TAG: summer slide
Celebrating families reading together this summer with author Grace Lin
Posted in kids, News, Parents and Teachers on May 28, 2019 at 6:00 am
By Gwendolyn Haley I’ve observed an interesting phenomenon around my house lately while reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin, aloud with my youngest daughter. The rest of the family, two teenaged daughters and one middle-aged husband have gravitated to the living room to listen. The story of Minli’s epic journey to […]
Tags: aloud, author, author visit, Beanstack, booklist, books, celebration, Grace Lin, grandparents, kids, online reading tracker, parents, preschool, reading, reading certificate, Summer reading, summer slide, teachers, together, tweens
Confession of a librarian mom: Reading and summer slide
Posted in Explore and Discover, kids, Parents and Teachers on June 5, 2018 at 6:00 am
By Gwendolyn Haley Last summer my family was busy with summer activities: camps, road trips, and camping vacations. We planned highly educational and enriching activities for our youngest daughter, but we did not make reading a high priority. When she started school in the fall, her teacher told me that she had definitely lost ground […]
Tags: online reading, online summer reading, reading, reading buddies, reading buddy, summer learning loss, Summer reading, summer reading buddies, summer reading buddy, summer slide
