Summer Reading Skills Programs

Summer Reading Skills Programs include reading and skill-building activities that cover letter recognition, beginning phonics, and easy sight words. Students work on phonics and sight words, comprehension skills, solid phonics and word-attack skills, reading fluency, long-word decoding skills, and vocabulary expansion. The program also includes reading fiction, nonfiction, and textbooks, along with note taking, study skills, textbook strategies, and study strategies.

• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Students meet weekly with an instructor.

Instructors from the Institute of Reading Development provide all the support in these programs. The College of Professional & Global Education partners with the Institute of Reading Development to offer Summer Reading Skills Programs for students from kindergarten through high school. Each grade-level program focuses on specific reading skills needed for that grade level, with separate programs for 4-year-olds and entering kindergartners, entering 1st graders, entering 2nd graders, entering 3rd graders, entering 4th and 5th graders as single-grade programs, entering 6th, 7th and 8th graders as single-grade programs, entering 9th and 10th graders as single-grade programs, and entering 11th, 12th and college freshmen. Students meet weekly with an instructor and complete activities between classes, and enrollment is limited with early registration recommended. In the programs for entering 9th and 10th graders and for entering 11th, 12th and college freshmen, students can double reading speed.

Last updated June 19, 2026.