Summer reading challenges have come on my radar for the first time - but they seem to be rather narrowly focused, to the point of being counterproductive. The ones I have seen are themed around the environment or diversity (obviously great to have either as incidental to the plot but to have them as a theme just seems to defeat the object of normalising care for the environment or inclusion).
Surely this defeats the purpose of getting children to read more widely, especially where their families don't have the budget to buy six specific new books? Couldn't schemes/schools just say 'have a certificate for reading x number of books over the summer, here's a list of suggestions of new and classic books for each age group'?
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Narrow focus of summer reading challenges
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Legomania · 27/07/2021 17:04
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