Parents and families –
Encourage and promote reading in your home.  Find time to go to the library or local bookstore. 

Express interest in reading … have books around your house…. read along with or to your child.  Celebrate reading accomplishments in your family.. find a special treat for your child when he completes the 5 book challenge.

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Register TODAY for the Houston Public Librarys Summer Reading Program 2009

What is Summer Reading Program?

The SRP is a free incentice program encouraging children and teens to read more. It includes many diverse free educational and fun programs including entertainers, storytimes, science activities, crafts and other fun programming for kids and teens up to 18 years of age. 

The Millionaire Club is a coordinated effort by the Department of Library Services, the Literacy Leads the Way initiative and the Reading Department to keep HISD students reading over the summer months. If all students read five books this summer… HISD students will have read 1 million books!!

Besides becoming better readers, students develop a love for reading, and the entire family can benefit by making reading a family activity.  Reading over the summer is the best way to make sure that students enter school in the fall with reading skills at or above the level they were at before leaving for summer break.  Students who can least afford to risk the gains made during the school year in the area of reading suffer the most from summer reading loss.

Each campus will complete a Summer Reading Campus Commitment form.  In order to receive rewards and prizes in the fall, each campus must turn in this completed form, describing the campus plan for demonstrating and confirming that summer reading was accomplished by their students.

Students should select and read a minimum of 5 books over the summer months.  They will fill out the Reading Log which they will have received in May 2009.  In the fall, they will return the log in order to be eligible to receive prizes for participating in the Millionaire Club.