Read aloud together with your child every day.
Make it fun by reading outdoors on the front steps, patio, at the beach or park. Also, let your children read to you. For younger children, point out the relationship between words and sounds.
Set a good example!
Parents must be willing to model behavior for their children. Keep lots of reading material around the house. Turn off the TV and have each person, including mom and dad, read his or her book.
Read the same book your child is reading and discuss it.
This is the way to develop habits of the mind and build capacity for thought and insight. Let kids choose what they want to read, and don't turn your nose up at popular fiction. It will only discourage the reading habit.
Buy books on tape, especially for a child with a learning disability.
Listen to them in the car, or turn off the TV and have the family listen to them together.
Take your children to the library regularly.
Most libraries sponsor summer reading clubs with easy-to-reach goals for preschool and school-age children. Check the library calendar for special summer reading activities and events. Libraries also provide age appropriate lists for summer reading.
Subscribe, in your child's name, to magazines like Sports Illustrated for Kids, Highlights for Children, or National Geographic World. Encourage older children to read the newspaper and current events magazines, to keep up the reading habit over the summer and develop vocabulary. Ask them what they think about what they've read, and listen to what they say.
Ease disappointment over summer separation from a favorite school friend by encouraging them to become pen pals.
Present both children with postcards or envelopes that are already addressed and stamped. If both children have access to the Internet, email is another option.
Make trips a way to encourage reading by reading aloud traffic signs, billboards, notices.
Show your children how to read a map, and once you are on the road, let them take turns being the navigator.
Encourage children to keep a summer scrapbook.
Tape in souvenirs of your family's summer activities picture postcards, ticket stubs, photos. Have your children write the captions and read them and read them aloud as you look at the book together.
This is a brand new summer reading camp funded by the Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction to provide upper elementary students with positive and fun reading experiences through literature circles. Literature circles incorporate independent reading and cooperative learning.
Current fourth and fifth graders will be accepted.
Attitudes toward reading dramatically decline beginning in fourth grade. According to National Assessment of Educational Progress results, the number of children who said they read for fun almost every day dropped from 43% in grade 4 to 19% in grade 8 (Rich, 2007). This summer camp will focus on reading for fun to promote lifelong reading habits.
Students will read a novel in small groups called literature circles.
Key Features of Literature Circles
Monday, June 9-Friday, June 13
9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
| 8:45- 9:00 |
Drop-off |
| 9:00-10:15 | Reading Time |
| 10:15-10:30 | Snacks |
| 10:30-12:00 | Literature Circle Discussion and Activities |
| 12:00-12:15 | Pick-up |
Della Davidson Elementary School
209 Commonwealth Blvd.,
Oxford, MS 38655
This summer camp is FREE to all participants. However, enrollment will be limited.
The application must be competed and returned to your school office no later than Friday, May 2. Remember, enrollment is limited.
Click here to download the form. (PDF, 324KB)
Angela Rutherford,
araines@olemiss.edu
662-915-7625
LeAnn Carter,
nlcarter@olemiss.edu
662-915-1392
