Youth Services News Summer Reading question

[Barbara Hambek]

Hello All Again!

I was reminded that I did not specify that we keep track of our reading hours collectively, so each reading tracker adds to the final total at the end of the year, which is how we came close to 3500 reading hours for the summer. I have attached a PDF copy of what we used last year. We will use the same idea this year, but with artwork from this years theme. We use brightly colored stock paper to create the bookmarks, and buy tens of thousands of small stickers for the kids to use on them! Everyone, parents, kids volunteers, liked the simplicity of this method in comparison to what we have done in the past.

Barbara Hambek
Library Specialist
Edgewood Community Library
171B State Rd 344 North
Edgewood NM 87015
(505) 281-0138

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Last year we changed it up and created bookmarks for the kids to fill in with stickers or whatever. When their bookmark was full, it meant they had read for 4 hours, they turned it in for a prize, another bookmark, and it was an automatic entry into the final prize drawing. It increased the hours our kids read exponentially! We got close to 3500 hours read for the summer, a first for our little library. It went over so well, we are doing it the same way this year.

Barbara Hambek
Library Specialist
Edgewood Community Library
171B State Rd 344 North
Edgewood NM 87015
(505) 281-0138

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Subject: Youth Services News Summer Reading question

Good morning Youth Services staff!
I received a question this morning that I thought I would put to you all: how do you run the reading component of a Summer Reading Program? Do you track minutes, books, chapters? Do you use a BINGO sheet? Is there a passive component of your program that someone new could possibly implement?

I know how some of you run it, and those that have shared their materials with me I do share out but I just thought I'd get the conversation going for those that might need some inspiration or are thinking of changing it up a bit.

Feel free to respond to the listserv so everyone can read the answers!

Deanne Dekle
Youth Services & Outreach Consultant
New Mexico State Library
505-476-9705
1-800-340-3890
deanne.dekle at state.nm.us<mailto:deanne.dekle at state.nm.us>

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