Just in time for summer vacation, Scholastic unveils free summer reading resources for parents to help enhance their children’s reading and learning skills all summer long at scholastic.com/summer. This is all part of the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge.
Check out our FREE summer reading tools we have for parents:
1.) Online summer reading program for kids: Parents can register their children grades K–8 (ages 4–14) for the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge from now until September 5.Kids can log their reading minutes, win prizes and help set a new world record for summer reading. The goal is to beat last year’s summer reading world record of 176,438,473 minutes.
2.) Daily tips and prizes for parents: Scholastic Parents Facebookhas a summer calendar app with expert tips, articles and activities. Every Friday, parents can enter for the chance to win Friday Freebies prizes, including great books for their kids.
3.) Chat live with moms on Google+: Join Teach Mama and No Time for Flashcards bloggers for a chat about ways to keep kids reading all summer on Thursday, June 19 at 9 PM ET.
4.) Track reading minutes with a mobile app: Parents can monitor their children’s progress and help their children enter reading minutes on-the-go with the free Scholastic Reading Timerapp.
5.) 2014 summer booklists: Curated by Scholastic experts, these lists featuremore than 700 books for children in Pre-K–8, including this year’s “Reading Under the Stars”–themed list, which showcases books about space, stars and astronomy, as well as spooky stories to read by a campfire.
6.) Free book offer: Parents can receive a free Scholastic book by mail when they buy two specially marked packs of EVEREADY® Gold® batteries or EVEREADY® flashlights and redeem the package codes online. Visit eveready.com/reader to learn more.
“Now more than ever, summer reading is a priority for all kids so that they don’t fall behind and lose core skills,” said Maggie McGuire, VP of Parents & Kids Channels at Scholastic. “Our free summer reading resources are designed to help parents keep the joy in reading, make it easy to find books kids will love and encourage kids to read more by participating in our global campaign to break the world record for summer reading.”
What tool is most important to you? What's the biggest obstacle you face when you to keep your kids reading over the summer? Add in the comments below.
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