Reading Challenge

Keep your children's reading skills honed, keep their minds fresh, and introduce them to some great literature this summer. Reading time can be Bible, devotions, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, magazines, newspaper, any reading that you, as parents, approve. Although it is good to challenge our children, summer reading should also be fun and interesting. Weekly trips to the library are a great time to introduce your children to the Dewey Decimal System and the computer catalog. Teach your children good library etiquette, have them use good manners with the librarian as they check out their books, and don't forget to pick up some good books for yourself while you are there.

Parents decide how long a child should be required to read each day, but here is a guideline:

Preschoolers: parents reads to child a minimum of 15 minutes a day
New Readers: parents take turns reading with child for 15 minutes a day
Independent Early Readers - 2nd grade and up: 15-30 minutes a day
3rd Grade and up: 30 minutes a day
5th grade through Middle School: 1 hour a day

Parents must hold children accountable for honestly recording their reading times. Establish a time each day when it is quiet time in your household. Set the kitchen timer for the minimum time and let the child know when their time is up. Encourage your child to continue reading if they desire to do so. If a child has missed their reading time for some reason that is out of their control, allow them to make it up the next day. Make this work for them.

Parents initial each week that child has read their minimum time for each day. At your discretion, you may give your child a small prize for each week that they have read each day. I don't recommend candy unless it is free of food colorings and artificial flavors (this includes vanillin).

Set up a Grand Prize for child who reads each day for 6 weeks. Since we have four children who will be taking up the Reading Challenge, I have set up 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place prizes. That way no one loses.

Reading and Book Logs to Print Out

There are several different themed logs for your child to use. You can also choose prizes that coordinate with your child's theme. Be creative!

Child checks off each day that they read the established minimum time or older children can write the time they spent reading for that day. Parents initial at the end of each week and child can be given a small prize at that time with the larger prize coming at the end of the six weeks.

When child finishes reading a book, they record the title and date completed in the Book Log.

Click on each link below to print out logs. Check with Print Preview to make sure you don't need to adjust the margins so that the entire documents prints.

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