Listed below are suggested reading activities your child may choose to participate in this summer. These activities include the Governor's Reading Challenge, Kent Memorial Library's Reading program, and Suffield Summer Reading Challenge. Suffield's reading challenge asks all students to follow a path (or multiple paths) on the map of Connecticut. In addition, students in Grades 2 through 5 might be interested in reading texts from the 2018 Nutmeg Award Winners!
This summer for reading your child can:
Tips for how to choose a good book
This summer for reading your child can:
- Log the books they read at home on the CT Summer Reading Journal. This log was sent home with your child after the Book Swap event! If you need another copy, you can access the log with this link: Summer Reading Journal
- Follow the map to school on our Suffield Summer Reading Challenge.
- At the start of the 2018-2019 school year, your child can return their Summer Reading Journal and/or their Suffield Summer Reading Challenge to their new teacher.
- Your child may be asked to participate in a classroom book discussion to share summer reading with new classmates.
- This experience will provide your child with the opportunity to get to know new classmates and start the year off with meaningful literacy conversations.
- All K-5 students that return their Summer Reading Journal or the Suffield Summer Reading Challenge will be entered into a raffle for a variety of fun items!
Tips for how to choose a good book
- What makes a good book is your child’s reaction to it!
- Look at the cover and read the summary on the back of the book. Does it sound interesting?
- Ask your friends, brothers or sisters if they have read this book or other books by this author. Did they enjoy reading this book or books by this author?
- Look through the book. Do the illustrations, photographs, and print make you think that you would enjoy reading this book?
- Open the book to any page. Read it carefully. Can you easily understand and discuss what’s going on?
Click the photo above to go to the K-5 Suffield Summer Reading Challenge
Students are encouraged to also participate in Kent Memorial Library’s Summer Reading Challenge.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
Read by yourself or together, from June 16 – August 4, and earn two free raffle tickets each week: one for a weekly prize and one for a Grand Prize to be awarded at the end of the seven-week program. And the wheel is back! Each week you participate, you get to spin the wheel for more fun giveaways
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
Read by yourself or together, from June 16 – August 4, and earn two free raffle tickets each week: one for a weekly prize and one for a Grand Prize to be awarded at the end of the seven-week program. And the wheel is back! Each week you participate, you get to spin the wheel for more fun giveaways
