NEW YORK – April 7, 2023 – Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today released a first look at summer reading data from the eighth edition of its Kids & Family Reading Report™, a national survey of parents’ and children’s reading attitudes and behaviors. The newly released data highlights parents’ and kids’ views on summer reading–a topic that is top of mind for administrators and educators across the country. This new research delves into parents’ understanding of the importance of summer reading and how access to books is limited over the summer due to school recess, while tapping into kids’ interests to offer parents and educators useful tips for summer reading success.
 

To access the summer reading data and learn more about past reports, click here. 
 

Amanda Alexander, Chief Academic Officer at Scholastic, offers insights into this newly released data, and recommendations on how parents and educators can use these findings to increase summer reading habits among the kids in their lives, in a just published op-ed in District Administration, which can be read in full here. 
 

“Literacy skills are paramount for kids to grow both academically and emotionally and the research has shown us, time and time again, that reading over the summer helps students in the following school year,” said Alexander. 

More data from the 8th edition of the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report will be available over the coming months. 

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