TARGET: Summer Literacy Programs

[Kim Thames <Kim_Thames@GWINNETT.K12.GA.US>]

I am looking for effective summer literacy  programs as a pattern for our
efforts to encourage summer reading for our students.  Our elementary school is
over half English as a second langugage as well as free and reduced lunch.  We
have over 1,300 students, and we need a way to encourage our students to read
over the summer. Our teachers work so hard and give them great literacy skills,
but we know they do not read over the summer, putting them months behind their
peers when they get to middle school.  Many of them do not have transportation
to the public library.  I would like to put together some kind of program for
bringing books to the students.. or getting the students to the books!  I would
like to know of a similar program that works!

Thanks,
Kim Thames
Media Specialist
Meadowcreek ES
Norcross, GA
kthames@gwinnett.k12.ga.us

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