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Promote Summer Reading at Your School!
It’s All About:
- Giving kids access to books they want to read
- Providing kids the chance to choose what they read
- Motivating kids to practice reading
- Promoting family involvement and uniting the community
Host a Summer Reading Book Fair*
The best time to host your Summer Reading Book Fair is April 1–June 30, 2013- Great books selected specifically for summer reading
- An Impact Report, customized for your school, 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
- In-Fair merchandising materials *If your school has hosted at least one Scholastic Book Fair during the 2012-2013 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
The Scholastic Summer Challenge is a FREE website that reaches three distinct audiences!
Parents
- Find expert tips.
- Sign up to receive email alerts.
- Discover ways to use the Summer Challenge at home.
- Download summer reading booklists.
- Register students by classroom, grade level, or school.
- Track student progress.
- Find tips on how to integrate the program into their classrooms.
- Download summer reading booklists.
- Join their school team to log reading minutes online as they Read for the World Record.
Read for the World Record meets kids exactly where they are in this electronic age. Kids are invited to join their school team in a global effort to set a world record for most minutes read during the summer. Students sign up, read books every day, and then log their reading minutes online. They can continue to track their school’s progress throughout the summer.
Contact Your Book Fair consultant for more details.
- Read for the World Record Student Recruitment Commercial (Video)
- Summer Reading Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Read for the World Record Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Summer Reading Display Instructions (PDF)
- Best Practices for a Successful Scholastic Summer Reading Program (PDF)
- Summer Reading Parent Flyer (PDF)
- Summer Reading Parent Flyer-Spanish (PDF)
- Student Reading Pledge (PDF)
- Student Reading Pledge-Spanish (PDF)
- Summer Challenge Registration How-To (PDF)
- Importing a Class List (PDF)
- Classroom Registered Student Sign-In (PDF)
- Independent Student Sign-In (PDF)
- Summer Challenge Classroom Registration Webinar (Video)
Motivate Students Generate Books Engage Families Encourage Reading