When young people aren’t engaged in educational activities during the summer, they experience learning loss.
Reading just 5 books over the summer can prevent summer learning loss.
Reading for Pleasure and Summer Reading Programs
Students read more when they can choose materials based on their own
interests. Self-selection, access to books, and sharing books are essential factors in reading motivation and are key elements of summer reading programs.
Students who participated in the public library summer reading program had better reading skills at the end of third grade and scored higher on the standards test than the students who did not participate.
Free, voluntary reading is essential to helping students become better readers, writers, and spellers. Summer reading programs help increase young people’s interest in reading.
Summer reading programs encourage parents to read with their children and highlight the joys of reading aloud. Reading aloud to children at an early age is the most effective way to help them learn language and to communicate with the written word.
Students who read widely and frequently are higher achievers than students who read rarely and narrowly.
Students who read recreationally out-perform those who do not.
Reading empowers critical thinking skills. It can enhance empathy and lead to greater understanding of people who are different from ourselves, and it can help us appreciate other points of view
Reading for pleasure is one of the building blocks needed for young people to grow into healthy, productive adults.
Public libraries help young people feel safe, cared for, useful, and valued.
So, visit your local library this summer and enjoy!!