How to Keep Your Child Excited About Summer Reading

The Fight Against Sumer Slide/The Fight For Summer Reading

It may not seem it, but summer can be a tough time on the minds of young ones. Although there are so many fun activities to participate in, it is during the summer months that many students fall victim to summer slide.

You remember summer slide – that horrible ailment that occurs when students mentally shut off for a few months and forget every thing they learned the previous school year.

We at Traveling Stories understand that it can be difficult to keep your children excited about reading when there are so many other summer activities vying for their attention.

Fear not though, as we have a solution for you!

How to Encourage Your Child to Read During the Summer

Kids love events full of fun and excitement, and there is no reason reading cannot fall in to both of those categories. The real trick to keeping your child interested in reading during the summer months is to make reading fun (Well ok, even more fun than it usually is, because lets face it – reading rocks)!

Try our FUN SUMMER READING CHECKLIST!

This checklist will help put an interesting twist on summer reading, and give your child a something to work towards!

• READ BY FLASHLIGHT

• READ A BOOK IN A SILLY VOICE

• READ A COMIC BOOK

• READ A BOOK AS A FAMILY

• READ A BOOK ABOUT A COUNTRY

• READ UNDER A TREE

• READ A BOOK ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

• READ A BOOK ABOUT SPACE

• READ A BOOK IN A BLANKET FORT

• READ A BOOK TO A PET

• READ A BOOK WITH A COLOR IN THE TITLE

• READ A BOOK WITH CHAPTERS

• READ AT BREAKFAST

• READ A BOOK ABOUT A CITY FAR AWAY

• READ A BOOK OF POEMS

• READ A BOOK ABOUT A FAVORITE ANIMAL

• READ A MYSTERY

• READ A FUNNY BOOK

• READ TO A SIBLING

Make it a personal goal, with perhaps a prize for completing the list! Make it a family challenge, race to the finish and see who can check off all the different books first!

Take it to the pool, take it to the beach, you can even take it under a nice shady tree.

Regardless, just make it fun!

Reading Resources for Children

Visit our Reading Resources page to explore some of our favorite reading resources to help children read more at home, including free online books, free digital comics to download, a list of our favorite places to purchase children’s books, and our favorite local San Diego authors.