Summer is the perfect time for your kids to explore the hidden treasures that libraries offer beyond their extensive book collections. From engaging programs to hands-on activities, here’s why you should make the library a regular destination this season.
For visual children who enjoy using their imagination, audiobooks can provide a calming focus and an enjoyable distraction, making it easier for them to relax and enjoy the ride.
Early readers can benefit from time spent on apps. They can make the difference in your child’s reading and vocabulary development. With the help of CommonsenseMedia.org and some other resources, we’ve curated a brief list of apps for your early reader.
I have an easy, fun activity you can do with your young reader to improve reading comprehension, story writing and handwriting. It’s a very simple reading, writing and drawing activity that’s easy to adapt for any reading level.
Now that we’ve decided to make it a summer of reading adventures, here are a few tips to finding books that fit their interest and reading levels. Sound hard? Trust me it isn’t… all you need are your eyes, ears and a little parental discernment.
Reading can be a grand adventure, even for our most resistant kids, and summer is the perfect time to make a change. With a little planning, you can turn reading from a chore into a creative way to play all through the summer.
Let’s start our summer reading adventure with your local library. They know how to make reading fun for your child, and easy on you. Libraries know kids and books and they want kids to read, so they create and host Summer Reading Programs.
Time to kick back and enjoy the lazy days of summer. But danger lurks. If summer days are consistently lazy – a significant amount of that hard earned learning, will start to leak out. So how do we make the most of summer?
I know this last school year has been A LOT for all of us, parents, teachers and kids alike. But, if we do nothing else this summer, daily reading needs to continue in order to improve and maintain academic skills over the summer.
Since reading is the most effective way for our kids to keep their brains active and learning all summer long, why not bite the bullet and make one of your out of the house excursions a visit to your local library.
