Kids Read Now Eliminating the Summer Slide by Serving Children OESCA – Madison Champaign ESC 2017/12/19 Kevin Sorice 937-963-9209 kevin@kidsreadnow.org

Agenda Summer Slide & Students Five Pillars of a Successful Summer Program Family Engagement Research & Strategies MU

Outcomes It is our sincere hope that participants today will develop a deeper understanding of the: Repercussions of Summer Slide on Students in Poverty Five Pillars of a Successful Summer Program Importance of Engaging Families MU

Count on Us Count on You To provide relevant & current resources To share current research & strategies To be open to your questions To embrace the research To examine your own practices To seek application MU Count on Me, I’ll Count on You is from the Adaptive Schools model. They are established to ensure there are working agreements within the group.

From Richard Allington Summer reading loss contributes to achievement gap…4 years by 12th grade No Books = No Voluntary Reading "The number of books children read and their use of the public library both correlated strongly with socioeconomic status, and predicted summer gains or losses“ (Entwisle, Alexander and Olson 1997, p. 40). MU Richard Allington’s presentation for further background: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l1lXrhnqH_h83SDwmGLB2qbG3g0NH15gLgfL JZ01n_c/edit?usp=sharing Keynote from West Michigan Literacy Symposium, Spring 2017 5

From Richard Allington 12-15 books a summer, 3 year study: Increased reading development 50% of a grade level, or a little over 2 months increase each summer At the end of the 3 year period poor kids who got summer books each summer read more than a half year better than the poor students who did not receive books for summer voluntary reading Keynote from West Michigan Literacy Symposium, Spring 2017 MU Mention that Dr. Allington’s research on the summer slide served as a foundation for KRN, leading into the next slide...

Kids Read Now K-3rd Grade Summer Reading Program Founded in 2010 by Leib and Barb Lurie Since 2010, Kids Read Now has provided over 160,000 books to almost 27,000 students in 45 school districts across four states Official partner of National Summer Learning Association AM The research on the summer slide shows that it has devastating effects on K-3rd graders, which is why the Luries founded KRN.

How Kids Read Now Works AM

Why Kids Read Now Works AM Briefly review each pillar

Parental engagement New professional development series helps educators to effectively incorporate research-based principles into their summer reading initiatives AM Mention the new KRN PD series that dives more deeply into the research on the five pillars. Today we’ll be discussing the research surrounding parental/family engagement.

Engaging your Families Where are your spaces? What works? What has not worked? MU Facilitator just poses questions to think about.

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement Schools host a Family Reading Night Student gets first three books Parent gets a Parent Guide written at 4th grade level explaining the program and how to keep their children reading AK

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement Each book has four reading comprehension activities inside the cover Text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world, creative activity Written at the Lexile level of the book Teachers encouraged to model activities in class AK

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement We send each guardian a weekly call, text, or email reminder to keep them engaged in the program AK

Kids Read Now - Family Engagement Biweekly motivational messages give parents ongoing tips and tools to keep their kids reading AK This is what KRN does to engage families, now we’ll look at the research that supports these elements of the program (leading into next slide)

Family Engagement - Schools Educators help families add to their repertoire of strategies for promoting literacy at home, including supporting families to: Prompt children during reading and writing and demonstrate ways to incorporate literacy-promoting strategies into everyday activities Support children in doing their homework and in academic learning over the summer months MU From School-Level Essentials (#10): http://www.gomaisa.org/sites/default/files/K-3%20Literacy%20Essentials%203.2016.pdf#overlay-context=general-education-leadership-network 16

Family Engagement- Schools Educators help families add to their repertoire of strategies for promoting literacy at home, including supporting families to: Promote children’s independent reading Speak with children in their home/most comfortable language whether or not that is English Provide literacy-supporting resources, such as: Books they can borrow or keep MU From School-Level Essentials (#10): http://www.gomaisa.org/sites/default/files/K-3%20Literacy%20Essentials%203.2016.pdf#overlay-context=general-education-leadership-network 17

Summer Reading - Schools A school’s ambitious summer reading initiative supports reading growth by: Facilitating opportunities for every child to read books and access texts during the summer (ex. public libraries) Emphasizing books of high interest to children and offering book selections within the likely range of reading levels within each class MU From School-Level Essentials: http://www.gomaisa.org/sites/default/files/K-3%20Literacy%20Essentials%203.2016.pdf#overlay-context=general-education-leadership-network Show this brief but pointed video making a connection to the importance of real texts/books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BK_2VULCU 18

Summer Reading - Schools A school’s ambitious summer reading initiative supports reading growth by: Providing instruction at the end of the school year to re-emphasize reading comprehension strategies and orient children to summer reading by encouraging use of effective strategies while reading at home Provide structure guidance to parents and guardians to support reading at home (ex. listen to children read aloud, discuss books, and provide feedback) MU From School-Level Essentials 19

Summer Reading MU From School-Level Essentials 20

Summer Reading Results MU From School-Level Essentials 21

Summer Reading Results MU From School-Level Essentials 22

Summer Reading Results http://kidsreadnow.org/book Kevin Sorice 937-963-9209 kevin@kidsreadnow.org MU From School-Level Essentials 23