2012 Kentucky Summer Reading Program
Readers of all ages will explore the night this summer as libraries across Kentucky present “Dream Big—READ!” during their summer reading program. Children will explore stargazing and moon lore, dreams and wishes, space exploration, nocturnal animals, pajama storytimes, and more. Local public libraries have planned programs to keep children reading and learning all summer. Whether counting the amount of time your children spend reading or the number of books they have read this summer, children who join the summer reading program at their public library keep their brains active and enter school in the fall ready to learn and her ready to succeed.
Kentucky librarians participating in the Dream Big-READ! program can find information from the Collaborative Summer Library Program here: http://www.cslpreads.org/. You must register to use all of the resources on the site.
Complete the Summer Reading Program at your library and earn free baseball game tickets
Kentucky Summer Reading Books and Baseball Tour
2012 Teen Summer Reading Video Challenge
Teens across Kentucky are invited to create a 30 to 90 second video with their unique interpretation of the 2012 teen slogan “Own the Night” in combination with reading and libraries. This is an opportunity for teens to showcase their creativity and have their ideas heard before a national audience. The winning video will be named one of the CSLP 2012 Teen Videos to promote summer reading nationwide.
$275 will be awarded to the creators of the winning state video and their associated public library will receive prizes worth $150 from CSLP and Upstart. Winners will be announced by CSLP in spring 2012. Please see entry form for rules and deadlines.
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and Kentucky Department of Education Collaboration
The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) are collaborating to promote summer reading to Kentucky students by helping librarians accurately choose books based on a child's reading ability. Choosing the right book for a child's reading level can be a challenge, but libraries that participate in the Summer Reading Program can get information and training that makes selecting a book easier with the Lexile Framework for Reading, a new measurement system adopted by KDE in 2010.
The Lexile Framework is a resource for accurately matching readers with text. Lexile measures allow teachers, librarians and parents to find books that will challenge a child's reading ability, while still maintaining interest and learning. A Lexile measure can range from below 200L for beginning readers and beginning-reading text to above 1700L for advanced readers and text. A Lexile text measure is based on two strong predictors of how difficult a book is to comprehend: word frequency and sentence length.
As parents select books for their children to read for the Summer Reading Program, librarians can assist in helping them find appropriate books by looking up a book's Lexile measure. Lexile measure data is available on NoveList as well as the new website, Find a Book Kentucky.