Want to read cool books and enter to win prizes? Check out the Bona Fide Bookworm Summer Reading Program for adults 2021!
This fun Summer reading challenge for adults helps you read three books: one set in Summer, one set at the beach, and an escape read.
The Summer Reading Program at the Wichita Falls Public Library in Wichita Falls, TX came to a close at the end of July. This summer, we were fortunate to be the recipients of the ALSC/BWI Summer Reading Program Grant, which enabled the library to provide quality programs to youth of all ages in our community. Our theme this summer was Get a Clue…at the Library, and many of our programs involved a mystery aspect. Some of our mystery-themed programs included: Murder Mystery Night: Our original plan was to have staff members perform a murder mystery play for our patrons. However, time and staffing constraints caused us to come up with a Plan B, which consisted of inviting the Actors Creating Together 4H Club to put on the murder mystery. Rather than putting on a play, we created crime scenes throughout the library, in the Youth Department, Teen Zone and Bookstore. ...
There are resources for kids' book tastings, but what about the grown people? Here's a how-to for hosting a book tasting for adults at a public library.
Ultimate summer reading programs for kids guide and updated 2024 summer challenge for reading rewards and free book programs! A summer kids reading challenge are great additions for kids summer fun and great programs to encourage and help kids read for free prizes. Check out these children's summer book list ideas for freebies, incentives and fun reading activities at home, including best online reading program for struggling readers!
Free reading incentive programs for 2024 are here! Avoid the summer reading slide and take a look at what these free summer reading programs have to offer.
All Together Now Summer Reading Program by Josie Bailey t-shirt #1. Help support my summer reading program for kids at public libraries! Be sure to look at my other Story Time goodies! Thank you!!
Adult Summer Reading Book Bingo Card from Sharon Public LibraryHave you heard about the Adult Summer Reading Book Bingo Card from Sharon Public Library?I t
Summer Reading Log Bookmark Printable Tracker. Customize these reading log for kids, teens, toddlers, or adults. List books or simply color.
Stuck doing remote or distance learning? Do you homeschool? Encourage kids to learn and practice reading at home or in the classroom with these online reading programs and apps. Try any of these engaging digital reading programs or apps to help kids with phonics, reading comprehension, and fluency.
You're invited to participate in the sixth annual LMSS Summer Reading Program! Find more details here. Receive this library tote for free when you complete the reading challenge.* Color it in with markers for extra fun! *One free tote per family. You pay shipping.
15 summer reading log printables to use to record books read by your child. Free PDF printable reading log. Reading log to use with your kids
So, you're planning programming for the adults in your library and you're looking to change it up? From time to time, this question is p...
One of our easiest and most useful initiatives is our Celebrate A Grade initiative. We’ve run it for the past three school years and it has lots of applications. Every month celebrates a specific grade. We begin in October with kindergarten. When kids in each grade come up to the desk and tell us their teacher... Read more »
Don't leave your faculty & staff out of summer reading! Build a strong reading culture in your school by including adults in your summer reading program. Offer the faculty a bingo card, just like the students, and offer them prizes too! Adults love prizes! Students love knowing their teachers re...
Looking for a few free printable adult coloring pages to take on your summer trip? Well, these are for you! It’s time to print them out, sit down and color for a bit…just relax and make something pret
Jess has written about using Scratch Tickets for Teen Summer Reading in the past (and her idea actually got picked up by School Library Journal!), but I (Kat) am here to write a little bit about how I've used this in my own libraries, with a few variations on Jess's brilliant theme. If you read the article we linked above, you will see how Jess set things up. In a library of that size (over 35,000 people in her town!) it was phenomenal. In my town, it was a little bit too much. I scaled back a lot, and it worked well for me. The Basics If you're new to the idea of Summer Reading Scratch Tickets, here's the basic idea: Instead of trying to get teens to sign up for things, you hand out homemade scratch tickets (I usually call them "scratchies") to anyone in grades 6-12. Teens will scratch off their ticket and either instantly win a prize, or write their name on a non-winning ticket and be entered to win a big raffle prize at the end of the summer. Participants must write their name on the ticket to claim their prize or enter the raffle, so you have a count of how many people participated right there, without having to get the teens to sign up for something (which, in my experience, they don't want to). How I Changed It Jess had categories of tickets; one prize could only be won by checking out a nonfiction book; another was for graphic novels. I had one ticket. Check out *something* and you get a scratchie - one per person, per day. Want to try again to win that prize you have your eye on? Come back tomorrow and you can get another ticket! I am also planning for this summer to give out a ticket to any teens that come to programs. There's a whole tutorial in our other article about how to paint the stickers so you can scratch them off. I was lazy busy and bought a roll of 1,000 scratchable stickers from Amazon. 3/4 of the tickets I made were instant winners. These were split fairly evenly between candy, gift cards to local places (free ice cream cones and mini golf games), and a choice of selection from the prize box (summer reading incentives, like water bottles, tote bags, phone chargers, and the like). I also made specific tickets for random medium-sized prizes (such as a 5 pound gummy bear, and some of the nicer donated gift cards). You had to scratch the ticket that said "Winner! Giant Gummy Bear!" to win that specific prize. It kept some of the kids coming back time and again because they really wanted something. 1/4 of the tickets said, "Sorry, not a winner!" and were used to pull the end-of-summer Grand Prize winners. Making the Tickets Jess made a template that has served us well (right-click to save!); if you print it in grayscale on colored cardstock, it looks amazing, and the circles are where you type in what the prize is (or, "Sorry! Not a winner!"). The circles can be covered up by the 1" round scratch stickers that I linked above. Originally, the square on the right was for the category - ficiton, nonfiction, graphic novel, etc. I used it to put the name and address of my library. The blank space in the middle is where you write NAME: PHONE: EMAIL: and/or whatever disclaimer information you want to make sure is on each ticket. Last summer, mine looked like this: Gorgeous! Prize Ideas As for prizes: can I just say, Cape Cod is amazing? Since it's a vacation wonderland, there are touristy-type things *everywhere.* I sent out a letter requesting donations to various local businesses, and got a flotilla of coupons for free mini golf games, free ice cream cones, free bowling games, free arcade tokens, and gift cards for restaurants and other local attractions. The local candy store gave us a huge reusable bag full of boxes of candy (and nicely told us to "come on back when you want more!") We went through a lot of prizes, but we got a lot of really wonderful feedback. The grand prizes I made were gift bags including a lot of the summer reading incentives, some candy, and $25 gift cards to Amazon.com. They were very popular. I'm in a different library this year, without the vast abundance of places to get free stuff. I am still planning on candy and incentives, and am sniffing around for places to get coupons for ice cream cones and such. I'm planning to ask my new T.A.B. (once they start meeting in a couple weeks) to help me pick the grand prizes - but probably gift cards again, because everyone loves a gift card. How It Went Teen Summer Reading 2015: 4 teens. Teen Summer Reading 2016: 86 teens. My friends, this is an increase of almost 2,000%. (I felt like a library rockstar.) The adults wanted scratch tickets. The kids wanted scratch tickets. Teens I've never seen before came out of the woodwork and got scratch tickets. SCRATCHIES FOR THE WIN! I know this idea has really taken off in the last few years, and we would love to hear your variations. Did you like it? Did it work for you? What did you do differently? Tell us in the comments here, on our Facebook page, or via Twitter.
Ultimate summer reading programs for kids guide and updated 2024 summer challenge for reading rewards and free book programs! A summer kids reading challenge are great additions for kids summer fun and great programs to encourage and help kids read for free prizes. Check out these children's summer book list ideas for freebies, incentives and fun reading activities at home, including best online reading program for struggling readers!
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At PLA 2016, I attended the “How Two Libraries Quit Summer Reading and You Can, Too” program with the real hope (deep in my heart) that I would never, ever, ever do a summer reading program (SRP) again. You already know where this is going. That program title was a trick to get me in the door, but the presentation was full of good stuff that re-invigorated my team to finally make the changes to our SRP that we had been imagining for years. That PLA session was the inspiration that made us examine everything we were doing and start over. Let’s begin with a tour of the past. Our SRP wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t a team effort, but rather a task on someone’s to-do list. Since SRP isn’t an easy program for one person to put together, we knew this was a practice that needed to change. Also,...
So this is a summer program we’ve been hosting for 5 years now. I’ve always saved this one for the week of 4th of July–the idea being I don’t put too much work into this on…
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I LOVE the Olympics! I have always loved the Olympics, and I get very excited when it's an Olympic year. The summer Games are my favorite, especially the gymnastics and swimming. The Olympics is also a high-interest topic for students. The summer Games are a perfect theme for the end or beginning of a school year, and it's a great theme for summer school, as well. When I have a theme that I'd like to teach but is not in my curriculum, I always start with guided reading. I am very lucky to have a Reading A-Z subscription through my school district. On the Reading A-Z site, there are several different books that are leveled and perfect for an Olympic theme. My favorite is titled Summer Olympic Events and is available in levels H, K, & Q. In my Gold Medal Literacy resource, I have two mini books that I also use: The Summer Olympics and Where in the World is Rio de Janeiro? They're perfect, because students can highlight and write directly in their books. The nice thing about those little books and the A-Z readers is that they come with comprehension activities and worksheets. My Gold Medal Literacy packet is loaded with word word and writing activities that can help you run a mini-unit on the summer Olympics. I used it during the last week of school, and my kids had a blast! They're definitely excited for the Games in August. You can find my Gold Medal Literacy resource here. Over the years, I've collected Olympics trade books as I've found them. They are kind of few and far between, at least the good ones are. I've linked up a few of my favorites and a few on my wish list. (These are Amazon affiliate links.) What Are the Summer Olympics? I LOVE this series! Magic Treehouse: The Hour of the Olympics- Excellent for guided reading or as a read aloud. Ancient Greece and the Olympics: Nonfiction Companion G is for Gold Medal- I love the variety of information in this book. It's not a great read aloud, but it is perfect to add to a themed bookshelf. Elympics- This one looks really cute, although I do not own it. How to Train with a T.Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals- I think this one looks so cute! Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman- There are tons of great biographies about Olympians, and this one is one of my favorites. Excellent book! Olympia the Games Fairy- My girls love these fairy books, so this is a good one to add to the bookshelf. It is always chosen. ...and if you're looking for some more fun ideas for teaching about the Olympics. Click on the photos to access the link. (image and link to The Chaos and the Clutter) (image and link to Classy Mommy) (image and link to Fun-a-Day) My summer Games math resource on TPT. Math and Literacy together!
Printable Book Bingo Card for Adults. Challenge yourself to read more this year by playding adult book bingo!
Build your students' reading comprehension with this printable short story with comprehension questions. It's the perfect classroom activity for students.
I’ve been thinking a lot about reading challenges this year and what I wanted to do for one. I’ve never actually completed one. Often because the requirements are so specific, that if I…
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All Together Now Summer Reading Program by Josie Bailey t-shirt #2. Help support my summer reading program for kids at public libraries! Be sure to look at my other Story Time goodies! Thank you!!
