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REQUIRED SUMMER READING TITLES Grade 1 Biscuit Goes to School by Alyssa Satin Capucilli Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn Grade 2 Amelia Bedelia's Family Album by Peggy Parish Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin by C. Rylant Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Grade 3 The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman - Or ANY title from the school reading list Grade 4 Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen Grade 5 Abel's Island by William Steig Dear Levi by Elvira Woodruff Bobby Baseball by Robert Kimmel Smith Grade 6 From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Dirt Bike Racer by Matt Christopher The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder Grade 7 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawles The Cay by Theodore Taylor The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry Grade 8 The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt The Pigman by Paul Zindel A Place To Hide by Jayne Pettit True Stories of the Second World War by Paul Dowswell ===================================================================== FOLLOWING ARE SOME POSSIBLE LEARNING ACTIVITIES YOUR CHILD MIGHT TRY: SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES 1. Make a cartoon strip showing sequence . . . what happened first, second, . . . 2. Make a list of 5 questions you would like to ask the author. 3. Write a different ending for the story (or a prequel or sequel). 4. Design a book cover complete with blurbs about why you like the book or recommend it. 5. Make up a TEST on this book for your classmates. 6. Make a poster depicting your favorite part of the book. 7. Make a postcard showing the setting of the book. 8. For chapter books, make up headings/titles for each chapter (good for naming the main idea). 9. Make a windsock . . . a strip each for: title, author, illustrator, setting, characters, theme, etc. 10. Write a book review for the newspaper. Look at the Sunday news- Book section with your child. Then have him/her write a review, complete with one * to five ***** as a rating. 11. Design a t-shirt depicting a character or event from the book. 12. Make a tape of your child reading the book aloud. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ GOOD WEB SITES www.bookadventure.com This site contains lists, quizzes, and activities for grades K-8. www.randomhouse.com/kids/games/ This site features book reviews, newsletters, activities and contests for all levels. www.dltk-teach.com/books/ This is a good site for crafts and coloring activities for primary grades. www.scholastic.com/titles/index.htm Scholastic presents many of their books as well as famous authors. Dear Parent, We are happy to be sending you a booklet of suggested reading titles. Also, at the end of the lists you will find some activities and web sites which complement the summer reading. Please help your child choose books to read over the summer months. These would be in addition to required titles named by the teachers for each grade. Consider interest, reading level, easy/difficult, and length when selecting a book with your child. You know your child best and you may find that summertime is a good time to encourage your son/daughter to try something a little more challenging than he/she might be able to tackle during the school year. On the other hand, we are trying to encourage an appreciation and joy of reading, so we would not want it to be frustrating. If your child would like to try a more difficult book, you might read it with him/her �C take turns reading pages or chapters to one another. Many of the books selected for our Recommended Lists are award winners. Other titles were chosen because of high interest level, relationship with the curriculum, or may be a teacher preference. We think each of these books, if chosen according to appropriateness, will help your child become a better reader and to develop an appreciation of quality literature. Please note that in addition to the titles on these lists, other books by the same author are usually good choices. Obviously, the numbers of excellent books are too many to list in this publication, however this should provide you with some ��good ones��. You may also find more good lists on the web sites that are cited on the last page. Of course we respect parent choices as well. Thank you for being our partner in this learning experience. Reading can be a most worthwhile pastime and a rewarding one as well, especially when you help make it a summer priority. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES �� Make a cartoon strip showing sequence �C what happened first, second, . . . �� Make a list of 5 questions you would like to ask the author. �� Write a different ending for the story (or a prequel or sequel). �� Design a book cover complete with blurbs about why you like the book or recommend it. �� Make up a ��test�� on this book for your classmates. �� Make a poster depicting your favorite part of the book. �� Make a postcard showing the setting of the book. �� For chapter books, make up headings/titles for each chapter (good for naming the main idea). �� Make a windsock . . . a strip each for: title, author, illustrator, setting, characters, theme, etc. �� Write a book review for the newspaper. Look at the Sunday news- Book section with your child. Then have him/her write a review, complete with one * to five ***** as a rating. �� Design a t-shirt depicting a character or event from the book. �� Make a tape of your child reading the book aloud. GOOD WEB SITES www.bookadventure.com This site contains lists, quizzes, and activities for grades K-8. www.randomhouse.com/kids/games/ This site features book reviews, newsletters, activities and contests for all levels. www.dltk-teach.com/books/ This is a good site for crafts and coloring activities for primary grades. www.scholastic.com/titles/index.htm Scholastic presents many of their books as well as famous authors. PRIMARY GRADES READING LIST Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Judith Viorst Animals, Animals Eric Carle The Art Lesson Tomie DePaola Caps for Sale Esphyr Slobodkina Clifford the Big Red Dog (series) Norman Bridwell Corduroy (series) Don Freeman Curious George (series) H.A. Rey The Day Jimmy��s Boa Ate the Wash Noble and Kellogg Fables Arnold Lobel Frances the Badger (series) Russell Hoban Frog and Toad (series) Arnold Lobel George and Martha (series) James Marshall Goodnight, Gorilla Peggy Rathmann Hop on Pop (and others) Dr. Seuss A House is A House For Me Hoberman The House at Pooh Corner A.A. Milne If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff Kitten��s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes Little Bear (series) Else Holmelund Minarik Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Bernard Waber Madeline (series) Ludwig Bemelmans The Magic Fish Littledale Maisie Goes Swimming Cousins The Magic School Bus (assorted titles) Cole Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey Mike Mulligan Virginia Lee Burton Millions of Cats Wanda Gag Officer Buckle and Gloria Peggy Rathmann Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown The Snowy Day (and others) Ezra Jack Keats Stone Soup Marcia Brown The Story About Ping Marjorie Flack Swimmy Leo Leonni Sylvester and the Magic Pebble William Steig The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Simms Taback Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak INTERMEDIATE GRADES READING LIST And Now, Miguel Krumgold And Then What Happened, Paul Revere Jean Fritz (and other titles) The Beast in Mrs. Rooney��sRoom (series) Patricia Reilly Giff Ben and Me Lawson The Black Cauldron (and others) Lloyd Alexander Boxcar Children (series) Warner Bunnicula (series) James Howe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Charlotte��s Web E.B. White The Chocolate Touch Catling The Courage of Sarah Noble Dalgliesh Cricket in Times Square George Seldon The Death of Lincoln Hayman Doctor Doolittle (series) Lofting Encyclopedia Brown (series) Sobol The Enormous Egg Butterworth Exploring the Titanic Ballard The Family Under the Bridge Carlson Fourth Grade Celebrity Patricia Reilly Giff Freckle Juice Judy Blume The Great Brain John Fitzgerald Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh How to Eat Fried Worms Sockwell Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Little House on the Prairie (series) Ingalls-Wilder Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart Lauber Mrs. Frsiby and the Rats of NIMH O��Brien Misty of Chincoteague Henry Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary Nate the Great Sharmat Old Yeller Gipson The Story of My Life Helen Keller The Wind in the Willows Graham Witches Roald Dahl The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Russell Freedman JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Always to Remember: The Story of the Vietnam Memorial Ashabranner Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman Gaines The Call of the Wild Jack London The Cats in Krasinski Square Karen Hesse A Day No Pigs Would Die Robert Peck The Devil��s Arithmetic Jane Yolen Eleanor Roosevelt: Life Russell Freedman Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov Hatchet Gary Paulsen The Hobbit Tolkien I Heard the Owl Call My Name Craven The Incredible Journey Burnford Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Lillies of the Field Barrett Little Women Louisa May Alcott The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury The Miracle Worker Gibson My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George Onion John Krumgold Out of the Dust Karen Hesse The People Could Fly Virginia Hamilton Rifles For Watie Keith Robinson Crusoe DeFoe Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor Sarah Bishop Scott O��Dell Slave Dancer Fox To Be A Slave Lester True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Westing Game Raskin When the Legends Die Borland Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck The Yearling Rawlings

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