An article in yesterday's Sun-Times, "Are books just as good as summer school?", stopped me in my tracks. As if these smiling faces from one of our Reading Rewards celebrations aren't proof enough, there's new research that shows the importance of children having books to read over the long summer vacation. By sixth grade the "summer slide" in academics accounts for as much as 80% of the achievement gap for low-income students. But not for our Sit Stay Read students--they have Summer Reading Fun Packs to keep them reading and writing all summer long!
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I have very happy memories of long summer afternoons spent in a lounge chair reading. Of course, my mother was an elementary school librarian, so we were encouraged to bring home as many books as we could carry! Read on, SSRers!
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