Summer Reading Spotlight: Stoughton 2017 Overview Summer reading loss can affect any student, given that reading skills can wane when school is not in session. Building on the positive findings from two years of research on a summer reading initiative in Greenville, SC, 1 Scholastic collaborated with Stoughton Public Schools (SPS) to develop, implement, and research the impact of a similar and tailored summer reading initiative in Stoughton, MA. Make Summer Count (MSC), a summer reading initiative sponsored by Public Education Partners (PEP) and Greenville County Schools, served as the model Scholastic and Stoughton Public Schools (SPS) used to implement Summer Reading Spotlight: Stoughton 2017 (SRS). 2 Like MSC, Summer Reading Spotlight consisted of two targeted research-based opportunities for literacy engagement: the SRS Book Selection, which helped students build home libraries by allowing them to self-select books to take home and read over the summer; and Family Literacy Nights, where families were invited to learn strategies to support their children’s reading over the summer, and where children received additional books to take home. Research Overview Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, in collaboration with SPS, designed a study in which three schools received support for summer reading at the end of the academic year in June 2017 (the treatment group); and two schools received the same resources only after the summer and at the end of the study in the fall/winter of 2017 (the control group). By designing a study that provided some students and families with resources over the summer, while others received the same resources at a different point in time, we were better able to determine the potential impact of SRS. The research focused on the impact of the summer reading initiative on students’ and families’ attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, and included an exploratory review of students’ reading levels as measured by standardized test scores provided by the district. 3
1 Please visit the blog edu@scholastic for findings from Make Summer Count 2016 and 2017: http://edublog.scholastic.com/ 2 https://publicedpartnersgc.org/what-we-do/make-summer-count/ 3 AimswebPlus Oral Reading Fluency Scores Massachusetts
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