Summer Reading Recommendations for Kids

Every teacher tells you to keep the kids reading during the summer; every library has a program devoted to summer reading; you know it's important. But how?

How do you find the time, keep it fun, make it a habit, and challenge your children's reading skills? Please chime in with your suggestions and ideas!

Perhaps even more important: what hasn't worked for you? (That way we'll all know what not to do!)

To get things started, I'll throw my thoughts into the ring... such as they are:
  - Car time is reading time, or at least some car time. On trips of an hour or more, our rule is at least 30 minutes of reading/drawing for every 30 minutes of screen time.
  - Sadly, we don't make time to visit the library every week in the summer. But when we go, we stay ... we read in the comfy chairs, play with the puppets, and really enjoy the time there.
  - Reading logs don't work for us (me) either. I've got enough paperwork, thanks. In the summer I like to try some different titles, especially with a "cool" theme. (Try The Snowman for beginning readers.)

What has worked (or not) for you and your kids? Please share. When you're done with that book, of course.