Should Children Be Required To Read During The Summer?

Children around the world run wild in the summer, having sleepovers, lounging beside the pool, partying at night. But should they really be doing that? Children have flexible minds, meaning that they learn and retain the information about things and easily lose the information on it. If children read during the summer, even 20 minutes a day, it will keep the information from the previous year stored in their heads. Test scores will improve, it will prevent summer reading loss and improve grammar and academics in general. In some parts of America and the world, children and teens are required to read over the summer, whether it be for a AP class or simply because they have a requirement for school. To keep standards for tests and possibly improve scores for the coming school year, children should read and learn during the summer so that the next school session can become much easier. There are so many people in this world who are illiterate! A study by UNESCO state says that 1 of every 5 people over the age of 15 are illiterate. So if …show more content…
Reading and learning during the summer isn't some fluke, it actually helps. Students experience significant learning loss when there do not participate in summer learning. Research shows that students on average scored lower on standardized tests during the summer than at the end of the school year. Research also shows that lower income students experience greater summer learning loss that their middle income and higher income peers. Low income students experience about 2 months of summer reading loss, while middle income students show slight gains in reading material and experience. Summer reading loss is what they call cumulative, which means the children typically dont catch up in the fall. But even reading 4-6 books during the summer helps prevent summer reading loss