Summer reading can sustain and enhance students’ literacy skills during the academic break, ensuring sustained reading habits and stamina, and preparation for the upcoming school year. Research shows that without regular reading, students risk losing academic goals - a challenge known as the “summer slide” (Kim)^[1].

Over the Summer Break, students are encouraged to:

• Read a wide variety of genres
• Read books by a diverse range of authors
• Discuss the books they have read with friends and family
• Read for at least 20 minutes per day to maintain reading stamina.

Over the Summer Break, students must:

• For each of their Language options (1), students must read a literary work (2) of fiction of their choosing. This task will prepare students for the first evidence of learning of the next academic year. It will mark the start of their Learner Portfolio, a mandatory requirement for High School Language and Literature courses.
• If students would like to take notes on their chosen work, they may opt to use this scaffold (make a copy).

• (1) For example, if students study Vietnamese or Korean AND English, they will need to read ONE text in Vietnamese or Korean AND one text in English.
• (2) A work is defined for studies in Language and Literature courses as one single literary text, such as a novel, autobiography or biography; two or more shorter literary texts such as novellas; 5-10 short stories; 5-8 essays; 10-15 letters; or a substantial section or the whole of a long poem (at least 600 lines) or 15-20 shorter poems.