PBS KIDS is teaming up with iVillage to keep kids excited about reading all summer long! PBS KIDS and iVillage recently announced the iVillage PBS KIDS Summer Reading Community Challenge and we are joining the summer reading mission!
The iVillage PBS KIDS Summer Reading Community Challenge began June 6 and features free literacy-building resources for parents and children designed by the experts at PBS Parents and PBS KIDS. Challenge Coach, Angela Santomero, Creator, Executive Producer and Head Writer of SUPER WHY!, will provide daily reading activity assignments, answer parent questions and offer advice throughout the online event. Guest coaches such as cast members, characters, authors and series creators from PBS KIDS will also provide activities and ideas each week. PBS KIDS will also offer other summer literacy resources on-air and online, with themed weeks airing on PBS KIDS, as well as online tips and resources for parents to use with their children this summer. As a parent, I was beyond excited to learn about this because my sons LOVE to read books together, and now seeing my oldest son become a reader… I’m even more excited to find more resources to keep him going throughout the summer! Not to mention, my son Alex is (beyond) anxious to learn how to read, so that’s what we’ll be doing this summer with him, too!
I was excited when PBS Kids and iVillage offered to let me get my kids excited for summer reading with a Summer Reading Party! I thought to myself… the best place to have a Summer Reading Party would be in my son’s classroom, he has a class full of kids who love books and are all new readers and will be continuing their love of books throughout the summer at home! What better place to share some PBS Kids and iVillage summer reading goodies than William’s class!
The kids were able to work on a group project together, a Fill-in-the-Blank Story – where they each got to fill it in with their favorite color! There was an (AMAZING) Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat stovepipe hat and reading glasses that the kids got to play with!
Here’s my William…
To get all the kids excited about reading this summer, I was able to give the kids a Summer Kit with FUN items!
For more summer reading resources, check out PBSParents.org/read.
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