Scholastic Book Fairs Summer Reading Program provides the key elements of a successful summer reading campaign:

• Gives kids access to books they want to read
• Provides kids the chance to choose what they read
• Promotes family involvement and uniting the community
• Introduces a motivating reason to practice reading

Host a Summer Reading Book Fair*

In addition to great books, great tools like the following are available to you:

• An Impact Report, customized for your school, showing how a summer reading program can generate more student reading minutes (available upon request)
• How-to tips and strategies for running a summer reading program
• Reproducible letters and bookmarks for promoting summer reading
• Summer reading signage for your Fair
• Access to downloadable reading activities

*If your school has hosted at least one Scholastic Book Fair during the 2011-2012 school year, the option of a Buy One, Get One Free Summer Reading Book Fair is available to you. Ask your Book Fair consultant for more information.

Join the Scholastic Summer Challenge

A FREE website that offers everything you need for a successful summer reading program:

• Educator support – Easy tracking of students’ reading minutes; classroom activities; customizable reading lists; reproducible tools including Spanish language versions; and more.
• Parent involvement – Reading advice from experts and resources in Spanish
• Student engagement – Book recommendations and everything needed to participate in the ultimate reading challenge – Read for the World Record!

Team up for Read for the World Record!

Our interactive, Web-based challenge invites kids to join a global team to help set a world record for most minutes read during the summer. Students join their school team, choose books to read, and log their reading minutes online. They can track their school’s progress throughout the summer. In 2011, Read for the World Record inspired 101,361 kids from more than 4,100 schools in the U.S. and 22 other countries to set a summer reading record of 64,213,141 minutes! The top 20 schools with the most reading minutes will be listed in the 2013 Scholastic Book of World Records.

Contact your Book Fair Consultant for details.