Revere Continues Summer Reading Program

Now that the 2010-2011 school year is officially over, students in Local Schools have the opportunity to spend the summer reading... and doing math.

Book suggestions for the district’s second year of the summer reading program are available on each school’s web site. The district is trying to foster interest in continued learning, said assistant superintendent Kathy Bearer, head of the summer reading program -- even though for most students, formal education won’t resume until late August.

“We want them to enjoy different types of literature over the summer,” she said.
Incoming kindergarten through second grade reading lists will be sent home with report cards. The lists for other grades are on each school’s web site. The list does not suggest specific books, but highlights certain areas of study for the next grade level for non-fiction books. The lists also show authors the students’ may want to investigate, like Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain and J.R.R. Tolkien for incoming eighth grade students. Incoming freshman to the high school also receive a copy of “7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” after the Washington D.C. trip, Bearer said.

Each building has its own various ways of honoring students who participate in the program, she said. And when the students come back in the fall, teachers try to integrate some of the material into the classroom.

The optional program was developed with participation of the faculty of each school and the Richfield branch of the Akron-Summit County Public Library, she said. Bearer said this will help get kids interested in reading and using the resources of the local library.

schools do not have a summer reading program, but individual courses may have required reading.

Revere students will still have access to math games through the district web site that they used during the school year, Bearer said. Students will also have access to First In Math, an online mathematics program, through Aug. 1.