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This year's theme:Read on the Wild Side!
Background
Most public libraries throughout Australia will offer a Summer Reading Club and holiday activities for children aged five years and older and their families over the summer break. For information about the Summer Reading Club, including the official website, press releases, librarian's manual, the competition, ordering materials and more see our web page: Summer Reading club.
The ALIA Summer Reading Club program draws inspiration from the iREAD program created by the Illinois Library Association. This partnership allows us to share the creativity of library colleagues on two continents.
Why hold a Summer Reading Club program!
- Summer reading helps students return to school in the new year ready to learn and with greater reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
- The materials are ready to use and the program is flexible to allow it to be tailored to your library environment and your clients.
- Holiday activities can be incorporated as part of the club at your library.
- Maintain or even increase library use by children and their families over the summer break.
- Create excitement in children about reading for leisure;
- By combining reading and other activities dispel the myth that libraries are boring places and that reading is only ever done alone.
- Provide reading support to families through booklists, and sharing your knowledge and expertise.
We want to hear from libraries holding Summer Reading Club programs!
If you have used the Summer Reading Club materials, ideas or theme, please share in this wiki, your successes, challenges, materials you have developed, anything you feel would be helpful to others. You can write about it in the wiki and/or provide a link to other websites.
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