ORLANDO, Fla. – As summer break for students rolls along, there’s something called the “summer slide” that can happen, causing students to lose some of what they’ve learned in school.
Only about 52% of parents are aware of the retention loss, which can range from one month to two years of instructional and literacy loss among students in elementary and middle school.
On Breakfast With Bridgett, Dr. Miriam Ortiz, a local literacy scholar with BeyondTheResearch.com, talked about ways to prevent the summer slide.
“The key is to make learning fun, make practicing reading fun. You don’t want to make it a daunting task or tell your kids, ‘Hey you have to read now.’ Building incentives, find books that they love to read. You can create games with vocabulary words, even creating bingo out of a piece of paper practicing that, asking them questions while they read and having a discussion, not just building fluency and accuracy but also comprehension as well,” Ortiz said.
Ortiz also noted online resources like PBS Kids Learning, Epic and many free library resource apps to help support students’ retention.
Watch the full interview at the top of this story.
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