Resources
Please see the Lexile Framework paper on summer reading, as well as these other
articles, links, and books.
Articles
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“Stop Summer Academic Loss: An Education Policy Priority”
Malbert Smith, III, and Dee Brewer, March 2007
- “Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Achievement: Results
From a Randomized Field Trial”
1 James S. Kim, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Winter 2006
- “Summer Vacation: A Setback
For Poor School Children”
Cathy Keen, University of Florida News, June 2002
- “Summer Learning Loss: The
Problem and Some Solutions”
Harris Cooper, ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education,
May 2003
- “What If
Summer Learning Loss Were and Education Priority Policy?”
Ronald Fairchild and Matthew Boulay, Presentation for APPAM Research Conference,
November 2002
- “Bridging
the Summer Reading Gap”
Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard Allington, Instructor, May/June 2003
- “What Did You Learn Last
Summer?”
Susan Black, American School Board Journal, February 2005
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“Making a Splash with Summer Reading”
Walter Minkel, School Library Journal, January 2003
- “Study: Summer
Reading Helps Students”
Walter Minkel, School Library Journal, February 2002
- "Taking the
Show on the Road"
Walter Minkel, School Library Journal, February 2002
Links
Books