The free public library is a great American institution. Parents should consider making a weekly trip to the library with their children. Read aloud for at least a half-hour everyday to your child. Research shows that parents who read aloud and regularly to a child play a decisive role in their child becoming an avid, rather than reluctant, reader. The Book Search Game.
Summer is a time of garage sales and used books are plentiful and often cheap.
Make it a game. Roberts said that she has never heard an adult complain that I grew up in house filled with books it was awful. Roberts suggested that if children are reluctant to participate in summer learning activities, parents might use their children s teachers as role models. The vast majority of South Dakota teachers will spend time in the classroom this summer improving their skills and knowledge, she said. Parents can use the fact that teachers don t take a three month vacation from learning as an example for their children.