Welcome back to the Literacy Monday Linkup. This week we are talking about bridging the summer learning gap. Studies prove the importance of planning summer educational activities.

 Quick Tips For Bridging the Summer Learning Gap

• Visit your public library regularly. Public libraries have summer reading programs that offer incentives to encourage children to keep reading. Often these programs include prizes that they give children as incentives for reading a certain number of hours or books. Children and youth librarians also plan special events at the library geared toward children. If you work, often libraries have extended evening hours certain nights of the week. Be sure to check your library’s webpage for details on events and programs offered during the summer.
• Seek online resources for help. The National Summer Learning Association has great tip sheets and resources. Be sure to check out their information on National Summer Learning Day which happens this Thursday.  An organization near you may have great activities planned.
• Use everyday activities as opportunities to practice math learning skills. When you go grocery shopping, let your child keep a running calculation on how much you spend on groceries.  When cooking, let them measure out the ingredients for a recipe.
• Encourage them to keep a summer journal, writing down their memories and thoughts about the activities and fun things they did during the summer months.
• Encourage them to use their computers for learning activities.  Organizations create free sites full of fun games and learning ideas. Here are just a few:
  • Family Education Online Magazine (really great all year long!)
  • Fun Brain :  I love their reading games. Great for all ages.
  • Great Kids article on 10 Ways to Keep Your Child Learning This Summer: This article has even more great tips and resources.
  • Scholastic has great article as well such as Creative Summer Learning Ideas and be sure to check out their Summer Learning site for Parents.
• This week Amazon has a great sale on the classic Summer Bridge Activity workbooks.  (Affiliate link: if you use it to purchase, I will receive a small percentage that I use to pay my blogging expenses. Thanks for your support!)

What activities have you planned to bridge the summer reading gap for your children. Do you have any old posts with summer learning gap activities to share?  Please link them or leave our ideas in the comments area. 🙂

 

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Now on to our weekly Literacy Musing Monday’s linkup where we link up posts about what inspires you in reading, writing, blogging, and even share our written Bible devotions.

First,  let’s

 

 

Leslie@Forever Joyful  Blog/Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/Google+Gayl@Words, Photos, and ArtBlog/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest/TwitterMary @Maryandering Creatively  Blog/Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/ Instagram/Google+Tami @ThisMomsDelight    (on summer break) 🙂Blog/Facebook/Pinterest/Twitter/Instagram/Google Plus 

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Now let’s celebrate reading and learning.

Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!

10 Awesome Reasons for Reading Aloud to Your Kids Whatever Their Age

Reblog by Bette A. Stevens at 4WritersandReaders

Written by Sandra Bennett – Author

Bette shared with us a link to an article written by Sandra Bennett.  This article lists some really important reasons to keep reading to our children all the way through to their teens. I so agree that it is important to instill a love of reading in our children. Don’t miss this post. 🙂

 

My Favorite Post of the Week:

You Are What You Behold

by Kristen Hatton at Women Abiding

 

This post is not for the faint of heart, but Kristen writes some important truths that every Christian mother should embrace. I hope you will check it out!

Remember to check out other hosts’  blogs to see which posts from last week were their favorites. Want to be the next to be featured! Just link up a post and if you are read the most, we will feature you. Also please make sure you link back to us so others will know about our link up and join in. We try to make it worth your while to linkup with us by promoting your posts across our social media networks. We also pin our most clicked and featured posts to our Pinterest Board each week!

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Now, it is time to link up to the Literacy Musing Mondays hop! You will have until Saturdays at 12 p.m. now to link up! So come back often.

Linkup Rules:

1. Include a link back or the blog hop button linked to this hop on your posts.
2. Link up the urls to your posts not to your blog.
3. Please remember this is a family-friendly linkup. Although we believe in the right for adults to read whatever they want to read, we prefer to read wholesome posts that feature literature that edify and uplift families. We reserve the right to delete any posts that are not family friendly. We love all kinds of literature and genres including family-friendly inspirational romances, fantasy, or science fiction. We do not welcome posts featuring books or writing with excessive violence, sexual content, or cursing. These posts will be deleted.
4. We also want to be loving community by supporting one another. Please make a point to do this this week! Visit the two posts before yours and at least one other blogger’s post of your choice! I want to see lots of clicks on everyone’s posts. Remember it is also nice to follow them on their social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
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6. Tweet about the link up too.

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Let’s Celebrate Reading and Learning together this week at Literacy Musing Mondays!

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