| Congratulations!! Your child is on their way to the 2nd grade. The first
grade students have grown to be great readers this year. It is very
important that they practice these reading skills over the summer. Summer
reading will bridge the end of one school year with the beginning of the
next. Here are some tips to get your child reading:
*Keep books in the car for them to read on long trips.
*Get them their own library card.
*Help them select books on topics they find interesting and are at their
level.
*Have a variety of reading material: books on tape, magazines
*Let them see you read!
*Read together.
*Help them choose books from the suggested reading list and check them out
from your local library.
Average Reading:
The Josefina Story Quilt (Coerr)
First Grade Takes a Test (Cohen)
Frog and Toad Series (Lobel)
Make Way for Ducklings (McCloskey)
Anansi, the Spider (McDermott)
Amelia Bedelia books (Parish)
Dumpling Soup (Rattigan)
Nate the Great (Sharmat)
Lizzie Logan, Second Banana (Spinelli)
Commander Toad books (Yolen)
Above Average Reading:
A Day's Work (Bunting)
Emily (Bedard)
Amazing Grace (Hoffman)
Legend of Blue Bonnet (dePoala)
Zelda and Ivy (Kvasnosky)
Henry and Mudge series (Rylant)
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Steig)
A Chair for My Mother (Williams)
Something Special for Me (Williams)
Challenging:
Cam Jansen Series (Adler)
Brothers of the Knight (Allen)
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken and Me (Angelou)
Freckle Juice (Blume)
Julian, Secret Agent (and other books in the series) (Cameron)
Ramona series (Cleary)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl)
The Paper Dragon (Davol)
The Drinking Gourd (Monjo)
Grandfather's Journey (Say)
Poetry:
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You (Ciardi)
The Bug in the Teacher's Coffee (Dakos)
Hippopotamusn't and Other Animal Poems (Louis)
Pizza the Size of the Sun (Prelutsky)
Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic (Silverstein)
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