About Audibleįounded in 1995 after company founder, Don Katz spent years running around Central Park listening to books on tape, Audible’s 250,000 audio programs in digital formats is now downloaded and played on iOS, Android, and Windows Phones, Amazon devices like Kindle Touch & Keyboard, Fire Tablets, and Amazon Echo, as well as tablets and computers.

Besides trips to the library to browse new titles, downloading books on an eReader before a family trip, and incentives to read offered by bookstores, audio books from Audible are a great tool to add to your summer reading arsenal. The best way to keep kids learning is to find fun activities that they will enjoy and can be done during small chunks of time throughout each day to help them keep up their reading skills. While formal reading instruction allows kids to make huge gains during the school year, there is always a setback when reading isn’t done outside school.Īccording to, “time spent actually reading is the best predictor of reading achievement – the more students read, the better readers they become” but how do you engage kids in a variety of different reading activities over the summer? One of the biggest reasons for summer reading loss is due to the inability to access materials. The National Summer Learning Foundation believes that to succeed in school and life, children and young adults need ongoing opportunities to learn and practice essential skills but when school closes for the summer, come fall, teachers find themselves reteaching important reading skills that were taught the previous year. Whether you call it the summer slide or brain drain, the effects of our kids being out of school can set them back.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of AudibleĪs another busy school year winds down and we look towards pool time, vacations, camps, and unstructured time that are synonymous with summer, this is also the time of the year that we begin worry about the loss of skills that our kids can experience during the months that they’re away from the classroom.

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