Fifty-four percent of parents said that taking trips to public libraries was one of the top strategies to bolster their kids’ efforts. The same report finds that parents also focus on book access and choice when they encourage summer reading at home. And for most kids, schools are the least-available access point for books during the summer.
According to the Kids & Family Reading Report 7th Edition from Scholastic, conducted in 2019, for example, 53% of kids access books they read for fun from school, and 50% of kids get them from the public library. Research has long supported the importance of these two factors. The companies PW spoke with unanimously named two key elements of effective summer reading programs: access to books-in print and/or digital formats-and the opportunity for students to choose their own reading materials. As educators, students, and parents gear up to meet these challenges, many publishers, ed tech companies, libraries, and nonprofits are expanding their traditional summer reading offerings and/or creating new tools to help. But in the wake of all the disruptions that school districts nationwide have experienced during the Covid-19 crisis, concerns about students’ pandemic learning loss and students’ and educators’ social-emotional well-being have also mounted. Typically, as the school year comes to a close, many educators’ and parents’ thoughts turn to how they can stem summer slide, or the learning loss associated with students’ being away from school-a key access point for books-during summer vacation.
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