Structure and smiles: start a summer reading club.Summer is the perfect time for children to catch up on their reading. These ideas for groups offer a little structure to the process, but the most important thing of all is to make it fun for them. Get ideas from your children on how they would best enjoy the experience. Family Reading Circle: Parents and family members, why not introduce a book that you loved as a child? Either read the book together, especially if younger children are involved, or gather once the book is read and create a little discussion group with your children. Have them talk about the setting, the characters and how they relate to them. Talk about your fond memories and find out what made an impression on your child. Have them create a drawing or painting based on their favorite part of the story. Friends Reading Circle: Help your child select a small group of friends. See if they can come up with a few books that they would like to look at over the summer. They could pick a theme, for example: scary scar·y adj. scar·i·er, scar·i·est 1. Causing fright or alarm. 2. Easily scared; very timid. scar stories, science fiction, romance, adventure stories, or historical figures. They can agree to meet at alternating homes or at a local library and have short weekly discussion groups, or get together once they've they've Contraction of they have. they've have completed the book. If you can get them to, have them create their own thematically the·mat·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or being a theme: a scene of thematic importance. 2. based short story or poem with art that they can share with each other at the end of the summer. Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Reading Circle: If your child is away from his or her friends, try communicating about a particular book online. Sure it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have less personal, but it creates a bridge for a child who may be feeling a little disconnected from buddies See buddy list. . Other Book Clubs: BackPax Trailblazer's National Summer Bookclub: Founded by Janus Adams, an author, historian and mother, this is a 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. book club for kids ages 8 and over. To find out about becoming a member visit her website at www.JanusAdams.com Read Up! Book Club: Founded by graphic artist Carol Jenkins-Cooper, this is an East Orange, New Jersey, organization that encourages children to read books along with their parents. For children ages 6-9, Read-Up meets from September through June. Contact Ms. Jenkins-Cooper for further information: 973-674-0306. |
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