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How to Encourage Summer Reading

by Diana Benner
written by Diana Benner

Encouraging students to read over the summer is a great way to maintain and improve their reading skills. It can also help foster a lifelong love of reading. Summer is the perfect time for students to choose books they enjoy reading without worrying about assignments and grades. Let’s look at some ways to get students to read over the summer.

Communicate with Families

Communicate with families about how they can encourage their children to read over the summer. Give them resources such as summer reading lists, like this one from Common Sense Media, that will help their children be successful. Make sure families are aware of different ways they can access books throughout the summer.

In addition, give them tips on how to include the entire family in reading initiatives. For example, setting aside time for the family to sit down and read together or choosing audiobooks to listen to in the car.

Create a Summer Reading List Together

Work with your students to create a reading list that includes a variety of genres and reading levels. Allow students to choose books that interest them and fit their reading level. You can also create book clubs or reading groups to encourage discussions and share thoughts about the books.

Provide Reading Incentives

Provide incentives for students who read over the summer. This could be a certificate or reward for reading a certain number of books. You could also enter their name into a raffle for a prize. Make it fun and engaging so that students are motivated to read.

Connect Reading to Summer Activities

Encourage students to read books related to summer activities that might do. For example, if a student is going to the beach, suggest books about the ocean or marine life. If a student is interested in sports, suggest books about athletes or sports history.

Provide Online Read Aloud Resources

Everyone loves read alouds. They help build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Check out these free QR Code Read Aloud Cards in both English and Spanish. In addition, have students explore online reading sites like Epic, Storyline Online, and One More Story.

Host a Summer Reading Challenge

Set a reading goal for your students and create a chart to track their progress. You can make it a class-wide challenge or compete in small groups. You could also allow your students to track their reading progress by completing a reading bingo card or filling out a digital form. Make it fun and exciting by adding prizes or rewards for reaching milestones.

Partner with Local Libraries

Encourage students to visit their local public library. Send home information about the library’s summer hours and location. Include directions on how to obtain a library card and, if public transportation is available to the library, include this information as well. In addition, many libraries have summer reading programs that your students can participate in. Send home information about any reading programs or events happening at the library.

By using these strategies, you can help encourage students to read over the summer and maintain their literacy skills while having fun.

Are you looking for ways to encourage summer reading? Explore seven tips for inspiring the summer reader in every student.
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Seven New Children’s Books for 2021

by Andrew Roush
written by Andrew Roush

Children’s literature is one of the most prolific parts of the publishing industry. Besides tried-and-true classics, hundreds of new children’s books hit the shelves each year. That gives teachers and librarians the chance to find and share new stories and new perspectives — and potentially reach more students with compelling tales that build a love of reading.

If you’re looking to update your classroom or campus library, consider some of these recently published books from children’s authors, covering important social-emotional learning skills, lessons to take from the challenges of the ongoing pandemic, and more to help students make sense of a complex world while building a love of reading.

The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean

For ages nine and up, this nonfiction graphic novel uses bright, flowing illustrations to explore ocean-centric STEAM topics like tides and marine life. If you like this one, you’ll be happy to know it’s the third in a series by author Kim Dwinell.

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Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small

Physicist Jess Wade and illustrator Melissa Castrillón team up to engage readers with the science behind the very tiniest parts of our universe, like atoms, all while introducing students to the many scientific fields they might consider for a career.

Benjamin Zephaniah’s Nature Trail

The poet and titular author takes readers on a journey through the wonders of nature, imaging the tiny lifeforms you’d see on a walk doing various human activities. It all adds up to a lyrical book designed to get young people to take a closer look when they’re outside.

Rez Dogs

Told in verse, this book from Abenaki writer and scholar Joseph Bruchac tells the story of an eighth-grader who is visiting relatives on the Wabanaki reservation when the COVID-19 lockdown begins. The story reveals a “powerful message of family, friendship, community, and the bonds that connect us in the hardest of times” for ages nine and up.

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The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife

This book, from Maz Evans and illustrator Chris Jevons, explores big feelings and how they can sometimes get us into trouble. For age eight and up, this funny, over-the-top tale helps students consider what can happen when we keep feelings bottled up.

When the Sky Falls

Phil Earle’s novel explores life in World War II during the London blitz through the eyes of Joseph, a 12 year old who’s dyslexia is poorly understood by the people around him. As the world grows more dangerous, he bonds with a zoo’s last gorilla, Adonis. When Adonis’ cage is taken apart by bombs, Philip has some very serious decisions to make. For ages eight and up.

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When You Trap a Tiger

Tae Keller’s 2021 Newberry-winning book brings Korean folk tales to life as Lily meets the tiger from her grandmother’s stories — and the tiger offers a bargain that challenges Lily. This novel is about the impact storytelling can have and it’s for ages eight and up.

Photo by Lina Kivaka from Pexels

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Finding the Perfect Book to Read Next

by Dr. Bruce Ellis
written by Dr. Bruce Ellis

I love it when I have a great book to read, especially when the author has additional books in the series that I haven’t had a chance to enjoy yet. But what do you do when you exhaust a series? How do you find the next thrilling reading adventure that can be your go-to for when you need some enjoyable alone time or to help add balance to home-work-family tension? Here are a few sites to explore so that you can get that next great read in before school starts.

Whichbook

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Whichbook (https://www.whichbook.net) allows you to “dial in” to recommendations in a variety of ways. Unlike many other sites, Whichbook does not allow you to select the genre, title, or author in which you are interested. You can, however, search for the country in which the book is set. Or, you can search by mood and emotion, which is probably the most common way users find recommendations on this site. You can also search by character and plot. To the right, you will see a portion of the categories. You can choose up to four sliders to adjust according to how much of either of the two items you want. With each adjustment, your recommendations will update. Just click on a book in the recommendation results to view a brief summary of the book, an excerpt to get a feel for the writer’s voice, and then a few parallels: other books and sometimes tv shows, songs, and even paintings which have some similarities to the one you are viewing. Whichbook makes it easy to borrow the book from a variety of services, although it is especially designed for UK citizens. You can also purchase the book; but be aware that you’ll need to direct it to the seller’s (Amazon, Audible, etc.) site for your country.

Tailored Book Recommendations

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If you are the person that hates shopping for clothes and doesn’t mind paying a stylist such as Stitch Fix, Trunk Club, or Dia & Company to do it for you, then you might prefer a similar type option for books. Tailored Book Recommendations (TBR) will ask you about your reading habits and what you’re looking for; one of their bibliologists will then be assigned to you and will put together a personalized recommendation list. To make sure that you do not get recommendations for books you’ve already read, they do encourage you to update your Goodreads account and share the link with them.

BookBrowse Read-Alikes

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BookBrowse is a no-nonsense guide to books. One of the features I like is the Read-Alikes search feature. I just enter the book title or author I like and it will generate recommendations. Non-members can get two recommendations, while paid members get lengthy recommendations as well as additional community search features, support, pre-publication book lists, etc. I enjoyed reading Lilian Jackson Braun’s series (The Cat Who…) so I looked to see what free suggestions I could find via the Read Likes. The recommendation for Rita Mae Brown didn’t surprise me as I have read a book or two from her. I was please to receive a recommendation for M.C. Beaton, aka Marion Chesney, who wrote 34 books in the Hamish Macbeth series. Hmmm, I’ll have to check that out.

Gnod

Gnod, which stands for Global Network Of Discovery, is a bare-bones site and will give you one thing: an author recommendation. No frills. No fuss. Just enter up to three of your favorite authors and click the continue button. Gnod will predict an author you will like based on your favorites. You can choose to like it, don’t like it, or indicate that you don’t know. As you indicate each author, Gnod will provide an additional recommendation.

GoodReads

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If you are looking for recommendations from friends and like-minded readers, then you might find GoodReads a site that fits well. You can browse recommendations based on previous books you have read or peruse some of their curated recommendations of books by genre, Choice Awards recipients, or lists (such as books that everyone should read at least once, books that should be made into movies, best historical fiction, and more…). I highly encourage you to get engaged in the various community groups (Goodreads Librarians Group, Cozy Mysteries, Nothing but Reading Challenges, and more). You’ll also find fascinating discussions, quotes, trivia, and more to connect even more deeply with the characters and authors you love…or love to hate.

Readgeek

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Readgeek, which is similar to Goodreads, allows you to keep track of what you are reading as well as your list of books that you want to get to. You can easily rate books to help others decide, discover books to read based on similar readership, find friends to enjoy the journey with, and review your bookshelf to see what you’ve read or check out what is on you wish list.

Reddit

If you are a Reddit fan, then you may have already discovered the subReddit group r/booksuggestions. Here you can easily share the author, genre, or title(s) you like and get recommendations from some of the other 485,000 group members. Another group you might consider, although it isn’t limited to just books, is r/ifyoulikeblank. With slightly fewer fans, 368k, I have noticed more members online than the other group. So, to get the best return on your question, I would recommend that you cross-post your question to both groups as the demographics of the groups may be very different.

As a bonus, consider checking out r/FreeEBOOKS. You’ll find a healthy 1.3 million member group that shares all sorts of free ebooks that you might be interested in. To limit your search to a specific genre, click the appropriate flair such as Classic, Non-Fiction, Kids, History, etc. In case you are unfamiliar with the Reddit term “flair,” it is similar to a hashtag and can be added to the beginning of posts to indicate what the post is about. When you are posting your question, you might be able to indicate the flair you would like to add which will help like-minded individuals more easily find helpful posts.

Listening About Reading

And if you find that listening about reading is interesting, then consider tuning in to Anne Bogel’s podcast What Should I Read Next? You’ll find interesting information and guests you can relate to. As of this blog post, some of the podcasts that caught my eye include: Windows, Mirrors, and Why We Need Both; What the Cool Kids Are Reading; 1,000 books to Read Before You Die; and A Ridiculous Plan to Read More Books. You can find Anne’s podcast on Overcast, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher.

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So, What Will You Read?

My leisure reading list for the remainder of July and August is a short list of cozy mysteries. My list includes The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse by Leann Sweeney, Ruby Red Herring: An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery by Tracy Gardner, and possibly And Then There Were Crumbs: A Cookie House Mystery by Eve Calder. What will you be reading? Tell us about your most recent read and/or your favorite author.

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Digital Stories for Remote Learners

by Miguel Guhlin
written by Miguel Guhlin

You’ve heard of audio books, but what about video books? The phrase doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. But in spite of that, many educators are looking for video versions of popular stories they can share to encourage students to engage with stories in a new way. In this blog entry, we’ll explore several sources of multimedia, digital tales for remote learners.

The Power of Digital Stories

Have you read Gene Zion’s story of Harry, the Dirty Dog? If not, Betty White’s reading of an old favorite of mine will get your tail wagging. That’s the power of digital stories, to bring to a child the power of another human’s voice and interest in a story. Take a moment to listen to Betty White read the story.

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Listen online: https://www.storylineonline.net/books/harry-the-dirty-dog/

Let’s take a look at some sources of online stories you can share with your students.

Story Source #1: Storyline Online

This is a phenomenal resource of fifty-seven digital stories and all are completely free. The narrators are top notch, and each story comes with a teacher’s guide. For example, the guide for Harry, the Dirty Dog focuses on Grades K-2. Predictions, which is one of Reciprocal Teaching‘s Fab Four, are encouraged.

Storyline Online (@StorylineOnline) features apps for Android, iOS, and the Chrome browser. The stories and apps are free and will remain so.

Did You Know?

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Story Source #2: Audible Stories

We know listening to stories has the same benefit as reading with one’s eyes. Audible Stories is now offering, at no charge, a large collection of stories which are organized into a variety of categories, such as the following:

  • Littlest Learners
  • Elementary
  • Tween
  • Teen
  • Literary Classics
  • Folk and Fairy Tales for All

Digital Tales for remote learners

Their stories are also available in various languages including French, German, Spanish, Italian, and more. During COVID-19 crisis, Audible offers these at no cost.

Story Source #3: Storynory

Storynory has a variety of stories and tales in video format as well as in audio and text. They are also accessible via the  iOS or Android app that you can get on your device. Students can read the story on the screen while listening to the audio recording, enhancing their reading and listening skills.

Digital Tales for remote learnersStorynory describes itself in this way:

Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. Some months we serve around a million downloads of our mp3 files (stored on Libsyn). All our content is free.

Another source of audio books is Loyal Books. They offer classic titles in audio format. You can often find the text version online since most are in the public domain.

Story Source #4: David Walliams

Author David Walliams is sharing stories through March and April, 2020, releasing an audio story every day.

Digital Tales for remote learners

“All those stuck at home with their kids may be able to relate to ‘_The World’s Worst Children_’!” as David Walliams revealed that he’d be sharing his stories with the nation.  (Source: Good Housekeeping)

You can get started with Grubby Gertrude. Try not to laugh too much at this delightful tale.

Story Source #5: EPIC!

Looking for a free source of books and audio books? Check out Epic! which offers free teacher accounts through June 30, 2020. It’s easy to get set up as a teacher and then add your students. Creating the students’ accounts is as easy as copying and pasting their names into a text box.

You can find quite a bit of content online, and your students will have easy access.  Here’s some of the content, featuring audio and video books:

Story Source #6: Vook

Teachers get a year free of access to Vook. This offer is also open to home school educators. From their website:

“Vooks brings children’s books to life with animated illustrations, read-a-long text and narrated story. The ad-free platform features a variety of titles that have been engaging students all across the world. Whether being used as part of the lesson or to wind class down, Vooks is a fun and versatile tool for the classroom.

Learn more about Vook content:

Looking for more stories? Be sure to check out authors online. Like David Walliams, many such as Kate Messner will read their books online.

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Finding Free Audiobooks for Educators

by Andrew Roush
written by Andrew Roush

Earlier this spring, a report commissioned by the Audio Publishers Association found that, for the first time, half of all Americans have listened to audiobooks. Like many technologies, audiobooks, and their cousin, the podcast, are making their way into the classroom.

Recent research on the use of audiobooks on education is limited. A 2016 study found that those who received a lesson through audio did not lag behind those who heard and read the audio. Some researchers also point to the notion that the human brain is designed to interpret aural information first and foremost. A 2012 study published in the journal School Library Research noted a positive impact through the use of audiobooks for struggling readers. As the study summarized:

The findings indicated that struggling readers’ use of audiobooks had a positive impact on reading skills and attitudes toward reading. These findings are significant given the dearth of research directly related to the impact of audiobooks, despite the prevalent usage of audiobooks.

Audiobooks carry the possibility of helping struggling readers, though they possess other potential limitations. It’s difficult to grasp where you “are” in a text you’re listening to. You lack the ability to highlight, re-read, or otherwise “go back” over a passage, at least not without scrubbing through the audio. Still, having multiple ways for students to interact with language learning is important to many educators, and audiobooks are one such tool. The technology is even catching on as a teaching tool at the higher ed level.

Ready to try using audiobooks yourself? Here are four great sources for free audiobooks for educators.

Free Audiobook Resources

LibriVox includes free, public domain works read by volunteers. Its collection also contains a number of plays, poetry, and a vast array of nonfiction, in addition to its numerous fiction titles.
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OverDrive allows readers to digitally “check out” ebooks and audiobooks through their local public or school libraries. OverDrive’s Sora app is specifically designed to allow schools to set up accounts that students can use to download ebooks and audiobooks.
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Loyal Books, formerly known as Books Should Be Free, offers many classics in ebook and audiobook format.
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Storynory is all about children’s audiobooks, from fables to educational titles and beyond.
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Leaders are Readers: Resources for All of Us

by Guest Blogger
written by Guest Blogger

Teachers are in the information business. Librarians are information seekers. We like to read and listen. Such materials include, but are not limited to, books, audiobooks, ebooks, and podcasts. Furthermore, as the amendment to SB3 acknowledges, librarians are, above all else, teachers.  As teacher-librarians, we have several resources we’d like to share that are perfect for all educational leaders. If you’re on the hunt for a new professional read or listen, consider these suggestions. After all, leaders are readers!

Social LEADia by Jennifer Casa-Todd (2017, ISBN 9781946444110, Dave Burgess Consulting)

Jennifer Casa-Todd presented two sessions at TCEA 2019 – From Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership and the LIB-SIG meeting keynote. Her book offers the following:

“Social LEADia addresses the need to shift our conversations at school and at home from digital citizenship to digital leadership. You’ll read about some amazing kids who are leveraging social media in positive and powerful ways. They are passionate and empathetic leaders online and offline, and they model the reality that students don’t need to wait for tomorrow to lead–they can be world-changers today.”

Cult of Pedagogy by Jennifer Gonzalez (blog/podcast/website)

Cult of Pedagogy is run by a team of people committed to making you more awesome in the classroom. The following descriptions come from editor in chief Jennifer Gonzalez.

THE BLOG: I’ve been writing blog posts here since 2013, so a lot of content has built up over the years. Each one falls into one of these three categories: The Craft, where we fine-tune the art of teaching, Go Deep, where we dig into the theory and thinking behind our practice, and Teacher Soul. This last category is my favorite, because it’s where we get into the guts, the raw emotions of teaching. Our work isn’t just a set of black-and-white strategies, we work with actual live human beings. That makes it ridiculously complicated and sometimes painful. In Teacher Soul, we talk about that. To find what you’re most interested in, head over to the blog page and either browse each of these sections, use the topic index to drill down deeper, or just do a search.

PODCAST: Although I definitely lean towards introversion, it turns out I’m pretty happy talking to a microphone at my desk. About half of the episodes are my interviews with teachers, learning experts, parents, and other people who make things happen in education. The other half are solo podcasts, where I hog the mic the whole time and share my own thoughts and discoveries. Also? I think my intro music is the grooviest, so listen if only for that.

VIDEOS: My library of videos is packed with good things for you. In some, I demonstrate some really cool teaching practices, share classroom management tips, demonstrate tech tools so they look super easy, and offer up advice for some of your trickiest teaching situations.

Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins (2018, ISBN 9781564847041, ISTE)

When you hear the term “fake news” I’m sure many images come to mind. Yet do we really know how to define fake news, identify it, and combat it?  Do we even view it as a problem? In a changing media landscape, we all engage with news differently than in the past, from the devices we use to the apps we select to the notifications we receive.

LaGarde and Hudgins break down the term “fake news” and more accurately identify it as propaganda, satire, bias challenge, conspiracy theories, clickbait, and disinformation. Additionally, information consumers also encounter altered images and video. The smaller the screen becomes, the more challenging it is to recognize all the potential inaccuracies or misleading content.

The book includes a fake news self-assessment plus a variety of resources, broken down by age range, with tools for evaluating credibility, sample lessons, fact-checking tools, and more to help combat fake news. LaGarde and Hudgins chronicle numerous instances of fake news and the impact it has on news consumers. They conclude with insights from educators who have developed media literacy lessons and responses to the bombardment of news that students face.

Engineered! Engineering Design at Work by Shannon Hunt, illustrated by James Gulliver Hancock  (2017, ISBN 9781771385602, Kids Can Press)

This book can serve as a mentor text for STEM teachers, robotics coaches, and anyone interested in design thinking. It also provides procedural texts. Nine feats of engineering that span nine fields such as aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and geomatics engineering demonstrate how design steps allowed engineers to define problems and required them to  investigate, develop, create, test, optimize, and share solutions. While the illustrations might try to trick you into thinking this is an elementary picture book, the content is anything but. Engineered! can find a home on any school campus and might even be better utilized at the secondary level.

This is a guest blog post by Brandi Rosales and Kristi Starr. Brandi is the library system administrator in Richardson ISD and the Secretary/Treasure of LIB-SIG. Kristi is the library media specialist and co-campus technology leader at Coronado High School in Lubbock ISD and the President of LIB-SIG. This blog is part of a monthly series of blogs from LIB-SIG. 

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Help Students Enjoy Summer Reading

by Dr. Bruce Ellis
written by Dr. Bruce Ellis

I enjoyed reading Susan Barber’s post on Building Choice Into Your Students’ Reading. In it, she shared several great ideas for teachers to use during the school year to promote a culture of literacy. As a followup to her article, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss resources that you can use and share with your students to promote a culture of literacy over the summer months. Yes, even now as schools are wrapping up the year, many educators are already starting to plan how they can motivate students to interact with meaningful text and, hopefully, build a deeper sense of enjoyment in reading. Below are some resources I picked especially for you for summer reading fun.

Free Books Online

books online imageMost free books are in the public domain, but that doesn’t mean that they are not relevant for our students. But that’s not the only place to find free books. Some parents and students may benefit from signing up for a free month with a particular service even if they don’t plan to extend their usage beyond the complimentary time.

  • Children’s Storybooks Online – This site offers web-based books for young children, older children, and young adult readers. A few have audio provided as well.
  • SYNC – Sync is a free summer audio book program for teens 13 and up. It begins on April 27, 2017, and goes through the summer. Each week, two complete audio book downloads are made available.
  • Open eBooks – Students from low-income families can benefit from these free ebooks, but the school needs to sign up first. Then educators from that school can request access codes to share with students. Each student can check out up to 10 ebooks at a time. The Open eBooks app works on iOS and Android devices.
  • Library of Congress Archive – With more than 150,000 books online, you will definitely want to use the search features to narrow down by topic, collection, creator (author), and/or language.
  • Reading Resource Project – This program that runs throughout the year provides free books (only shipping is required). Many of the sets include 100 books that can be shipped to you for $88.
  • Free Kids Books – Choose to read the books either online or download as a PDF to read offline.
  • Kindle’s Top 100 Free Books – Download and read via the Kindle app or online. Lots of selection choices.
  • Barnes & Noble’s Popular Free eBooks – Access Barnes & Noble’s list of ebooks that you can download and read on the NOOK app. Be sure to use the sidebar options to narrow search results by subject and age of reader.
  • TCEA members are also encouraged to join the iPad in the Classroom Community group where daily announcements are made about free books by Amazon as well as great apps that are available free for a limited time.

Text-to-Speech Readers

text to speech imageMany text-to-speech readers are available that can assist with ebooks. Your device and platform may determine which works best for you.

  • Acrobat Reader – Activate Acrobat’s reader to have your PDF ebook read to you. Voices are limited, but you can adjust the pitch and speed.
  • NaturalReader – You can download NaturalReader to listen to PDF, DOCX, Richtext, and ePub formatted ebooks.
  • Aloud! – This free text-to-speech app works on iOS and accepts plain text, PDF, DOCX, ePub, RTF, and HTML formats.
  • @Voice Aloud Reader – Designed for Android users, you’ll enjoy the extensive list of formats this free app can read aloud (TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice document files, EPUB, MOBI, PRC, AZW and FB2 ebooks, and more).

Summer Reading Lists

summer reading list iconHot off the press, these updated lists can give you and your students some direction of what author to check out, the next series to explore, and possibly a new genre to try out.

  • Summer Reading for ELL and ESL Students – Lots of lists curated and shared by Colorin Colorado for ELL and ESL students. Great resources for teachers and parents.
  • Reading List for New Students at UC Berkeley – Before saying goodbye to your high school seniors, you may want to share with them this list of books for incoming students to Berkeley.
  • Houston ISD Summer Reading List – Enjoy the curated lists provided by the Houston Area Independent School Library Network. Each list is a PDF, making it easy to download, share, and/or print as needed.
  • B&N Summer Reading – Take advantage of Barnes & Noble’s list for summer reading. Keep a journal (provided on website for download) of at least eight titles you read and you can get a free book!
  • NYPL Summer Reading List – The New York Public Library has nicely formatted lists for babies-PreK, grades K-5, teens, and adults.
  • The Ultimate Summer Reading List for 9- to 12-Year-Olds – Melissa Taylor has pulled together a great list of books that will be popular with all upper elementary and middle school kids.

After Reading Activities

after reading activities imageMaking a book more enjoyable can easily be done by including some after-reading activities. Here are  few to get you started. These are great to share with parents as well!

Please share with us your school’s reading list for the summer, your favorite book you read as a kid, or possibly a one that you anticipate reading this summer for fun. We’d love to hear from you!

 

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