Summer Challenge
Keep Kids Reading All Summer Long!
When kids log their reading minutes, they earn points to win the team competition — and be part of the World Record Challenge! Have questions about the Summer Challenge? Check out the FAQs.
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When kids log their reading minutes, they earn points to win the team competition — and be part of the World Record Challenge! Have questions about the Summer Challenge? Check out the FAQs.
The Buzz Garden Game
Know a Little One Just Learning to Read?
Grow reading interest and skills this
summer with The Buzz Garden Game.
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Summer Book Lists
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Meet the Summer Reading Challenge!
Got a reluctant reader in your house? Keep him reading all summer long with our great book list suggestions and stop the summer slide! These titles will encourage your kids to love reading, while sharpening their language skills all summer long.
Articles
Get Ready to Read — Together!
Scholastic Parents | The best way to raise a reader is to be one yourself, and to incorporate books and reading into your family's life every day. Get started now!
Scholastic Parents | The best way to raise a reader is to be one yourself, and to incorporate books and reading into your family's life every day. Get started now!
Raising a Reader
by Abby Margolis Newman
LS - Scholastic Parents | Teachers build skills, but a parent's top job is to nurture a love of books and words.
by Abby Margolis Newman
LS - Scholastic Parents | Teachers build skills, but a parent's top job is to nurture a love of books and words.
Read Aloud With Your Child: Video Demos
Scholastic Parents | What's the best way to help your child succeed in school and life? Read to him, early and often! These videos offer tips for reading aloud with your toddler, preschooler, beginning reader, and pre-teen.
Scholastic Parents | What's the best way to help your child succeed in school and life? Read to him, early and often! These videos offer tips for reading aloud with your toddler, preschooler, beginning reader, and pre-teen.
Choosing the Best Books for Your Child
by Shama Narang
LS - Scholastic Parents | Build a library of titles he'll remember forever.
by Shama Narang
LS - Scholastic Parents | Build a library of titles he'll remember forever.
Stories to Share
Scholastic Parents | Bring your family together with these all-ages tales. Take turns reading chapters, teach younger generations about their cultural heritage through folktales, or let metaphorical tales and allegories inspire discussions of morals and values.
Scholastic Parents | Bring your family together with these all-ages tales. Take turns reading chapters, teach younger generations about their cultural heritage through folktales, or let metaphorical tales and allegories inspire discussions of morals and values.
The Book Connection
by Margery D. Rosen
Scholastic Parents | When you nurture a love of reading, you also foster a strong parent-child bond.
by Margery D. Rosen
Scholastic Parents | When you nurture a love of reading, you also foster a strong parent-child bond.
Timeless Chapter Books
Scholastic Parents | Do you remember the first book you started and couldn't put down? Introduce your child to these beloved classics and help him connect to generations of reading for pleasure.
Scholastic Parents | Do you remember the first book you started and couldn't put down? Introduce your child to these beloved classics and help him connect to generations of reading for pleasure.
Go Clubbing
by Martha Bayliss
Scholastic Parents | Start a parent-child book group and reap benefits beyond reading.
by Martha Bayliss
Scholastic Parents | Start a parent-child book group and reap benefits beyond reading.
Enticing a Restless Reader
by Susan B. Neuman PhD
LS - Parent & Child | Does your child wriggle and fidget while you read? Try changing books and routines.
by Susan B. Neuman PhD
LS - Parent & Child | Does your child wriggle and fidget while you read? Try changing books and routines.
Book Time Is Together Time
by Margery D. Rosen
Scholastic Parents | Give your beginning reader a boost with lots of shared reading.
by Margery D. Rosen
Scholastic Parents | Give your beginning reader a boost with lots of shared reading.
Day Trips for Book Lovers
by Mary Seehafer Sears
Scholastic Parents | June 1,2005
These ideas for family excursions bring your child's favorite books to life.
by Mary Seehafer Sears
Scholastic Parents | June 1,2005
These ideas for family excursions bring your child's favorite books to life.
The Benefits of Board Games
by Alvin Rosenfeld
Parent & Child | Playing games with your kids is a perfect way to spend time together and build reading skills at the same time.
by Alvin Rosenfeld
Parent & Child | Playing games with your kids is a perfect way to spend time together and build reading skills at the same time.
Design a Dream Bedroom for Your Book Lover
by Natalie Siregar
Scholastic Parents | September 19,2006
With eye-catching covers, beautiful illustrations, and fun themes, your child's books can open up a world of decorative possibilities.
by Natalie Siregar
Scholastic Parents | September 19,2006
With eye-catching covers, beautiful illustrations, and fun themes, your child's books can open up a world of decorative possibilities.
10 Gifts that Encourage Reading
by Cara Pitterman
Scholastic Parents | For birthdays, winter holidays, or just because, try these presents to promote a love of books.
by Cara Pitterman
Scholastic Parents | For birthdays, winter holidays, or just because, try these presents to promote a love of books.
Quick Click: Read With Panache
by Jessica Tom
Scholastic Parents | Sharing a book with your child? Ham it up!
by Jessica Tom
Scholastic Parents | Sharing a book with your child? Ham it up!
Quick Click: 9 Ways to Integrate Reading into Everyday Life
LS - Scholastic Parents | Build a fun, language-rich atmosphere at home with these great tips and activities you can do in minutes.
LS - Scholastic Parents | Build a fun, language-rich atmosphere at home with these great tips and activities you can do in minutes.
Quick Click: Be a Reading Role Model
by Jessica Tom
Scholastic Parents | Your child walks absorbs everything you do. So set the right example when it comes to reading.
by Jessica Tom
Scholastic Parents | Your child walks absorbs everything you do. So set the right example when it comes to reading.
Quick Click: 10 Non-book Ways to Get Your Child Reading
Scholastic Parents | Try these creative approaches that inspire.
Scholastic Parents | Try these creative approaches that inspire.
