Parent Teacher Magazine Union County Public Schools Sept/Oct 2017 | Page 18

Rocky River Elementary tackles summer slide with “Reading on the Go”
Every summer, schools
she said. “We didn’t have the traffic
across the country grapple with
that we hoped.”
ways to deal with the “summer
So Rocky River Elementary’s
slide” – the months-long span
curriculum staff decided to take the
during the summer when many
books into local communities this
children forget some of what
year by hosting Reading on the Go
they’ve learned during the
events at the largest centrally located
academic year.
neighborhoods surrounding the school.
But Rocky River Elementary
The local communities were excited
School staff thinks they may
to help out, Cathy said, and several
have found a solution.
hundred books were donated by the
On June 20, the school
school’s Parent-Teacher Association.
kicked off Reading on the Go,
Kathy Basternak, who brought