How parents can keep kids’ reading on track over summer
BOGGLE ... AND TV?
Story time isn't the only way to nurture young readers over the summer.
"Play board games," says Kelli Kilmartin, a former English teacher who is the Minnesota district manager of Sylvan Learning, a tutoring service. "Every school expert out there will tell you games like Scrabble, Boggle and Apples to Apples, anything that involves words, is going to help their vocabulary, which will increase their reading fluency."
To build reading comprehension and work on writing — often a lost art in the summer — Kilmartin recommends that parents could even use television to their advantage.