{"id":14150,"date":"2018-06-14T12:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:29:20","slug":"different-kind-summer-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/different-kind-summer-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of Summer Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all about getting my kids to read. But more important to me than how much they read, is that they love reading and they gain something from what they read.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why instead of focusing on how many books, pages or minutes my kids read each day\/week\/month, I instead encourage them to read high-quality books and lots of different kinds of books.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'playfair display', georgia, 'times new roman', serif;\">So I came up with my Summer Reading Challenge that, instead of focusing on how many books or minutes are read, encourages kids to read books in 14\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondmommying.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=92b0b59592d19be13159c809c&amp;id=f36e8d0122&amp;e=e6a3fab679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">different genres<\/a>\u00a0from myths, science fiction and fantasy books to biography, science and poetry.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1-1024x791.png\" alt=\"summer reading challenge\" width=\"806\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1-324x250.png 324w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1-390x301.png 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1-600x464.png 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Slide1.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/532269249706339859\">Pin it for later!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'playfair display', georgia, 'times new roman', serif;\">The options for reading are endless these days and all it takes is a little creative searching to find different types of books that still fall within a child&#8217;s specific interests and sometimes, breaking a child out of their comfort zone helps open up their minds to new ideas and interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And because the goal is to read different types of books, you don&#8217;t need to worry so much about the book they choose being &#8220;grade appropriate,&#8221; instead allow your child to pick books of all different levels from pictures books to young adult novels and let them get lost in a new world.<\/p>\n<p>My Summer Reading Challenge is designed not only to get kids to read different types of books but also to reflect\u00a0on what they&#8217;re writing and offers four different levels of journaling pages.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'playfair display', georgia, 'times new roman', serif;\">The\u00a0Summer Reading Challenge\u00a0Journal also\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'playfair display', georgia, 'times new roman', serif;\">includes two different covers, one for summer and one for using throughout the year.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-journal-1024x739.png\" alt=\"Printable summer reading program and journal that encourages kids to read books in different genres rather than focusing on how much or how long kids read.\" width=\"806\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-journal-1024x739.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-journal-346x250.png 346w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-journal-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-journal-390x282.png 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-journal-600x433.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Get the Summer Reading Challenge Journal:<\/h3>\n<p><em>I will not flood you with emails as soon as you enter your e-mail address and I will never share your information (read our full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/privacy-policy\/\">privacy policy<\/a>).\u00a0<strong>If you\u2019d like to get e-mail updates, you can sign up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/get-in-touch\/newsletter\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Refunds are not available for digital products, however, I do stand behind the quality of my products. If you ever find yourself unsatisfied with your purchase, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/get-in-touch\/\">contact me<\/a>\u00a0so I can properly address your concerns.<\/em><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/js\/gumroad-embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"gumroad-product-embed\" data-gumroad-product-id=\"BMBookGenre\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gumroad.com\/l\/BMBookGenre\">Loading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/532269249706339859\">Pin it!<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/532269249706339859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14153 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-680x1024.png\" alt=\"A different kind of summer Reading Challenge that encourages kids to read books in different genres rather than focusing on how much or how long kids read.\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-680x1024.png 680w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-166x250.png 166w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-390x587.png 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-300x451.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge-600x903.png 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/summer-reading-challenge.png 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all about getting my kids to read. 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That&#8217;s why instead of focusing on how many books, pages or minutes my kids read each day\/week\/month, I instead encourage them to read high-quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,607,284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-printables","category-summer-fun","category-the-home-school-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14482,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions\/14482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}