Approved Summer Reading List  --- (April 29, 2008) 

Many children, especially struggling readers, forget some of what they've learned or slip out of practice during the summer months. Read to help your children keep the academic skills they learned last year. Support them as they read. Give them material that is motivating – and some of it should be easy. Help them enjoy books and feel pleasure—not pressure from reading. The summer should be a relaxed time where their love of learning can flower. Your child walks like you, talks like you, and absorbs everything you do. So set the right example when it comes to reading.

To find out more about helping your child become a more fluent reader, visit Reading Rockets on the Web at www.readingrockets.org. For Spanish-speaking children, please visit the Colorín Colorado at www.colorincolorado.org.

Cool summer reading is the perfect antidote for those hot summer days! Enjoy.