For students, an ideal summer is made up of hanging out by the pool, trips to the beach, video games, shopping at the mall and most importantly, absolutely no school! While we highly recommend students spending at least some of their summer maintaining skills or preparing for the new school year with summer classes there is also another way to make sure you are not falling behind over the summer: summer reading.

1. 6Reasons to
spend your
summer reading

2. For students, summer is an
ideal time to hang out by the
pool, go to the beach, play
video and most importantly
There is no school!

3. We highly recommend:
× Spending some of your time maintaining your
skills
× With private tutoring
× Or summer courses
There is yet another way to make sure you are not
falling behind over the summer.

4. Summer Reading!

5. So WHy bother
reading over the
summer?
Summer is the time for relaxing, not reading.

6. Wait,
Hear me out!
You might reconsider allocating
some of your time to some summer
reading.

7. #1

8. Think about it
You have just dedicated 9 months of your life
to learning.

9. All Thoseall-nighters
Never-endingtests
Last Minuteessays

10. One of the Best Reasons
for Summer Reading
Is to ensure that all of your hard work is not lost
to summer learning loss.

11. Studies show that,
Over the Summer “The average
learning Loss in math and
reading for American
Students Amounts to
One Month per year.”
-New York times

12. Reading Keeps your Mind aCtive.
× Spending lazy summer days by the pool
sounds ideal,
× but you are not doing yourself any favors.
Summer reading is a way to keep learning over
the summer and avoid losing some of your hard-
earned education

13. You Can even Read by the pool!

14. #2

15. Vocabulary is one
of the biggest
challenges
For students who struggle with reading comprehension.

16. Most of the
texts
You will read in the school year will
contain advanced vocabulary.

17. reading
Exposes you to brand new words that will
help you in the upcoming school year.

18. Futurereading
Upcomingtests
Betteressays

19. You will have a larger
vocabulary arsenal
When it is time to take ACT or SAT tests.

20. Additionally,
You learn how to use context
clues to determine The
Definition Of A New Word.
Which is a Crucial skill
Come Test Taking Time.

21. #3

22. The ABility to analyze
× Is to find the deeper meaning.
× This is a necessary skill for your high school
days and beyond.

23. Practice Makes Perfect

24. The More time you
take to read
The more naturally analysis will come to you when it is time to
analyze those pesky classics during the school year

25. It also Plays an
Important Role
In your everyday life.

26. 93% of Communication
Is nonverbal - body language and the tone in
one’s voice.
- Philip Yaffe

27. What a person does facially,
physically, and the
inflection
In their voice is far more telling than what they
actually say.

28. We need to be able
To ANalyze In order to
determine The Deeper Meaning
Behind The Actions of
others and
WHat is being said.

29. Worklife
Personallife
Schoollife
Will all benefit from analysis skills learned through reading.

30. #4

31. “Read, Read, Read.
Read everything...just like a carpenter who works
as an apprentice and studies the master.”
× William Faulkner

32. Writers need to Read

33. Why?
Because that is how they learn to write!

34. Struggling with
writing description?
Read a writer who is a master of
description.

35. Check out this example of
excellent descriptive writing:
“Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains
and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and
dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp
and far-off hills...The whitewashed brick plantation house
seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling,
curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the
moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into
surf.”
Margaret Mitchell in Gone with the Wind

36. Writing an Argument
a challenge?
Find a well-argued essay or speech.

37. Check out this example of an
argument:
“We have waited for more than three hundred and forty
years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The
nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed
toward the goal of political independence, and we still
creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a
cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for
those who have never felt the stinging darts of
segregation to say "wait." But when you have seen
vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and
drown your sisters and brothers at whim... then you will
understand why we find it difficult to wait.”
Martin Luther King Jr in Letter from Birmingham Jail

38. Taking in
Excellent Writing
Will Most Definitely Improve
Yours.

39. #5

40. What can be irritating in the school year
Is being forced to read books you may or may not
enjoy.

41. Not with Summer reading though

42. Reading over
the summer
Means you get to read whatever you want!

43. #6

44. Relaxing...
That is what summer is all about!

45. Isn’t Reading The Opposite?

46. Guess WHat?
Research shows that “reading is the
best way to relax and even six
minutes can be enough to reduce
stress levels more than two-thirds.”

47. WHile school
Reading Can be stressful,
Summer Reading certainly
is not.

48. So crack open a
book - Why not at
the beach?

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