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Summer Enrichment
Summer Enrichment for Rising 1st-5th Graders
Many studies have concluded that students experience significant learning loss when they do not participate in educational activities during the summer months. Our teachers have selected the Summer Express workbooks to bridge the learning gap over the summer. The books are designed to be completed throughout the summer, not to be rushed through the week before school begins. We feel these books will provide a more comprehensive review of the previous year's material and will allow students to maintain their current academic level throughout the summer. Having the students work over the summer, allows the teachers to spend less time at the beginning of the year on review and allows them to jusmp into new material more quickly.
In addition to the workbook, students will be required to keep a reading log which they will turn in when school begins. Some teachers will also require a specific book or project. See each individual grade requirements listed under the Resources to the left.
Summer Reading Statistics
- Students experience significant learning loss when they do not participate in educational activities during the summer months. Research shows that students on average score lower on standardized tests at the end of summer than they do on the same tests at the end of the school year. Students which do not read experience greater summer learning losses than their peers which do read during the summer months. (Cooper, 1996)
- The achievement gap in reading scores between students which read verses those which do not increases over summer vacation. The research shows that achievement for both students improves at a similar rate during the school year. (Alexander & Entwisle, 1996).
- Reading just 4-5 books during the summer can prevent a decline in a child's fall reading scores. (Kim, Summer Reading and the Ethnic Achievement Gap, 2004)
- Summer reading loss is cumulative, these children do not typically catch up in the fall. Their peers are progressing with their skills while they are making up for the summer learning loss. By the end of 6th grade, children who lose reading skills during the summer are on average 2 years behind their peers.
- Teachers spend an average of 4-6 weeks re-reaching material that students have lost during the summer.