July 23, 2010

Summer Reading Is Key to Maintaining or Improving Students' Reading Skills

ScienceDaily for July 22, 2010 reported on the importance of summer reading by children.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, faculty members Richard Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen have completed a three-year study showing a significantly higher level of reading achievement in students who received books for summer reading at home. Allington and McGill-Franzen are both professors of education; McGill-Franzen is also director of the Reading Center in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.