Spark summer reading adventures!
Transport readers to new worlds, fuel creativity, and make every page an adventure.
Novel Effect Summer Reading Plans bring readers together around captivating stories.
immersive soundscapes • engaging activities • transforming readers
Engage Readers All Summer Long
Novel Effect is an award-winning app that revolutionizes routine reading with interactive soundscapes. As you read aloud your favorite books, Novel Effect responds to your voice with music, sound effects, and character voices.
Ensure that learners maintain reading momentum and retain key literacy skills over the summer with engaging, high-impact read-alouds. Students and their families choose from any Novel Effect-compatible book or in-app ebooks to reinforce learning, build comprehension, and foster a love of reading.
With simple, interactive tools, families can seamlessly support reading through the summer while students strengthen vocabulary and critical thinking. They’ll be set for a strong start to the new school year.
Unlock a Summer of Success
Prevent learning loss and strengthen reading skills
With Novel Effect, your summer reading program goes beyond traditional reading programs by turning books into interactive experiences that keep learners reading and learning all summer long. Our customized School, District, and Public Library Plans help families support literacy at home while readers build vocabulary, comprehension, and analytical skills.
Novel Effect elevates your existing summer reading initiatives and ensure learners return to school prepared, confident, and excited to learn—minimizing the summer slide and maximizing literacy growth.
PICK THE PLAN THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU
SCHOOLS
Provide students and families with the tools they need to maintain the momentum of learning.
DISTRICTS
Foster home-school connections that builds reading engagement and supports literacy learning.
LIBRARIES
Ignite a love of reading and build bonds between grownups and budding bookworms.
easy to use tools to enrich summer learning
Fuel curiosity, creativity, and a love of reading
Novel Effect is proud to partner with you in skipping the summer slide and supporting summer reading.
- Our summer reading themes align with the Collaborative Summer Library Program!
- Read aloud any of the books with our custom-designed soundscapes.
- Look for the pencil icon on any book cover to download our educator-created activities, and give readers a back-to-school boost!
- Share our summer reading tracker with families to make reading together and adventure!
- Most importantly, have fun reading!
Whether through summer school sessions with teachers and librarians or cozy family read-alouds, Novel Effect keeps readers engaged all summer long. They’ll be excited and ready to dive into more reading from the very first day of the new school year!
How to Use:
- Download and print your Summer Reading Student Tracking Sheets!
- Help your child track their reading progress creating a color palette or building a tesselation each time you read together with Novel Effect!
- Show us your progress! Post photos of your map progress on social media and tag them with #NovelEffect. We’ll be re-sharing photos and videos all month long!
help readers stay motivated and build confidence
Make reading magical this summer
Looking for ways to keep students engaged all summer long? Our team of literacy experts has compiled their top strategies to prevent the summer slide and inspire a love of reading that lasts!
The award-winning Novel Effect app transforms storytime into an interactive, immersive experience with perfectly timed music, sound effects, and character voices that bring books to life. Simply read aloud from real books you already love, and Novel Effect seamlessly enhances the experience in real time. By making reading more engaging and enjoyable, the app motivates children to read more often, reinforcing key literacy skills and helping them stay on track throughout summer break.
Step into an unforgettable summer!
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Try Novel Effect soundscapes long as you like for free. Unlock unlimited Premium access with an individual plan.
Share the magic all summer long with flexible pricing to fit libraries, schools, and districts of all sizes and plans that include access for students and families at home.
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