Travel Summer Reading Calendar
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One of the highlights of last summer was releasing the Summer Reading Chart with Hadley Designs.
I absolutely LOVED seeing thousands of families download it and use it to make their summer reading a little extra special.
And I was EXTRA delighted to have so many people ask if we were going to do another one this year.
ARE WE EVER!
In fact, if I dare to say so, I think this year’s printable reading chart is even BETTER than last year’s.
It was really important to me that this year’s have some of the same elements as last year, but not be just a weak update.
I wanted it to be a total showstopper.
And, to no one’s surprise, Becca from Hadley Designs surpassed all my wildest dreams.
This year the Reading Chart has the same bubbles for every day of 12 weeks of summer so you can mark off every day that you read during the summer. Like last year, you can decide if that bubble represents a certain number of books per day or a certain amount of time, and you can have it for reading aloud together or a child reading independently.
You can mark off the extra bubbles if your summer isn’t a full 12 weeks long, you can black out the weekends if you only want to track week days, and you can also print versions that have the bubbles divided into 2, 3, or 4 sections if you’d like to have multiple children use one chart (or you can print one for each child).
Like last year, there are 20 reading challenges to make your reading a little more fun.
And this year, it’s themed!
Because so many travel plans have been canceled this year and many families are staying close to home, we wanted the Reading Chart to let you explore from your couch and adventure inside a book.
Becca designed the most gorgeous map that your child can color in and the reading challenges are mostly travel themed, whether you’re ready to time travel with historical fiction, blast into outer space with a non-fiction title or visit a new country with a picture book.
I am IN LOVE with it and I hope it will make your family summer reading even more fun.
And the best news? Like last year, the reading chart is completely free!
Pop in your email address below and a free copy will come right to you inbox! Then you can print it out in whatever size you’d like (I did a 36×48 engineering print that cost me $7. All the instructions for how to print an engineering print here!).
I can’t wait to see your families using it this summer. I hope it makes your summer reading the best it’s ever been!
And if you share it on Instagram, please tag me (@everydayreading) and Becca (@hadleydesigns) so we can see them out in the real world.
Happy summer reading!
Photos by Heather Mildenstein
I love this so much!! Last summer felt SO busy with some travel for work, kids baseball, and trying to potty train my two-year old, so I didn’t grab your awesome chart. Well this summer there will be no travel and no baseball, and while that’s a little sad, I am counting the fact that I can go get this printed off ASAP as a total win. Thanks so much for sharing this, I can’t wait to dive in!
This is so timely! Just yesterday I was looking over our summer reading chart from last year. I’m thrilled to have another reading chart available to use this year!
A question for you, if you are able to answer: what book is pictured in the last photo of Ani with the smaller reading chart? The book appears to be about a puppy and kitten, and the text on the page spread looks like something my child would enjoy reading independently. I’d be so appreciative if you might be able to answer!
Thanks again to you and Becca for teaming up this year on another summer reading chart! So excited to get started!
Oh yay!
It’s called My Pet Wants a Pet by Elise Broach, illustrations by Eric Barclay.
Wonderful! Thank you, Janssen! I just placed a hold for it at our local library. 🙂
Just ordered mine at Staples! Thank you!
This looks so good!! I’ve been eagerly waiting for the release of the chart as I think about what our summer reading will be. We love to travel and this theme is gorgeous. I really appreciate that the bubbles aren’t the main theme of the page and that there is so much beautiful designs. We used the Christmas reading as a colouring sheet as well as as a reading countdown and it was a great addition to our holidays.
Oh we have the cutest book series that fits in the travel theme. Have you ever read the Dodsworth in New York, Paris, London, Rome and Tokyo books?! Author is Tim Egan. They are super funny and we’ve re-read them so many times 😉
Can you print it all on one single 8.5×11 paper?
Yep, absolutely! Just download the file and print it at home.
This looks lovely. I would love to use it for my kids this summer. How do you get it to download as one image rather than 9 separate pages? I keep clicking on the download link but it keeps giving me the link for 8.5 x 11 sheets. Thanks!
Choose the option just below that one on the left-hand side! Send me an email (janssen@everyday-reading.com) if you still have issues.
This is fantastic! Thanks so much. My daughter is 14 but still loves the library summer reading program. Our local library even has an adult summer program. With the library still closed and no sure reopening date she and I can both have fun with this.
This is a really cute chart! Thank you for providing it for free! I am finding the design site, Corjl, a tad confusing…I want to print an 8×11 for each kid but the 1 kid poster says 36×24. Do I just download it at that size and print it as an 8×11? Also the “Incomplete” with an “x,” the “revert to original” etc seem like I’m messing stuff up…I feel like there should be an easier way. 🙂
I’m sorry it’s been tricky! Yes, just download the 1 kid poster and you can print it at whatever size you want.
HI, I did the winter/christmas reading poster in 2019 and my kids loved it. It was so easy to access and it only cost $4 to print out at Staples.
This new format you have with a partnership with a design company, was very difficult. I couldn’t understand how to do it on my own and my husband had to help me print it. I finally got it, but I was wishing it was as simple as the December one….
Hi! Can you tell me what the building is in the Saudi Arabia/Iran area of the map? Thanks!
It’s the Ministry of Interior in Riyadh!
I tried downloading the poster size, but it does not give me the option to, only the 8.5×11 – any ideas?
I can’t get the link for the 8×11 tape together sheets to work for me! 🙁
The link isn’t working for me either. 🙁 Says:
Page Not Found. You’ve arrived on a page that doesn’t exist! We’re sorry about that!
It should be working now! Sorry about that!
I followed the link to print out on 8.5×11 sheets but can’t figure out how to print it…
Is the 2020 Reading Chart still available to print? If so, how do I get the file?
Just pop in your email toward the bottom of the post!
Hi! The email for the travel reading chart comes (yay!) but the link to download cycles (crossing fingers…) and then pops up a bunch of gibberish and says something broke.
I’ve requested it twice with the same result. Any tips that might help? I had zero problems with the 2019 chart and have sent that on to be printed. (Thank you!)