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Keep your students reading over winter break with this engaging and flexible Winter Break Reading Challenge. Designed for elementary students, this at-home reading program uses choice boards and creative literacy tasks to encourage daily reading, build comprehension skills, and foster a lifelong love of books—even during vacation.
Keep your students reading over winter break with this engaging and flexible Winter Break Reading Challenge. Designed for elementary students, this at-home reading program uses choice boards and creative literacy tasks to encourage daily reading, build comprehension skills, and foster a lifelong love of books—even during vacation.
Whether your break is short or long, this resource includes multiple calendar options, student-friendly activities, and celebration materials to motivate and reward participation. Perfect for sending home before winter break, this challenge promotes independence while keeping students connected to meaningful literacy practice.
What’s Included:
This winter break choice board is an easy-to-use, low-prep solution for teachers looking to keep literacy skills strong over the holidays—while giving students the freedom to choose how and what they read.
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Tiffany S. –
My students had a great time using this resource!!
Carlos H. –
This has been a wonderful resource for my elementary library! The activities are engaging, well organized, and easy to adapt for different grade levels. I especially appreciated the variety of lessons covering classroom library skills, fiction vs. nonfiction, and the ready-to-use sub plans. They saved me a great deal of preparation time while keeping my students actively involved.
If you’re a school librarian or elementary teacher looking for meaningful, low-prep library activities, this resource is an excellent addition to your collection. Highly recommended!
Tanya R. –
A great resource for students who want extra work on winter break.
Melinda W. –
This winter break reading program was perfect for keeping students motivated at home! The choice-based activities made reading fun and independent, and it was easy to implement for a stress-free holiday learning challenge.
dixiestix –
It offered differentiated forms, so you could choose what worked best for you.
Christine R. –
I love this resource and have used it for several years!! Is there an update for 2024? I would love to use it again. 🙂
Catherine –
Hello! This resource is updated each December. Please redownload for the FREE update!
Kelly D. –
My students enjoyed these fun activities during winter break to prevent learning loss.
Jennifer Y. –
I loved that this resource offered an editable option so I could title it Christmas or Semester Break since our Winter break is not until February.
This year my class is part of the Growing Readers grant and this challenged my students to stay on target with reading at least some days, but with a fun little twist.
Teaching with Aris –
My students loved using this for our winter break activities! Thank you for creating such a great challenge for our kids to keep busy with! 🙂
Jessica K. –
This was a fantastic resource to use in my classroom!
Jennifer K. –
Simple, doable and engaging. Easy to prep and send home on winter break.
Theresa M. –
This was great to send to students on snow days to keep the students learning and engaged while at home.
Stephanie S. –
I utilized this resource over Winter Break. My students loved it. It was an easy thing to add to enrichment, with fun activities to do over the break. I bought, downloaded, printed and sent! That EASY!!!
Stephanie H. –
I sent this home as an option for students last break. I loved being able to provide something for the families that wanted something but not have it be a requirement. This was a perfect balance, and I definitely plan to use it next year!
Lindsey H. –
This was a fun way to encourage students to read over winter break. Will use again.
Shannon C. –
This was a great activity for my students when home on break.