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Gearing Up for Summer Reading As Youth Services staff design reading templates, organize community sponsorship and develop engaging classes and creative events for families during Summer Reading, we ask that you reach out with your support of this worthwhile mission to keep Iowa readers strong. Staff work to ensure that each child in our community has the opportunity to access books and materials, is rewarded for building their literacy skills during the summer, and connects with others through the fun and safe environment of the library. Yet, we also depend on your participation in the Summer Reading Programs, your word-of-mouth promotion of the library, and your volunteer efforts to encourage each young reader to succeed.
STEM
Increasingly, business leaders, educators, industry experts, and others are rallying around the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in education. This is a key issue for K-12 education and public libraries as it is a requirement to create the kind of workforce our country needs. By 2018, 8 million jobs in the U.S. economy will require a college degree in STEM, according to a Georgetown University study. This year’s Summer Reading Program promotes STEM through its themes — Children: Fizz! Boom! Read!, Teens: Spark a Reaction, and Adults: Literary Elements. This summer, Burlington Public Library will continue literacy, numeracy and social development with fun, interactive classes, incentives and events.
The “Summer Slide”
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Something is waiting for many children every summer, and their parents don’t even know it’s out there. It's called the "summer slide," and it describes what happens when young minds sit idle for three months. Children who do not read over the summer can lose more than two months of reading achievement. Summer reading loss is cumulative. By the end of 6th grade children who lose reading skills over the summer will be 2 years behind their classmates. Register the children in your life and sign up yourself for Summer Reading starting June 6 and avoid the summer slide.
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