Doing these things can keep your child’s reading skills active:

• Set aside a period of time each day for all family members to read together, quietly to themselves or aloud.

• If you can, subscribe to one or two magazines for your child.

• Make extra trips to the library for reading material.

• Send a reading “care package” to your child at camp. Or make up one for home. Include comics, magazines, and books by favorite authors.

• Suggest that your child keep a reading log. She can title it “Books I’ve Read This Summer” and list the name, author, and date of each book read.

• Collect maps and travel brochures together to read before making family trips and excursions.

• Encourage your child to start a summer reading group. Members can lend each other books and share their reactions to what they’ve read.

• If your child is interested in a certain movie or video, suggest that she first read the book on which it is based.

• Read what your child reads and take time to talk about it.

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