Great Ideas for Summer Reading

April 24, 2018 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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