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Dr. Michael Rice, PhD
Kalamazoo Superintendent of Schools
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Kalamazoo Superintendent of Schools
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Literacy: An Answer to the Summer Slide
This summer, KPS will be sending a book every week and a half to all children in the
district who will be 6th graders next fall.
This initiative, an outgrowth of pilot projects funded by the Kellogg Foundation in the
summers of 2008 and 2009, is an effort to address the “summer slide,” the drop in
student achievement that takes place during the summer for many of our students.
Our extended pilot in the summer of 2009 generated an important and encouraging
result: children going into the 6th grade who received a book every week and a half in
the mail during the summer outperformed their peers who did not receive books
during the summer by 5.5 months, almost half a year, in their reading performance.
In a short-term study, this is very significant improvement.
As a result, we are expanding upon the pilot projects of the last two years in the
summer of 2010, when all children will receive summer books. As in the pilots,
these books will be the choices of students, in their areas of interest and at levels
roughly at or above their current reading levels.
All 5th grade teachers will receive training on what is expected of students in the
summer reading, and teachers will be responsible for conveying this information to
students in early June as the school year is ending. Parents will be asked to read
with their children for at least 20 minutes a day in the summer and to discuss the
reading with their children.
One of the eight summer books will be the same for all children and will be the
subject of all-group discussion at the middle schools when students enter 6th grade
in the fall. Summer school students entering 6th grade in the fall will work in
summer school on the all-school-read book to prepare them for the fall discussions.
Summer literacy is one of seven areas of the $150,000 Kellogg Foundation literacy
planning grant that KPS received in June 2009. The other six areas are: parent
education for the parents of newborns, parent education for the parents of 3-4 year
olds, pre-school, family literacy, literacy for struggling readers, and literacy in after-
school programs. For the purpose of our work, literacy is defined as language
development, reading, and writing.
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Posted CVs March 17, 2010
This summer, KPS will be sending a book every week and a half to all children in the
district who will be 6th graders next fall.
This initiative, an outgrowth of pilot projects funded by the Kellogg Foundation in the
summers of 2008 and 2009, is an effort to address the “summer slide,” the drop in
student achievement that takes place during the summer for many of our students.
Our extended pilot in the summer of 2009 generated an important and encouraging
result: children going into the 6th grade who received a book every week and a half in
the mail during the summer outperformed their peers who did not receive books
during the summer by 5.5 months, almost half a year, in their reading performance.
In a short-term study, this is very significant improvement.
As a result, we are expanding upon the pilot projects of the last two years in the
summer of 2010, when all children will receive summer books. As in the pilots,
these books will be the choices of students, in their areas of interest and at levels
roughly at or above their current reading levels.
All 5th grade teachers will receive training on what is expected of students in the
summer reading, and teachers will be responsible for conveying this information to
students in early June as the school year is ending. Parents will be asked to read
with their children for at least 20 minutes a day in the summer and to discuss the
reading with their children.
One of the eight summer books will be the same for all children and will be the
subject of all-group discussion at the middle schools when students enter 6th grade
in the fall. Summer school students entering 6th grade in the fall will work in
summer school on the all-school-read book to prepare them for the fall discussions.
Summer literacy is one of seven areas of the $150,000 Kellogg Foundation literacy
planning grant that KPS received in June 2009. The other six areas are: parent
education for the parents of newborns, parent education for the parents of 3-4 year
olds, pre-school, family literacy, literacy for struggling readers, and literacy in after-
school programs. For the purpose of our work, literacy is defined as language
development, reading, and writing.
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Posted CVs March 17, 2010
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