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Keep students reading

over the summer!

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Motivate students to read even more with the Scholastic Summer

Reading Challenge, a free online website for kids, teachers,

and parents. It features an online challenge inviting students from

all over the globe to set a new world record for summer reading.

Go to

See what can happen when you combine the power of a Summer

Reading Book Fair with the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge:

“We have found that those students who read regularly over the summer come back to

school much more prepared to begin the school year, with regard not only to reading, but

school activities as a whole. As a teacher, nothing makes you feel better than seeing a

reader who was reluctant to read, now reading as a result of the Book Fair and Challenge.”

— Kimee Moore, Newell Elementary School

Research shows summer reading helps students stay on grade level:

“Students with access to books and other reading material over the summer have a

significantly higher level of reading achievement than those without access. In fact, students

in our study continued to reap the benefits of summertime reading throughout the following

school year, when they showed a 35 to 40 percent grade-level increase in reading achievement.”

— Allington, R. L., & McGill-Franzen, A. (2013).

Summer reading: Closing the rich/

poor reading achievement gap.

New York: Teachers College Press.

Be a reading

superhero,

take the challenge!