It's my favorite time of year! Hahaha. There's just something about summer reading that reminds me of all the happiest moments of my childhood. For this year's summer reading challenge, I let each of the kids choose one of the categories and I filled in the rest. Drumroll, please, for the this year's 12 Weeks of Summer Reading Challenge:
- Your Choice (Ethan's category)
- Dystopian/Fantasy (Grace's)
- Realistic Fiction (Sophie's)
- Graphic Novel (Jane's)
- Caldecott Winner (Alex's)
- A Classic
- 500+ pages
- More than 100 years old
- New Book, Old Author (a book you haven't read by an author you've already read something by)
- Mom's Choice
- Book of Poetry
- Memoir or Biography
I'm most excited about Mom's Choice (obviously) and for them to read a classic. For Mom's Choice, I've played "what should I read next?" with each of them and then given them 3 options to choose from. There's this podcast that I really enjoy {called "What Should I Read Next?" with Anne Bogel}, where the host has each guest tell her 3 books they love and 1 book they hate and based on those answers, she recommends 3 books for what they should read next, and I love it so much that it's become my new favorite party trick to try and do for family members. Hahahaha. The kids roll their eyes at my efforts, but I think I think I did a pretty bang up job in recommending their options for what they can read for "Mom's Choice." :)
They're off to a pretty good start, but we'll see if they start to lose steam as the summer goes on. There's $100 on the table for each of them, though, so perhaps that will be enough to rally them to the cause! And that's all folk! You'll just have to wait with bated breath for the end of summer recap to see what everyone decided to read. ;)
2 comments:
This is such a great idea. I'm wondering if you have any tips for getting your kids excited about reading in general. Obviously challenges like this help, but is there anything else you did to get them into reading? They all seem like great readers. Also, did you teach them to read or did they learn at school?
We've just always read to them at bedtime -- it's part of our routine. Ethan's actually not a huge reader (it's not something he would go-to if he weren't "encouraged"), but when he gets the right book he can get super into it. Alex seems to be in the same category. My boys were also the only ones who didn't learn to read until they went to school. All three girls were reading very basic, easy reader level books before they started kindergarten. I guess I kind of helped them learn to read, but I wouldn't say I made any strategic or planned out efforts. They just caught on more quickly than ethan or Alex. I've noticed that with all my kids, it takes getting to a certain point where reading just "clicks" and then the fluency takes off.
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