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Summer Reading Program Keeps Children on Task

Area Teachers Run Summer Session from Home.

Teachers and students relish summer as a time to kick back, change gears, and do anything but school work.

Students think that anyway. Teachers will frequently use the summer to update their skills, take classes or do planning for their classroom.

Two teachers, Colleen Arnold of and Brenna Luebbing of Romeoville updated their skills but also kept a number of students from backsliding in reading skills. The two combined forces to conduct a summer reading session for 12 students in Arnold’s Minooka home. The two teachers just didn’t tutor out of the goodness of their hearts, both teachers used the summer tutoring session as a final project for their master’s degree in reading education. 

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“Research suggests that reading is a must in summer to keep from students from regressing, and having to relearn the skills when they return to school,” said Arnold. “We encouraged students to read, worked on skills, and measured their success. Most of the student maintained or showed growth in their reading.”  

Meeting four times over the summer, the group was comprised of youngsters from first to eight grade from Arnold’s neighborhood.

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Colleen agreed it was less formal than school might have been, but making it fun was part of the summer reading sessions, too.  She said parent responses were positive, too.

“Anything to get them reading,”   Colleen said. 

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