If Readers Don’t Read with Volume, Stamina, and Fluency; they won’t make progress. With summer vacation starting this week, we can encourage our children and students to read, read, read over the summer break.
Reading is a skill that requires practice. Just as practice is required to learn how to swim, play baseball, play an instrument, and ride a bike. Children need to read in order to get better as readers.
There is a tremendous volume of research that shows a very strong relationship between the amount of time spent reading and a child’s progress as a reader. This research suggests that in order to maintain grade-level progress, a child needs to be engaged in reading for two hours a day. A child who needs to “catch-up” in the area of reading, requires even more time for reading practice.
The following sites provide nice book lists and reading information.
The first site is a LiveBinder (great web tool).
Feel free to share these ideas with your students and their parents.
Happy Summer Reading!
Happy Summer Reading!
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