FEATURE/Don't Let School Skills Slide This Summer for Your Kids; Parents Need Ways to Prevent Reading Habits from Taking a Vacation.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Photo Editors/Business Editors/Education Writers FEATURE... MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4660404 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004 As summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. begins for kids across the country, many children will be given their summer reading lists. All children need to continue reading during the summer break. With research indicating that kids can lose a month of academic skills if they don't read over the summer, parents also want to insure that their kids will also have fun. But what can parents do that will combine both reading and easy-to-do activities? Read It! Play It! (ISBN/0972105018/suggested price $10) offers parents a suggested reading list of 50 books for kids 3-8, as well as ways to help kids keep their language, math, science and writing skills sharp while on summer vacation. As authors of Read It! Play It! and contributors to The Today Show, Joanne and Stephanie Oppenheim, encourage parents to share a wonderful book with their children and then do a related project. They also suggest FIVE TIPS for making your child a better reader: -- Share your pleasure of reading. -- Talk about the story. -- Take cues from your child's interest. -- Build a library of their favorite books. -- Keep reading-even to readers. Designed for busy parents, several projects can include: -- Arts & Crafts: exposing kids to other cultures through crafts/Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella. -- Kitchen Science: making crayon crayon, any drawing material available in stick form. The term includes charcoal, conte crayon, chalk, pastel, grease crayon, litho crayon, and children's wax colors. muffins and butter/Colors Everywhere and If You Give a Pig a Pancake pancake, thin, flat cake, made of batter and baked on a griddle or fried in a pan. Pancakes, probably the oldest form of bread, are known in different forms throughout the world. . -- Dramatic Play: putting on your own circus/Olivia Saves the Circus. Joanne Oppenheim, one of today's most trusted authorities, is the author of 50 books for and about children. She has taught hundreds of kids to read as a first and second grade teacher. Her daughter, Stephanie Oppenheim is the co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor n. A collaborating or joint author. tr.v. co·au·thored, co·au·thor·ing, co·au·thors To be a collaborating or joint author of: "He and a colleague . . . of the consumer guide, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. A child development expert, Stephanie is a leading consumer authority on children's media. Sponsors Toys "R" Us Toys "R" Us (currently typeset as ToYsЯuS in the logo) is a toy store chain based in the United States, Canada, Australia,The Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Children's Fund and LeapFrog are making it possible to make a donation of 10,000 copies of Read It! Play It! to Reading Is Fundamental (RIF Rif (rĭf) or Rif Atlas, range of the Atlas Mts., NE Morocco, NW Africa, curving along the Mediterranean coast from Ceuta to Melilla. Tidighin (8,056 ft/2,455 m) is the highest peak. ), the nation's leading children's literacy organization. A donation of $1.00 will be made to RIF for every book sold. MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4660404 |
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