Summer Resources
Inspire Reading All Summer Long!
Minimize the Summer Slide with PebbleGo and Capstone Interactive eBooks
Your learners have made so much progress over the school year, it shouldn’t stop now! You have everything you need to encourage their love of learning over the summer months too.
Thanks to your access to Capstone Connect, PebbleGo, or Capstone Interactive you already have thousands of articles and eBooks accessible from any internet-enabled device. And best of all, they’re easy to navigate and super fun to read!
Check out the resources below for inspiration on how to get the most from your tools. We hope they inspire a conversation between you and your student that makes learning fun whether they are learning in a summer program or at home!
Extra Summer Resources
Guided Activities
These simple, ready-to-use activities help learners get hands-on and demonstrate their new-found knowledge
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Video Tutorials
Check out these videos and watch these tools in action!
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Letters Home
With an internet-enabled device and these letters, families can get introduced to the content they need (Available in English and Spanish)
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Customizable Bookmarks
Customize these bookmarks to include login details. Everyone at school has the same login credentials – easy peasy!
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Summer Calendars
Find special days to celebrate with your learner!
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Shannon Miller's Choice Boards
Enjoy an adventurous summer with 12 weeks of choice boards full of free activities around reading, learning, creating, coding, science, moving, technology and more, from Shannon McClintock Miller!
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Summer Reading Log
Get to Know Your Tools
You have a ton of new content at your fingertips! Here’s an introduction to what’s included with Capstone Connect:
PebbleGo
This is where you find all the articles for K-2 learners. Choose from 5 subject areas covering Animals, Health, Science, Social Studies, and Biographies to help guide your students' exploration. Your students are all set for simple, safe, and fun research that will develop a lifelong thirst for knowledge. All articles feature authentic read-aloud audio that your learner can navigate independently. Also available in Spanish!
Capstone Interactive
This is where you’ll find your eBooks – lots of them! Every book features read-aloud audio from professional voice-over artists (not robotic text-to-speech). There are stories for pre-readers, struggling readers, English language learners, and more.
PebbleGo Next
Just like PebbleGo, but for grades 3-5. The 5 subject areas are Social Studies, Biographies, American Indian History, US States and Science. English only.
Capstone Connect
Connect ties it all together! Connect makes it easy to find content that’s the appropriate reading level for your learner. It can even show you what topics your child learned last year, and what’s coming up in the year ahead so you can make your summer learning as relevant to curriculum standards as you choose. Connect is especially useful for educators because it features detailed lesson plans called ‘Activity Bundles’, but families can use it too. Learn More About Capstone Connect
Example
Here's just one way you can use all these tools together to foster learning for one main topic:
Learning About Communities
For grades K-2, check out the PebbleGo article In My Neighborhood, in the Social Studies module.
For grades 3-5, check out the articles in the "About the Community" section of the Social Studies module.
Explore further with the interactive eBook, Places in My Neighborhood.
Download and print out this hands on activity where students are encouraged to Create a Community Postcard.
Dive deeper with the activity bundle, Our Community: Neighborhood Places, Cities and Rural Places, Grocery Stores, Libraries, Community Centers, which is full of customizable, standards aligned, theme-based activity plans and projects.
For more information, please contact your Capstone representative
REP@capstonepub.com