New! Summer Fun Tote Bags with Reader's Theater Plays!

Prevent summer learning loss with Playbooks®' new Summer Fun Tote Bags filled with reading goodies and supplemental materials for students to experience during their summer vacation! Almost all students lose some of their educational progress when they are away from their studies for an extended period of time, and disadvantaged students experience the steepest losses in reading achievement.

The U.S. Department of Education has declared that reading aloud is the single most important activity that parents can do with their children to ensure their future success, so getting parents active in their children's summer learning is a necessary goal and crucial to student progress. Reader's Theater is a great way to engage parents in reading with their kids ... they love to ham it up too!  Encourage your students' parents to get involved with their children this summer with our FREE fun take-home activity (see below) which includes a short sample of the Playbook® story, The Ice Cream Dream, that kids, their parents and siblings can all read together. Encourage and reward students to return the form with their parent's initials to school in the fall to help track parent involvement and participation.

Even better, if your budget allows, are our Summer Fun Tote Bags that come ready to go with two bound and durable copies each of two stories which can be shared by up to six people, making it ideal for families and groups. There are different options for these tote bags below to accommodate any budget. Included in the vinyl tote bags is a Parent Guide, a Recommended Reader Assignment Guide, and a Take-Home Parent-Student Activity, along with Award Certificates and cross-curricular Supplemental Activity Sheets which may be filled out and returned to the school in the fall for teacher review.

Three Different Summer Fun Tote Bags Available to Ship Immediately!

Option 1:   Use "Stimulus Funds, Parent Engagement or PTA Funds" to purchase Summer Fun Tote Bags for students to take home, keep and complete over the summer reading the stories many times with family and friends.

Option 2:   Purchase Summer Fun Tote Bags to create a lending library for your school. Students checkout the Fun Bags for the summer and return them in the fall. Then teachers can use them in classrooms all year long! (Teachers simply keep a master copy of the supplemental activity sheets before checking out the bags with books.)

Option 3:   Send flyers home with students so parents can purchase the fun bags for their children and ensure a productive summer. Flyers are accompanied by a Student Activity Sheet that shows a sample of the fun in performing Reader's Theater stories with their families.

Option 4:  Make your own Summer Fun Tote Bags (as shown below) to send home with students for the summer using Playbook® Downloadable Print Stories. See this month's Reader's Theater Exercise below for instructions.

Click here to download parent flyers and the Student Activity Sheet!