*******************BRAIN DRAIN PHENOMENON!!**************** Have you ever heard of Brain Drain Phenomenon? It has been found that school age children lose on average an entire months worth of learning over the summer vacation. Two of the subjects most commonly loss of information occurred in Spelling and Reading. Studies show that children who read as few as 6 books over the summer vacation, are able to maintain the preceding school years reading level. This study was done with children as young as 6-7 years old up to 14 years old. Do you have a child in elementary school? Barefoot books is a great place to shop for unique, adventurous, educational, culturally diverse, and fun books for your school age child to read over the summer vacation and in turn keep them from this Brain Drain Phenomenon so that they are able to keep their preceding school year reading level and better prepare them for the next school year. Feel free to use this Summer Reading List below to find books that are great for helping keep your childs reading level where it needs to be over the summer vacation. Barefoot Books Summer Skill-Building Reading List Ages 0+ Concepts Big and Small (opposites) US / UK Cleo’s Color Book (colors) US / UK Fast and Slow (opposites) US / UK Octopus Opposites (opposites) US / UK Math and Shapes Bear in a Square US / UK Cleo’s Counting Book US / UK Counting Cockatoos US / UK One Moose, Twenty Mice US / UK Ship Shapes US / UK Alphabet African Animals ABC US / UK Alligator Alphabet US / UK Cleo’s Alphabet Book US / UK Zoe and her Zebra US / UK Summery Science Secret Seahorse (ocean animals) US / UK Ages 3+ Math and Shapes Shape Song Swingalong US / UK We All Went on Safari US / UK Summery Science A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea (food chain) US / UK Island in the Sun (conservation) US / UK Out of the Blue (conservation) US / UK Vocabulary Thesaurus Rex (synonyms) US / UK Ages 5+ Math The Real Princess US / UK Anthologies to Read Together The Barefoot Book of Animal Tales US / UK The Barefoot Book of Buddhist Tales US / UK The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales US / UK The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales US / UK The Barefoot Book of Pirates US / UK The Barefoot Book of Princesses US / UK Indian Tales US / UK Tales from Old Ireland US / UK The Wise Fool US / UK Early Independent Readers: Monster Stories #1: The Feathered Ogre US / UK MS #2: The Mother of Monsters US / UK MS #3: The Abominable Snowman US / UK MS #4: The Terrible Chenoo US / UK MS #5: Rona Long-Teeth US / UK MS #6: Grim, Grunt, and Grizzle-Tail US / UK Check out more of our early independent readers: US / UK Ages 8+ Brush up on the Classics! The Adventures of Odysseus US / UK Demeter and Persephone US / UK Orpheus and Eurydice US / UK Theseus and the Minotaur
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