Toolkit

Bookmark leading to the “Reinvent Your Summer” activities, which offer fun and educational daily challenges for families, aimed at maintaining the joy of learning during the holidays.

Examples of challenges for “Reinvent Your Summer”:

• Reading and writing: Create a journal of activities, write a weekly challenge list, or organize a book-themed scavenger hunt.
  Creative activities: Decorate an achievement jar and add an item for each completed challenge.
  Outdoor/physical activities: Create physical challenges based on the alphabet.
  Cooking and discovery: Cook as a family or write recipes.

These challenges are part of an effort to prevent the “summer slide,” helping children stay intellectually engaged. Printable resources, are sometimes included in these initiatives to encourage reading.

This summer, challenge yourself to engage in a daily reading and numeracy activity with your children!

Examples of challenges for “Reinvent Your Summer”:

• Reading and writing: Create a journal of activities, write a weekly challenge list, or organize a book-themed scavenger hunt.
  Creative activities: Decorate an achievement jar and add an item for each completed challenge.
  Outdoor/physical activities: Create physical challenges based on the alphabet.
  Cooking and discovery: Cook as a family or write recipes.

These challenges are part of an effort to prevent the “summer slide,” helping children stay intellectually engaged. Printable resources, are sometimes included in these initiatives to encourage reading.

Here are some activity ideas to do with your children at home during the summer holidays to keep their brains stimulated and make a difference, all while having fun.

Infographic explaining the summer slide phenomenon and how to mitigate its effects for at-risk students and increase their chances of success.

Fun reading activities and literacy games for camp counsellors and others running activities about literacy.

As part of the Summer Slide project, the Réseau québécois pour la réussite éducative has partnered with Frontier College to offer a series of webinars to community-based youth workers on the topic of facilitating reading. This webinar introduces the basics of facilitation. Note that the webinar is only available in French, but the PPT is in English.

10 “Treasure Hunt” flyers for parents to use with their child when visiting a grocery store or while at a party for children.

A series of 56 illustrations designed for parents that present interesting tips for approaching reading and how to integrate it into the daily life of their preschool or elementary school child. The illustrations are available in both PDF and JPG format.

The reading booklet contains 8 infosheets aiming to provide parents with the tools they need to help their children learn to read throughout their academic journey.