Posts Tagged ‘Summer Reading’
RIF has incredible resources to encourage reading and learning during the summer, including lists of our favorite books, games and downloadable activities perfect for the whole family, including a fun, shareable children’s book quiz! We’ve also partnered with some of the best names in children’s literacy and learning to help children across the country discover […]
To commemorate this year’s Be Book Smart campaign, RIF and Macy’s commissioned a survey of parents of young children on topics ranging from summer learning to book access. Key findings from the survey include: Three in five parents don’t believe their own children lose reading skills over the summer – however during the summer months, we […]
RIF and Macy’s held a book distribution at Nalle Elementary School in Washington, DC to kick off a summer reading pilot program based on the model from RIF’s landmark research study, Read for Success. Our thanks to everyone at Nalle, especially the students, who made the day a special one! An additional thanks goes out to Macy’s […]
We asked you last summer to stay tuned for big news from RIF, and we’re ready to share. Thanks to a U.S. Department of Education Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant in 2012, we began the RIF Read for Success research study to test a model aimed at reducing summer reading loss in children from economically […]
Who says science is boring? Certainly not the elementary school children we are working with across the country through our Summer Reading Success Program, funded by an Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. In our program, as well as in the annual book collection that we started in 2007 […]
It’s a slippery slope. “Summer Slide” is what we use to describe learning loss for children over the summer – a loss disproportionately affecting underserved children. Researchers put it at two months (if not more) of learning loss. And the effect is cumulative, causing a significant achievement gap between low and middle-income children down the […]
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