Don't forget to sign up your kids and possibly yourself for your
local summer reading programs at your local library. I signed up
for an adult reading program (at my local library) and each week I
submit what books I finished. I did the same thing last year and won
a gift-card!
Half Price Books - Feed Your Brain Summer Reading Program
Read for at least 15 minutes each day in the months of June and July.
(Grown-ups may read aloud to kids who are still learning.)
Add up your minutes and have your parent or guardian initial each week.
Once you’ve read 300 minutes, turn in your completed log to
earn HPB Bookworm Bucks for each month.
We’ll award one top reader per age group each month
with a TOP READER prize - a $20 HPB Gift Card!*
iVillage Summer Reading Community Challenge
Keep your kids reading and learning all summer long with the iVillage Summer Reading Community Challenge
Join the free 4-week program and starting June 17 you’ll get daily emails filled with:
-- Literacy-building tips from the experts at Sprout
-- Games and activities to help foster a love of reading
-- Printables and crafts to share with your kids
-- A daily chance to win great prizes
Help your child discover the joys of reading. Sign up now!
Scholastic Summer Challenge
Here's how you can get involved:
Help your kids sign-up at www.scholastic.com/summer
Read, log minutes and possibly earn rewards!
Chuck E. Cheese
– Earn 10 FREE tokens every time your child reads for 2 weeks in a
row. Just fill out the form and bring it in to a participating Chuck E
Cheese claim your free tokens.
Barnes and Noble Kids Summer Reading Program
Here Is How:
Step 1. Read any 8 books and record them in the Reading Journal (PDF).
Step 2. Bring the completed Reading Journal to your local B&N store.
Find a Store.
Step 3. Choose a FREE BOOK from our selection on the Reading Journal list at the store... Enjoy reading!
*Eligible books will be listed on the coupon. Choices must be made
from available stock. No special orders. Limit of one (1) form per
school-age child (grades 1-6), please. Incomplete form will be
ineligible for free books.
Sylvan Book Adventure Club
Calling all kids between Kindergarten – 8th grade, sign up for the Sylvan Book Adventure Club! Whenever your kids read and finish a book found here, they can take an online quiz and earn points to redeem for prizes!
Quizzes aren't too hard and give around 200 points (if all questions are
answered correctly). Then let the kids save their points for a
prize from the Prize Library!
TD Bank Summer Reading Program for Kids
It’s easy! Here’s what participating kids need to do:
1. Read 10 books this summer. See suggestions.
2. Print out the Summer Reading Form
3. Write down the names of the books they've read
4. Take the form to the nearest TD Bank
5. Watch $10 be deposited into a new or existing Young Saver Account
More programs and Resources
Pottery Barn Kids: PBS KIDS is working with Pottery Barn Kids
this summer to highlight the importance of reading through the Pottery
Barn Kids Summer Reading Challenge. From May 24 through August 26, families can find activities and tips from PBS KIDS,
including a “PBK Favorites” booklist, certificate of completion and bookmark, in stores and online at
www.potterybarnkids.com/read.
Children that complete the list and bring it to a Pottery Barn Kids
location will receive a free book, or parents can enter their child into
an online drawing for a backpack full
of books. Additionally, PBS KIDS will be providing tips to help
families create a literate home at participating Pottery Barn Kids
retail locations and on the Summer Reading Challenge website. For more
information on the Summer Reading Challenge and related
activities, visit www.potterybarnkids.com/read.
Education.com: Beginning May 20, families can visit Summer
Reading Adventures hosted by Education.com to access a number of summer
reading resources, including a “Do-It-Yourself” Reading Camp. “DIY”
Reading Camp includes everything parents need to host
10 weeks of learning fun right from their own living rooms and
backyards. Each camp week includes a dozen projects and activities,
including specially selected PBS KIDS content, for parents and kids to
do together. PBS KIDS and Education.com will also encourage
families to read over the summer months with the “We’ll Read 10” pledge
– which offers families the chance to win one of five Kindle Prize
Packs. To take the pledge or learn more about DIY Summer Reading camp,
visit
www.education.com/read
Grandparents.com: Grandparents can help kids with reading, too.
PBS KIDS is proud to be working with Grandparents.com to offer resources
to provide grandparents with
ideas and literacy-building activities that they can do with their grandchildren over the summer break.
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