Daily Craft a couple of years ago. It has spaces for the date, the book being read, when reading time started and ended and the total for the day or session.
Admittedly we usually just try to keep track of time and not always the book that was being read, but it’s fun to look back at the end of the summer and see all the books you read.
How do you encourage summer reading? I’d love to hear about it!
[Photo: The Many Little Joys.]
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