By Melinda Hodges
It’s summer again! Here at the Buda Public Library, the Summer Reading Clubs are in full swing.
We know how important it is to keep reading, especially for students who are still building up their brainpower. Reading and attending educational classes help students fight the “summer slide” that can strip students of knowledge and skills learned over the previous school year. Kids and teens need to keep reading over the summer in order to keep up the skills they build up each school year. This way, when school starts back up, they can jump back in where they stopped, instead of having to fight to regain what they lost over the summer.
How do our reading clubs work? We have three reading clubs: title readers, time readers and teen readers. Our title logs are for newborns through second graders who are mostly reading picture books. They keep up with the titles of the books that they read. Our time log readers (entering 2nd grade through 6th grade) and teen readers (entering 7th through 12th grade) keep track of the number of minutes that they read.
Many local businesses have donated prizes to keep our kids and teens motivated to keep reading all summer long. Because of their support, everyone gets a small prize every time they turn in a reading log and gets chances to win bigger prizes at the award ceremonies at the end of the summer. You can turn in logs until August 6 so there’s still plenty of time to get started.
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