Photograph Credit: Sylvan Book Adventure
Highlighting 14 summer reading programs in these two weeks, I hope you are finding 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:
- Barnes & Noble Imagination’s Destination
- Chuck E. Cheese
- Half Price Books Feed Your Brain
- H-E-Buddy Summer Reading Club
- H-E-Buddy 321 for Summer Fun Challenge
- iVillage Summer Reading Challenge
- Pizza Hut Book It Summer Reading
- PBK Summer Reading Challenge
- Public Library Summer Reading Programs
- Scholastic Summer Challenge
- Showcase Cinemas Bookworm Wednesdays
- Simon Kidgits Club
- Sylvan Book Adventure
Sylvan Book Adventure
Participants
Readers in Kindergarten to Grade 8 who register and are assigned to either a teacher or parent account are eligible. Both parents and students need to register for recording and prize redemption purposes.
Program Length
As this program is on-going, the resources are not limited to this summer.
Goal
Help kids learn to love reading through interactive tools, games, and motivational rewards.
Requirements
Children read books they choose on Book Adventure and take a quiz at Quiz-O-Matic to test their knowledge and comprehension of the story. Each quiz contains either five (grades K-2) or ten (grades 3-8) questions.
Readers earn points toward great prizes based on the number of questions answered correctly. Because children must score at least a 90% (80% for K-2 grade level books) to earn points, they can take a quiz more than once. We record and reward points based on the highest score your child earns on each quiz.
Redemption
When a student has earned enough points for the prize of their choice, they request the prize by clicking on the “I want to get this prize” button located on the prize description page. Once a prize is requested, the child’s parent or teacher will be notified via email so the prize can be approved. Parents and teachers can approve or deny any of these requests.
Once approved, a student can claim their prize by logging in to their Book Adventure account and viewing the prize status page. Depending on the prize, the student will be able to either directly print the prize, or print a prize certificate that must be mailed away to the prize sponsor.
Reward
All prizes are generously provided by Book Adventure’s sponsors. Within the Prize Library, prizes vary by points as well as types of prizes.
The Sylvan Book Adventure program is great for those students who prefer to read online. The tricky part to this program is to monitor students to see that they are reading.
If I had used this program as a student, I would have quickly figured out how to skip the reading, jump to the quiz, figure out the answers, and win points. Of course, I don’t recommend this approach. However, the opportunity is there, and kids will figure it out.
In winding down our summer reading series, I will bring you the last installment tomorrow. Happy summer reading!