Summer reading charts to help your child stay motivated to read this summer

 

 

This post includes links to some creative and fun summer reading charts to help your child stay motivated to read this summer.

Summer is full of fun activities, nice weather, beach days and trips to the park.  It can be hard to stay motivated to stick to your regular reading routine with these fun distractions. I have found some amazing links to summer reading charts and logs to help your child want to read regularly this summer! These links have charts that turn daily reading into scavenger hunts, bingo, board games and there is even a balloon popping reading chart!!

Summer Reading Challenge Chart

This chart is a customizable and free printable summer reading chart with circles that kids can color. Each circle is worth a point and you can decide how many points each book is worth. If your child is reading longer books, each circle might be worth reading a chapter or a number of chapters. After a certain number of circles are colored in, an icon shows a picture of prize that your child can earn. 

https://www.chickenbabies.com/2012/06/summer-reading-chart-2012.html

This idea is a little more involved but looks motivating and fun for kids. This mom puts coupons inside balloons, blows them up and then tapes them to a bulletin board in her house. Each time her child finishes a book, he or she gets to pop and balloon and receives the prize that is on the coupon. Tim would love this one! He loves popping balloons!

https: tinytipsforlibraryfun.blogspot.com/2014/04/summer-prizes-good-bye.html

Scavenger hunt summer reading charts are lots of fun! This chart is set up like a scavenger hunt in which your child would need to complete each reading activity on the chart. This could be easily modified and you could change the activities and complete several reading scavenger hunts throughout the summer.  I like that the activities involve other activities that support reading such as writing, having a parent tell a story, as well as a science experiment and a building activity.

lil-library.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html

This is another take on the scavenger hunt except it involves reading in different places or reading different kinds of books.

www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/free-printable/reading-printables/summer-reading-bingo-printable

This chart is bingo board and encourages kids to read different types of books as well as complete writing or drawing activities that go along with a book that they have read. This can be easily customized for your child.

Tim and I found a chart provided by our local library. To complete this chart, Tim will pledge to read a certain amount of minutes each day.  Each week, we will bring the chart to our local library and Tim will earn a prize provided by the library. Since Tim loves Star Wars, I plan on placing a Star Wars sticker on each square after reading each night. We are going to pledge to read 20 minutes a day to start. Our reading time will consist of me reading aloud to Tim and Tim reading to me as well. We will probably read closer to 30 minutes, but I pledged 20 minutes because I honestly haven’t ever timed our reading time before. Tim is excited about reading with this chart and collecting a surprise each week from the library!

I will keep you posted on how our summer reading chart goes! I hope that one of these summer reading charts help make reading fun and motivating for your child!

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  1. Joanne Eldred

    You and Tim are going to have a lot of fun with your creative reading activities this summer. Great ideas!

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