Wood County’s Jefferson Elementary School is getting its own Summer Book Binge and a Snuggle & Read event, thanks to a $20,600 grant from Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal Company.
Read Aloud’s Summer Book Binge is based on research at Vanderbilt University that found about half a dozen freely chosen books given to students at the end of the school year was more effective at preventing summer learning loss than $3,000 worth of summer school.
Each of Jefferson’s 400 students will browse and “order” six books this spring, which will then be personalized, packed and delivered in a book bag at a festive event at the end of the school year.
Read Aloud’s Summer Book Binge was started at Crichton Elementary School in Greenbrier County, where reading scores jumped from the bottom in the county to the top in four years.
Children who have high-interest books and adults to make a big deal of reading for fun, will read for pleasure and maintain or even gain skills over the summer.