A common concern among teachers and parents is the detrimental effects of summer reading setback, which cumulatively contributes to the widening achievement gap between children from more and less economically advantaged backgrounds. As a means to mitigate summer reading loss, the Pacific Literacy Consortium’s Mohala I Ke Ao project (MIKA) disseminated summer reading book bags to over 3,000 kindergarten through Grade-3 students in 12 project sites. The book bags, delivered to schools in May 2019, contained four age-appropriate books as well as literacy-focused parent-engagement information on topics such as accessing the Hawaii Department of Education’s (HIDOE) online Shared eBook Collection (http://hidoe.overdrive.com) and fostering a culture of reading in the home. The HIDOE’s online Shared eBook Collection provides a way for parents and children to search and borrow popular ebooks and audiobooks of various genres customized to students’ interests and reading levels. This cross-agency initiative is designed to turn summer loss into summer gain.
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