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Summer Reading Programs Keep Readers Engaged By Grace Allen The Norfolk and Wrentham public libraries are once again participating in the Massachusetts Library Association’s summer reading program. Children, teens, and even adults are encouraged to keep reading through the summer. According to Marissa Antosh, the Senior Youth Services Librarian at the Norfolk Public Library, summer reading should reinforce the reading skills children learned during the school year, avoiding the much-lamented “summer slide.” Said Antosh, “The idea behind summer reading is to reinforce those reading skills and weave reading into everyday life so it isn’t such a chore.” Summer reading programs let kids choose the books they want to read, instead of being told which books they have to read, which often happens dur-
ing the school year. Of course, no one needs a formal program to keep reading through the summer. Children and adults who love to read will always keep reading. Distractions abound, however, in our wired and connected world. So summer reading programs usually have incentives or prizes to keep kids motivated. And as any parent knows, incentives can go
a long way when trying to get kids to do something. When Antosh became the Youth Services Librarian in 2013, the summer reading prize was a book. She felt, however, that reluctant readers would not appreciate a book for a prize, so she changed the program to offer other incentives too.
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