 Summer Time is Reading Time
Best Reads for the Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
Our best advice about a summer reading routine? Take it outside! Whether you're at the beach, in your backyard, or on the road for a family vacation, make books and reading with your littles ones part of your summer plans.
Check out our pinboard filled with books about summer. Or, check out the links below for some recommended summer reads.
Don't forget to check out your local library! Many of them offer summer reading programs or have story time or other activities for very young children.
Summer Reading Tips for Parents of Babies, Toddlers and Young Children
Reading Rockets 2013 Big Summer Read - recommended reads for 0 - 3 year olds and 3 - 6 year olds
Road Trip? Travel Reads: Selecting Books for Family Vacations
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 Did You Know?
Exposing children to a variety of new experiences, like new sights, sounds and
smells, and especially language and literacy, helps build the foundation necessary for learning to read and write. Since the brain operates on a "use it or lose it" basis, the more stimulation and interaction that a child has with her environment (being read, talked to, played with) the stronger the connections, or wiring in the brain become. |
