Summer is rapidly approaching,
and in a little less than two months,
the children will be out of school
again. We at Mauney Library are
preparing for a fantastic Summer
Reading Club with the theme, "The
Whole World in a Book." Mrs.
Louise Sanders, Youth Services
Coordinator, is planning programs
and activities around different cul-
tural groups.
~ Summer Reading Club has be-
* come a tradition in libraries across
nited States. The club has
ogressed from a simple listing of
oks to read to earn a certificate
at the end of the summer, to a well
“developed program with a theme
‘and weekly story times with crafts
and activities. :
As we prepare for this year's
program, it may be a good time to
access the value of the Summer
Reading Club. What is the purpose
‘such a program? What are our
goals and what do we hope to ac-
complish this year.’
~The benefits of participating in:
¢ Summer Reading Club are
‘many, but I have identified five for
the purpose of this article.
1. Summer Reading Club pro-
vides practice in reading. Children
who do not participate in the sum-
er program and who do not read
oon a regular basis during the two
and a half months they are out of
school tend to forget much of what *
“they have learned during the year.
The Summer Reading Club pro-
vides an opportunity for all chil-
dren to practice reading at their
‘own pace in a nonthreatening envi-
ronment. The slow reader can take
his time to get into a book while’
the good reader is free to sample
many different books.
2. Summer Reading Club pro-.
vides children with an opportunity
- to improve their reading skills.
“Reading skills are developed
through practice. As a child reads
more books on an increasingly dif-
ficult level, his skills and his com-
prehension will improve. It is espe-
cially important for the slow reader
Vi
~ to work toward improving his
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theme, the child is not limited in
his reading but can pursue any area
of interest he chooses. There are no
assignments inthe summer reading
club. A child who is interested in
animals may spend his whole sum-
mer reading ‘informational books
about different kinds of animals,
. true stories about animals, and fic-
tional stories about animals.
Interests which must be pushed
aside during the school year be-
cause of lessons and required read-
ing can be developed and explored
during the summer.
4: Summer Reading Club can
help a child enlarge his horizons
and develop new interests. The
more relaxed schedule of the sum-
mer provides a perfect opportunity
to range afar in as many fields as
the child's fancy might lead him.
. Browsing in different subject areas
and different kinds of literature can
open up new worlds and enable the
child to see things from different
perspectives. There is time to de-
velop new interests which may lat-
er become significant in the child's
life.
5. Summer Reading Club pro-
~ motes reading for fun. Much of the
reading done during the school
year is required by the curriculum.
many Students dread book reports
because they have to read books
from a list. But during the Summer
Reading Club, the child can pick
and choose from a vast array of ti-
tles. He can decide for himself
what he wants to read. What fun to
immerse oneself in a story, a selec-
tion of poetry, or a topic of interest.
Not until the child discovers that
reading is fun will reading become
a lifetime habit. Much required and
uninteresting reading is necessary
in the process of education, but is
is the fun reading that keeps once
coming back to books.
In preparing for the 1992
Summer Reading Club, we have
established three measurable goals
which we hope to accomplish.
1. We want to encourage more
children to complete the program.
‘Last year, 360 children enrolled in
the summer program, but only 92
children received certificates. The
low percentage of children who re-
ceived certificates was probably
due to the change in requirements. ~~
Children were asked to count the
number of hours spent reading
rather than the number of pages or
the number of books. This year we
will go back to counting books and
pages. We hope that at least half of
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Summer Reading Club planned at library
the participants will complete the
requirements for certificates.
2. We want to increase day camp
participation in the program. For
the last several years, the Day
Camp has attended programs at the
library on Tuesday morning.
However, counselors did not en-
courage campers to check out
books to read on their own. This
year, we will encourage each
camper to get a card of his own
and to check out books every
week. Library programs alone,
without individual reading, do not
fulfill the requirements for a cer-
tificate. Day campers will be given
.additional opportunities to partici-
pate fully in the program by select-
ing their own books and reading
individually.
3. We hope to increase book cir-
culation in the children's depart-
ment. Last summer we circulated
6,035 items in the junior depart-
ment. This includes not only
books, but audio visual media such
as kits and cassettes. Although oth-
er media provides a pleasant varia-
tion, we will to concentrate on
books and reading as the major fo-
cus of the program. Without read-
ing a child will find his school
years very difficult, indeed.
Summer Reading Club is an excel-
lent opportunity to practice and im-
prove reading skills and develop a
Tove for books.
We are looking forward to an
outstanding program this year, and
hope that all the children in the
Kings Mountain School District
will enroll.
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