Summer Literacy Programs
Summer Literacy Programs
The United Way Summer Education Program Convening Group is a network of summer education providers and housing complexes working together to provide enriching educational activities for children in the Sacramento area. As part of the larger Campaign for Grade Level Reading and the new Square One Project, the members of the Summer Education Program Convening Group work to prevent the summer slide so that kids are ready to start school the next year and stay on track to graduate.
The group meets monthly throughout the school year. If you are part of an organization that provides summer education, or are part of an organization that would like to provide summer education, please contact 916-368-3000. Together, we can eliminate summer learning loss in the Sacramento region.
Summer Literacy Program was a success
See survey results from the 2017 program
For our pilot summer literacy program, we partnered with Kids First Now, CHOC Housing, and Amador Tuolumne Community Action Agency (ATCAA) with locations across Yolo, Sacramento, Amador, and Placerville counties to conduct summer enrichment programming. Our literacy program coordinators provided training to these agencies with enriching educational activities in literacy, art, and STEAM for teen volunteers and staff to combat summer slide with their youth participants.
Help a child soar during the summer
Teen and adult volunteers needed to combat summer slide
Summer brings long, fun days of no school and lots of running, jumping, singing and playing for young children. For low-income children, if they don’t get academic enrichment activities during the summer, they begin to forget what they learned during the school year. This is called summer slide. Low-income children who experience summer slide begin the next school year behind their peers. Instead of starting the new school year learning new lessons, they have to review what they learned the year before. This cycle tends to repeat itself and these children become very academically disadvantaged.
Summer in a Box combats the “Summer Slide”
We're ensuring children are reading at grade-level
Summer can be a challenging time for families to provide their children with learning opportunities and many students fall behind when they return to school the following year. This summer, United Way partnered with Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency to battle the ”summer slide” with over 500 kids in the Sacramento region.