Kids Read Now Eliminating the Summer Slide by

Kids Read Now Eliminating the Summer Slide by Serving Children OESCA � Madison Champaign ESC 2017/12/19 Kevin Sorice 937 -963 -9209 kevin@kidsreadnow. org

Agenda ● Summer Slide & Students ● Five Pillars of a Successful Summer Program ● Family Engagement Research & Strategies

Outcomes It is our sincere hope that participants today will develop a deeper understanding of the: ● Repercussions of Summer Slide on Students in Poverty ● Five Pillars of a Successful Summer Program ● Importance of Engaging Families

Count on Us Count on You ● To provide relevant & current resources ● To share current research & strategies ● To be open to your questions ● To embrace the research ● To examine your own practices ● To seek application

From Richard Allington • Summer reading loss contributes to achievement gap… 4 years by 12 th grade • No Books = No Voluntary Reading • "The number of books children read and their use of the public library both correlated strongly with socioeconomic status, and predicted summer gains or losses“ (Entwisle, Alexander and Olson 1997, p. 40). Keynote from West Michigan Literacy Symposium, Spring 2017 5

From Richard Allington • 12 -15 books a summer, 3 year study: • Increased reading development 50% of a grade level, or a little over 2 months increase each summer • At the end of the 3 year period poor kids who got summer books each summer read more than a half year better than the poor students who did not receive books for summer voluntary reading

Kids Read Now • K-3 rd Grade Summer Reading Program • Founded in 2010 by Leib and Barb Lurie • Since 2010, Kids Read Now has provided over 160, 000 books to almost 27, 000 students in 45 school districts across four states • Official partner of National Summer Learning Association

How Kids Read Now Works

Why Kids Read Now Works

Parental engagement • New professional development series helps educators to effectively incorporate research-based principles into their summer reading initiatives

Engaging your Families • Where are your spaces? • What works? • What has not worked?

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement • Schools host a Family Reading Night • Student gets first three books • Parent gets a Parent Guide written at 4 th grade level explaining the program and how to keep their children reading

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement • Each book has four reading comprehension activities inside the cover • Text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world, creative activity • Written at the Lexile level of the book • Teachers encouraged to model activities in class

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement • We send each guardian a weekly call, text, or email reminder to keep them engaged in the program

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement • Biweekly motivational messages give parents ongoing tips and tools to keep their kids reading

Family Engagement - Schools Educators help families add to their repertoire of strategies for promoting literacy at home, including supporting families to: • Prompt children during reading and writing and demonstrate ways to incorporate literacy-promoting strategies into everyday activities • Support children in doing their homework and in academic learning over the summer months 16

Family Engagement- Schools Educators help families add to their repertoire of strategies for promoting literacy at home, including supporting families to: • Promote children’s independent reading • Speak with children in their home/most comfortable language whether or not that is English • Provide literacy-supporting resources, such as: • Books they can borrow or keep 17

Summer Reading - Schools A school’s ambitious summer reading initiative supports reading growth by: • Facilitating opportunities for every child to read books and access texts during the summer (ex. public libraries) • Emphasizing books of high interest to children and offering book selections within the likely range of reading levels within each class 18

Summer Reading - Schools A school’s ambitious summer reading initiative supports reading growth by: • Providing instruction at the end of the school year to re-emphasize reading comprehension strategies and orient children to summer reading by encouraging use of effective strategies while reading at home • Provide structure guidance to parents and guardians to support reading at home (ex. listen to children read aloud, discuss books, and provide feedback) 19

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Summer Reading Results http: //kidsreadnow. org/book Kevin Sorice 937 -963 -9209 kevin@kidsreadnow. org 23