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Introduction
As educators, you are familiar with the challenges that teachers and students face when school resumes each fall after the summer break. Learning recovery is real. It costs teachers and students valuable time and energy as everyone scrambles to regain their academic bearings and reinvigorate the teaching and learning process. According to research, giving kids access to books and reading-related materials is perhaps the most powerful way to keep students on track over the summer. Some studies have shown that, without regard to ethnic or socioeconomic level, kids who read five or more books over the summer perform better on reading comprehension tests in the fall than their peers who have read one or no books. Scholastic’s My Books Summer, a summer reading program for Grades PreK through 12, is committed to providing books to kids for exactly that reason (Kim 2004). But the good news is that we CAN successfully support learning recovery instruction. Scholastic’s My Books Summer provides literacy support during the summer months. We hope that this program will help you lead the way to a summer leap! Our intention is straightforward. We want students’ literacy skills and their engagement with reading and writing to continue to grow over the summer. Our means are direct. We provide books and related materials for children to take home for the summer to keep and enjoy. Our ends are simple but essential. We hope to have students return to school in the fall prepared to pick up where they left off at the summer break—perhaps even ahead of where they left off!
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