Summer Activities and Resources to Promote Literacy
Free Printables
The free printable worksheets linked here will make a great packet for kids to work on at home over summer break—or anytime!
Color-Your-Own Summer Bookmarks
Kids will love to color and decorate these summer-themed bookmarks to make reading even more fun!
Summer Baseball Reading and Writing Tracker
Have kids track their summer reading and writing with this baseball-themed tracker—with special stickers! If they make it all the way around the diamond, they’ve scored a home run!
Summer Word Games
See if kids can find all the words in this summer-themed word search. Then, they can use the words to complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet that's sure to boost vocabulary.
Summer Bingo
Kids will love to put a summer spin on this classic game! The Bingo cards are an interactive PDF, so you can type in them before you print them. Or, have kids write in them for extra writing practice.
Summer Acrostic Poem
Acrostic poems are a great way to do some creative writing. What kind of poems can kids create using the letters in SUMMER?
Summer Mad Libs
Who doesn’t love a silly game of Mad Libs? This game will develop kids’ knowledge of parts of speech, too!
Summer Reading Tracker
Here’s a simple tracker for kids to keep track of the books and minutes they read this summer. There’s a column to rate each book from 1-5, too!
Summer Rhyming Words
With this activity, kids develop their phonics skills by matching summer-themed rhyming words.
Summer Writing Prompts
Here’s a great list of writing prompts that will keep kids busy all summer long.
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Splat-o-Nym Vocabulary App
Learning new words has never been so much fun! Download the Splat-o-Nym vocabulary app for the iPad, which keeps kids entertained while boosting their vocabulary. Kids can try a free version of this game or purchase to get the full experience. Note that this app is only available for iPads, not smartphones or other devices.
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