Let’s talk about the summer slide

• Significant

• Socio-economic

• Cumulative and long-lasting

• Urgent

Making progress throughout the school year, losing ground over the summer months…

What the research tells us…

• US Horizons National

illustration of the cumulative

effect of summer reading loss

Video clip

• NZ research

Stuart McNaughton et al

School achievement: Why

summer matters al

Link to TLRI site with PDF.

Our students, our school community

What do we know about:

• student reading levels at end of year?

• student reading levels at start of new year?

• home reading practices and access to books?

• family use of public library over summer?

• holiday reading promotion plans at our school?

Summer reading is all aboutreading for pleasure

• Students' own choice of books

• Aim for variety of reading material

• Reading a little and often each day works best

• Years 7 - 13:

– Read 6 novels over summer to maintain reading levels

– Read 10 novels over summer to increase reading levels

Summer reading - taking a strategic approach

Getting the students on board

Students a Oromahoe School, photo used with permission

• Information about summer reading loss

• Access to books, reading material

• Encouragement

• Challenges, goals - intrinsic rewards

• Reading role models

• Take home “kits” for summer reading

• What else?

What can teachers do with their class? Preparation, promotion and practice

In classes with lower summer reading loss, teachers:

• give students ideas about reading over summer

• help students choosesuitable books

• encourage use of the library over the summer

• prepare students around reading strategies,metacognition, engagement

• share information with parents.

How can the school library be involved?books, enthusiasm and expertise!

• Extend loan limits for generous

borrowing

• Do lots of promotion, eg booktalks,

reviews, displays, booklists

• Help students and parents choose

books

• Encourage participation in public

library programmes

• Manage library routines eg

stocktaking to ensure library open

at end of yearStudent reading, Ahipara School,

photo used with permission

Connecting with the public library

• What public library services are available for our

students / families? Who does the school liaise with?

• How many students use the public library? How can

we help students connect with public library

programmes?

• What ways can teachers model using the public

library?

How can we help parents?

Provide guidelines around:

• making time for reading – “little and often”

• helping their children choose “just right books”

• keeping reading enjoyable

• how to listen to children read

• being a reading role model

• where to get books from

• power of reading aloud

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ned_horton/3321615408/

What are we going to do at our school to encourage teachers to read

children’s / YA books over the summer?

Teacher at Ahipara School reading, photo used with permission

What summer reading initiatives can we put in place at our school?

1. In-school initiative Student learning need/objective identified eg Maintain student reading over summer

2. Planning Collaborative plan to trial initiative to maintain reading

3. DevelopmentResources put in placefor trial

4. Implementation Initiative trialled with small group of students. Student learning outcome/s discussed with Principal/staff

5. Sustainability Successful initiatives become “how we do things” in our school

Evidence in PracticeEvidence of Practice

Evidence for practice Eg McNaughton research,

in-school data…

Visit Services to SchoolsSummer reading pages

http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/creating-readers/summer-reading

Brainstorm / Discussion / Action Planningabout summer reading initiatives

for our school community