![]() ![]() Watch the clock and have an “Everybody Reads” hour. Other suggestions from my family included: Her suggestion as to what would get her excited about reading was fast and simple: Free choice. ![]() But this summer, she read plowed through book after book without being asked. My daughter spent the last year slogging through a reading challenge at school. What could we do that would get us reading more? The goal, I told my kids and husband, was just to figure out a few things that would get us excited about reading. So I decided to host my own reading summit – at the kitchen table. The discussion participants were reading experts, and it occurred to me that many of us are surrounded by reading experts, too. Topics included the power of school libraries, how to give kids reading confidence, and ways for kids to share what they were reading with each other. There, they spent a day talking about strategies to get kids excited about reading independently. A bunch of my teacher and librarian friends recently returned from a Reading Summit hosted by Scholastic. ![]()
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