Photograph Credit: Showcase Cinemas

Highlighting 14 summer reading programs in these two weeks, I hope you will find multiple ways to keep your reader learning and exploring this summer. These programs encourage life-long learners with rewards for meeting a goal.

Our summer reading series:

1. Barnes & Noble Imagination’s Destination
2. Chuck E. Cheese
3. Half Price Books Feed Your Brain
4. H-E-Buddy Summer Reading Club
5. H-E-Buddy 321 for Summer Fun Challenge
6. iVillage Summer Reading Challenge
7. Pizza Hut Book It Summer Reading
8. PBK Summer Reading Challenge
9. Public Library Summer Reading Programs
10. Scholastic Summer Challenge
11. Showcase Cinemas Bookworm Wednesdays

Showcase Cinemas Bookworm Wednesdays

Participants

No age specifications given, so this program is great for both big and small children.

Program Length

This program begins on July 10, 2013, and ends on August 7, 2013.

Goal

Encourage children to keep on reading and to explain in writing what they read.

Requirements

Read a book and record the title, author, description, and participant’s name on the Official Book Report Entry Form.

Redemption

Bring the completed Official Book Report Entry Form to a participating Showcase Cinemas on a morning of the movie.

Reward

Submit your Official Book Report Entry Form at a participating Showcase Cinemas for FREE admission into a select 10:00 a.m. movie showing.

The Scheduled Movies – all are rated PG

• July 10: Yogi Bear
• July 17: Ice Age – Continental Drift
• July 24: Madagascar 3
• July 31: The Lorax
• August 7: Hotel Transylvania

Each of these movies begins at 10:00 a.m. on the noted Wednesday morning. For adults and children ages 6 and younger, admission is FREE when accompanied by a Bookworm Wednesdays participant. Each participant can enter each of the five weeks with an official book report.

Showcase Cinemas are located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island. Check your local theater for participation.

The Showcase Cinemas Bookworm Wednesdays program offers children the opportunity to give back to parents. My children would love to know that they treated Mom and their 3-year-old sister to a movie.

Though we do not live near a Showcase Cinema, the book report form is simple and reasonable, even for my rising first grader. If you live in a tiny-town without access to many of these programs, consider using the printable resources to create your own reward program. Happy summer reading!