40 Ways to Spice Up Summer Reading for Kids

7/2/2021

By: Alyssa Mendez

Reading can sound like a laborious task for some students, but it doesn’t have to be! Calvary Christian Academy’s Summer Reading Challenge for Lower School families was designed to help parents and students realize that preventing the “summer slide” can take many different, fun forms. Check out these 40 simple ideas to implement in your household!

Reading can sound like a laborious, academic task for some students, especially over the summer when school is not on the forefront of their minds. But this doesn’t have to be the case!

Whether we realize it or not, words are all around us, and we’re constantly interacting with them. Summer reading can involve so much more than remaining focused on a chapter book for hours.

Calvary Christian Academy’s Lower School Summer Reading Challenge was designed to help parents and students realize that keeping the mind engaged during the summer months can take many different, fun forms while also preventing the summer slide — “the loss of academic skills that occurs when school is not in session and which is attributed largely to the lack of reading” (Scholastic, 2019).

Summer reading can involve so much more than remaining focused on a chapter book for hours.

We hope the following 40 ideas help foster a deeper love for literacy in your home and prepare your child(ren) for a successful school year ahead:

Read an e-book
Read a recipe
Read a poetry book
Read a “how-to” book
Read a biography
Read a joke book
Read a chapter book
Read a menu
Read closed captions on TV
Read a magazine
Read a funny book
Read a book about animals
Read your favorite book
Read a book you “think” may be too hard
Read a nonfiction book
Read a fairy tale book
Read a book that rhymes
Read a book about sports
Read for 30 minutes
Read in the grass
Read a book with a one word title
Read a book about a place far away
Read with a flashlight
Read to a parent
Read outside
Read to a stuffed animal
Whisper read a book
Read in bed
Read in the car
Read in your pajamas
Read in a hat
Read past your bedtime
Get up early to read
Read in your closet
Read a book in a silly voice
Read to your family during a meal
Read a book to a friend
Read a book to someone younger than you
Read inside a blanket fort
Read to a Grandparent

Click here to download a printable PDF of this summer reading challenge!

P.S. Did you know that businesses like Barnes & Noble, Pizza Hut, TD Bank, and Chuck E. Cheese reward students with freebies for participating in summer reading? 🙌

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