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Get Reading!

The Summer Reading Program always has opportunities for parent participation. When you bring your children to the library to check out books or to enjoy the fine (and fun!) programming that’s there, you’re participating.

The theme this year, "What’s Cooking at Your Library", encourages some creative ways to join in to make reading fun:

Let your child help with cooking. Reading the recipe, gathering and measuring ingredients, and talking through the process are all literacy activities.

Can your child help with the grocery list? They can write down the items you need. And crayon grocery lists are very pretty!

Maybe you want to begin deeper family conversations about food. Is there a food shelf to which your family can make a donation? Does a community organization need help with a soup kitchen?

You may want to grow some of your food. It’s fun to grow fruits or vegetables. What a good lesson in how we get our food!

You can introduce useful math concepts. Readers keep track of their time read by charting their progress with circles. Each circle represents one hour of reading -- or in the case of pre-readers – time being read to. This is an easy way to introduce fractions. If one circle is 60 minutes or one hour of reading, one half of a circle is 30 minutes. One quarter of a circle is 15 minutes. (It’s fun to have this conversation with a pizza in front of you.)

Let your child see you read. Nothing will impress them with the importance and pleasure of reading than seeing you read. Challenge yourself to read ten or twenty hours this summer. From June 6 through August 29, that works out to only fifteen minutes per day. You can do that! So can your child. When your child brings in their reading record with ten hours of reading noted, they can select a book from our SRP collections. When they read twenty hours, they can select another!

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