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Meagan Gillmore

Tips for Preventing Summer Learning Loss

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, May/June 2018 Issue

By Meagan Gillmore

Summer vacation brings a certain amount of relief and anxiety. Everyone looks forward to the break, but the absence of classes can create the possibility that students will forget what they learned throughout the school year.

Perhaps some learning loss is to be expected, but there are reasonable concerns about how summer vacation may weaken students’ reading and math skills. Teachers can, however, encourage students to continue building those fundamental skills after the final bell of the year rings.

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Meagan Gillmore is a freelance writer in Toronto, ON.

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