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What is Summer Slide?

Many associate summer break with catching frogs by the pond or chasing waves at the beach. Sometimes though, a child can dedicate too much time to outdoor adventures, leaving little time to practice the skills they learned the previous school year.



As a result, children lose skills.



Reading Is Fundamental explains that children can lose "up to three months of reading achievement," and that "by the end of fifth grade children who lose reading skills over the summer will be three years behind their classmates."



THREE YEARS. That means they've lost half their progress. It's because of these immense cumulative declines that Michelle Obama has made the fight against summer learning loss a part of her Reach Higher initiative.

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How Can We Beat Summer Slide?

Give children a choice: According to educational scholar Richard Allington, choice plays a key role not only in motivating children to read more but also in the learning process. Children are drawn to material with which they are already familiar, giving them a starting point from which to expand their knowledge and reading skill.



Access, access, access: The more easily accessible a variety of reading materials are, the more likely students are to read.



Make the everyday activity into a learning activity: We learn so we can better understand the world around us, so it's not surprising that in everyday life, learning opportunities abound. A trip to the grocery store becomes more than that when a child is challenged to add up the prices of your purchases. An evening barbecue can be a learning moment if your child reads the recipe.

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What About When a Parent Isn't Supervising?

Some of the most meaningful learning moments for young people are those that they achieve independently as not only do they increase their knowledge but they also gain trust in themselves so that the next time they face a challenge, they will rise to it.



This is where autodidactic tools like One More Story come in. Not only is our library full of fun, engaging stories with soundtracks that are every bit as exciting as building sandcastles on a hot summer day, but our app was designed from the ground up to provide all the support necessary to allow beginning readers become independent readers.

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