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Read Works

Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Back to School Packet: Pre K and K

For Students Pre-K - K
Use these back to school-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Getting Ready for School: Booklet Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Get ready to go back to school with this booklet activity from PBS Kids! Students will have an opportunity to reflect on their fun summers and think ahead to the new school year.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Getting Ready for School

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Get ready to go back to school with these resources from PBS KIDS! Help students plan their first week of school, identify new routines, prepare for the year ahead, and reflect on their summer with these printables.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Summer Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about the importance of summer reading through this informative resource. Scholastic.com provides teachers with links to summer booklists, articles on summer reading and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teachers: Bridging the Summer Reading Gap

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides an article that discusses the importance of summer reading for students. Find out what schools can do to help improve student's participation in summer reading.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Seasonal Observations: Summer

For Students 3rd - 5th
While many of us consider it summer once school is released, this season technically begins with the summer solstice - the longest day of the year - on June 21 and continues until the fall equinox in September.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A good lesson plan, to be used during the last month of the school year, for motivating students to remain faithful to reading over the summer. Uses strategies such as student-chosen books and persuasive writing techniques.
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Other

School of Cinema and Performing Arts: Summer Youth Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about summer programs at the School of Cinema and Performing Arts for middle and high school students interested in careers in filmmaking, acting, urban dance, music video production, or photography. Browse the school's site...
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Friends: School Is Out for the Summer!

For Students K - 1st
Now that school is out for the summer, children have many new adventures and experiences. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive collection of documents, images, digital collections, and teacher resources related to the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Civil rights activists traveled throughout Mississippi registering rural Mississippians...
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Read Works

Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that gives some pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Alearn's Summer Math Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on Alearn's Summer Math Program, a non-profit organization that is committed to help more low-income, underrepresented students prepare for and complete college. These students often come with significant gaps in...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Engaging Family & Community in Afterschool and Summer Programs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Informal literacy experiences often serve to shape young people's identity as readers and writers as much as or more than formal schooling.Community and family support can emphasize the importance of reading and writing, build...
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Other

Civil Rights Documentation Project: 1964: Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief description of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and listen to the comments of some of the civil rights activists who participated in the project in 1964.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Finding a Summer Job or Internship

For Students 9th - 10th
As the summer begins teens rush out to grab the most desirable job. Learn what you should consider before acquiring employment and how to make your part time job as rewarding as possible.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is an art idea for young students returning to school after summer break. Website provides ideas for making unique collages conveying any theme.
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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessment: "Summer Rain" [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for students in the high school grades. Five multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on thia nonfiction reading assessment.
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Other

Civil Rights Movement 1955 1965: Mississippi & Freedom Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at Mississippi in the early 1960s to understand why the focus of African American voter registration targeted that state. Read about the organization and implementation of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964. See also the...
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Other

Paul Yee: 'What Happened This Summer' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching guide provided by Paul Yee for his book of short stories, "What Happened This Summer", provides a summary of the book, discussion questions and classroom activities. The book explores the issues faced by Chinese-Canadian...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Beach Bag Full of Summer Learning Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learning shouldn't stop just because school is out. Here are some ideas to keep students reading, writing and thinking all summer long.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: The Real Deal on Repeating a Grade

For Students 3rd - 8th
How would you feel if you just found out you needed to repeat a grade? Maybe you just found out that you actually do need to repeat. It really isn't that uncommon for students to repeat some grades in school. Use this article to help you...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Learn's Summer Math Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
See how ALearn and Khan Academy help solve the achievement gap.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Summer Bridge Programs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
More students fail ninth grade than any other grade and many of these students ultimately drop out. Can pre-emptive interventions lead to increased graduation rates? Emerging evidence suggests that eight-grade transition programs...

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