Health & Fitness
Help Prevent the "Summer Slide" Visit the Library!
Keeping kids reading over the summer is the best way to help prevent learning loss over the two month break. Find out how the library can help!
It’s finally June! School is coming to a close. Students (and teachers) are anxious to be finished and are looking forward to a much-needed break.
As well-deserved as this break might be, it is really important to keep kids reading over the summer months. The Pearl River Public Library offers two summer reading programs: “One World, Many Stories” for kids and “You are Here” for teens. Registration begins Monday June 20 for children preschool to sixth grade. This year, teen (sixth through 12th grade) registration will be entirely online. Visit the Pearl River Public Library home page beginning June 27 and click onto the “You are Here” button to sign up for the teen online summer reading program.
Statistics show that kids who continue to read during July and August have a better chance of getting back into the school groove that much more quickly come September. The best indicator of whether summer reading loss or gain has occurred is to follow up with how much the child has read during the summer break. The “lazy days of summer” imply just that, a time to slow down and take things easy. The problem with a two-month break is that many kids who don’t read at all, don’t just slow down they often shift into reverse creating a “summer slide.” By the time school begins again these kids have to work that much harder to catch up to where they need to be when entering into the next grade level. In the book The Power of Reading by linguist and educational researcher Stephen Krashen, the author points to two key elements when it comes to kids and reading: children read more when they see others reading and kids who read more are better writers.
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So stop by the public library today or visit us online. The library has multiple copies of all the summer reading books required, shelved by grade level from the Pearl River Public School District and we offer many different types of materials to help keep children, teens and adults reading all summer long!
For more information about children’s programming and summer reading contact Ms. Gunning @ 735-4084 ext. 129. For teens, contact Ms. Linder @ ext. 138.
