Summer Reading Challenge Bookmarks

Summer Reading Challenge Bookmarks to encourage kids to read during the summer months! Perfect to help your child stay on task and motivate them to get a head start on their summer reading books.

Summer Reading Challenge Bookmarks

As a teacher and former homeschooling mom, I know the importance of reading for young children. That’s why even during the summer months I encourage every parent to make sure they are reading for a minimum of 30 minutes a day.

Encouraging your kids to read is not always the simplest of tasks, which is why I created this summer reading challenge packet for you to print out for free.

It’s a great way for you and your child to keep track of their everyday reading minutes. Plus, you can also use it as a reward system for the end of the week.

I hope you enjoy the book challenge as much as my daughters do!

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How To Encourage Your Child To Read More

Encouraging your kids to read more books during the summer can be a bit difficult when all they want to do is play video games, go biking, or anything else that doesn’t involve a book.

The great thing is that you can always find ways to encourage your kids to read and I want to share a few ways I do that in my home.

When it comes to reading my oldest daughter can be easily persuaded, in fact, she usually has a book in her hand.

My youngest daughter, on the other hand, needs a little bit more encouragement. That’s when these printables come in handy! She loves writing things down.

• As your child what kind of books they want to read.
• Search on Pinterest for book title ideas according to age or grade level. This will give you lots of choices to help your child decide on a book.
• Search on Google for age-appropriate books according to the genre that you know your child would enjoy reading.
• Ask them who their favorite character, game, movie, or television show is. Most of the time you can find books in that category.
• If your child likes electronics consider getting them a Fire Kindle for Kids or a Kindle Reader for tweens and teens.

Tip: My girls have had their Fire Kindle since it first came out and they still use it to read. I love that I can change the parenting settings according to their ages and I can control what they can do on it.

You can even time it to the games and apps only are available once they have read a certain amount of minutes beforehand. Genius, isn’t it?!

Summer Reading Bookmarks For Kids

Included in the summer reading challenge:

• Several different Summer Reading Bookmarks also will be used to punch out or mark a square every time your children reads for 30 minutes. {Bookmarks for younger readers, tween/teens, and even adults.
• A reading log to jot down book titles, keeping track of pages, and reading minutes.
• Book summary worksheet for older grades to work on story comprehension and summary.
• Books I Want To Read sheet for your child to keep track of books they are interested in.

To download your reading bookmarks simply sign up below with your email and I will immediately send you a downloadable link.

How To Use The Summer Reading Bookmarks

I wanted to quickly go over an easy way to use this free reading printable packet.

Reading Challenge Bookmarks:

• Print out with card stock paper and laminate.
• After your child has read for 30 minutes, they are allowed to either punch out the square box or check mark it with a marker.
• I have created three different bookmarks for ages preschool to high school.

Reading Log:

• Print out and if you want to re-use one sheet all summer I suggest laminating the sheet.
• Have your child fill in the book they read, how long they read for, and the pages they read.

Book Summary:

• The book summary can be used for older elementary through high school.
• It’s a great way to get your child to start summarizing chapters or even the entire book. If you search Google, you can usually find a book summary that can help you help your child if you haven’t read the book.
• You can also use this for younger kids to write out what their favorite part of the book was—getting them started on story comprehension skills.

I hope this helps you have a more relaxed and less stressful summer when it comes to encouraging your kids to read!

Picking up a new book is just a new adventure they get to explore! Remind them it’s also a wonderful way to explore an entirely new world!

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How do you keep track of your child’s reading time during the summer?