Summer Opportunities for Students
Happy Friday!!! Tuesday starts a Summer Break for many students. Listed below are a few community based resources available to keep students positively and productively engaged.
Check them out!!
- Mission Possible: Summer Learning for Struggling Readers is a how-to guide for school districts from the Governor’s Office on Student Achievement on how to develop a summer learning program that keeps children on track to achieve grade-level reading, following the model of Savannah Read on Grade Level program. https://gosa.georgia.gov/sites/gosa.georgia.gov/files/Mission%20Possible-%20Summer%20Learning%20for%20Struggling%20Readers.pdf
- Georgia's Summer Reading Challenge is a statewide effort from the Georgia Department of Education to encourage Georgia's schoolchildren to read for at least 15 to 30 minutes every day over the summer. "Find a Book, Georgia" is a mobile device “app” as well as a webpage that enables parents and children to use the child's Lexile score on the state standardized reading test to find appropriate books for the child. http://www.gadoe.org/curriculum-instruction-and-assessment/curriculum-and-instruction/pages/georgia-summer-reading-challenge.aspx
- Georgia's Summer Food Access Initiative, at the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning, will provide healthy meals at libraries in 20 Georgia counties this summer using federal USDA funding in conjunction with language and literacy programming and health services to ensure that children have the vaccinations they need to begin school in August. To learn more about how your county can take part, contact Falita Flowers (falita.flowers@decal.ga.gov).
- The Mayor's Summer Reading Club, organized by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, engages public and private partners to distribute free age-appropriate books to children, ages birth to 8, at family-friendly events held across the city over the summer months. http://www.mayorsreadingclub.org/
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