{"id":11257,"date":"2015-06-10T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2015-06-09T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T20:37:44","slug":"free-tools-to-help-ohio-families-fight-the-summer-reading-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/free-tools-to-help-ohio-families-fight-the-summer-reading-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tools to help Ohio families fight the \u201csummer reading slide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"summer<\/a>Makena Keller, Oakwood Elementary first grade student, is checking out the INFOhio Beach Bag activities online. A new Ohio\u00a0study shows the ability to read well in elementary school predicts whether a student will graduate from high school. It\u2019s also well-known that kids experience tremendous loss in reading skill over the summer.<\/p>\n

But Ohio parents don\u2019t have to just watch their kids take the \u201csummer slide.\u201d INFOhio, Ohio\u2019s PreK-12 digital library, has just published a set of free, downloadable \u201cBeach Bags\u201d that are already being used by thousands of parents and educators to\u00a0let children in grades K-3 practice reading skills.<\/p>\n

In addition, the first-ever virtual\u00a0Camp INFOhio\u00a0for grades 4-6 contains five days of reading, activities, and experiments exploring science, technology, the arts and math. Kids can try their hand at code breaking, conduct science experiments with items they find in the kitchen, learn about roller coasters before designing their own, and create their own musical instruments.<\/p>\n

The information can be found at www.infohio.org under \u201cWhat\u2019s New\u201d. If you don\u2019t have your school INFOhio username and password, click on \u201clogin\u201d at the top and fill in the information at the left of the screen. If you have any questions, please contact Ellen Williams at Paulding Ex. Village Schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Makena Keller, Oakwood Elementary first grade student, is checking out the INFOhio Beach Bag activities online. A new Ohio\u00a0study shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[382,417,69,3694,3693,3689,3688,156,12,59,119,1185,3691,3690,1052,391,3692],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","tag-camp","tag-county","tag-elementary","tag-ex","tag-infohio","tag-keller","tag-maken","tag-oakwood","tag-ohio","tag-paulding","tag-reading","tag-schools","tag-skills","tag-slide","tag-summer","tag-village","tag-virtual"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t