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    Prevent Summer Learning Loss
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    Summer is coming, but if you think these lazy, hazy days should be all play, take a look at the following statistics and learning retention strategies for parents offered by Alice Spingola, district literacy coach:

    • On average, students lose approximately 2.6 months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills during the summer months.

    • Elementary students can lose two or more months of math knowledge or reading skills, or 22 percent of what they learned.

    • The most comprehensive study of the effects of summer vacation on standardized test scores indicates that children‘s test scores are at least one month lower when they return in the fall than when they leave in the spring. That adds up to a full year or more of lost potential before they go to college or a career.

    • Research shows that teachers typically spend between 4-6 weeks re-teaching material that students have forgotten over the summer.

    With such staggering statistics, it is important that parents "plan" for the summer before the children develop their own schedule, Spingola explains.

    Because texting, Facebooking, playing video games, and watching television all vie for your child’s attention, she says parents need to plan ahead to prevent struggles that ensue in nearly every household at this time of year.

     

    Get your calendars ready and make time for the following activities that will assist in preventing the summer slide, Spingola recommends. Have your child:

    1. Complete 5-10 grade appropriate math problems three or four times a week in order to keep math skills fresh.

              2. Read four to five books during the summer.

    3. Reserve time for family reading. This is a great time to discuss the book you and your child are reading.

    4. Visit the Evergreen Park Public Library and sign up for their various programs. For information, log onto www.evergreenparklibrary.org

    5. Set expectations and limits. Parents can have the children "bank" time for watching TV and playing video games by earning points for completing the above activities before partaking in other non- academic activities.