Open AccessMaking the Shift to Summer Learning: Are We Reaching Everyone?
Author(s) -
Elizabeth McChesney
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.17.4.3
Subject(s) - hum , reading (process) , focus (optics) , psychology , learning to read , mathematics education , visual arts , history , political science , art , art history , performance art , law , physics , optics
Flashback to August 2012: the Children’s Services team at the Chicago Public Library (CPL) was running a successful summer reading program that was humming along across the Windy City. After years of a structure in which children read and reported on either twenty-five picture books or ten chapter books depending on their age and reading level, my team and I decided to conduct some focus groups of children and parents to find out if our program was still meeting needs. Frankly, I assumed we were.