Summer Reading 2010

All students, from the incoming kindergarteners through eighth graders should be reading over the summer. Everyone knows how much I like to read, and so I’d like to make a plea that you show the importance of reading to your child/children. The goal here is to achieve a quality reading time where the student is focused and actually retaining the information. Let your child explore new genres and set aside some time everyday for reading. Reading over the summer keeps many skills sharpened so that your child is not overwhelmed in the fall when we return to school. We want to promote a LOVE for reading, so please encourage your child to pick reading materials which will spark his/her interests.

In addition to just plain reading for fun, for grades 3-5, students will be required to read a book which will be assigned to everyone. Listed below are the books for each rising 3rd, 4th, and 5th grader. We will all be reading this one same book, and then completing activities, discussing and doing various projects connected with this book during the first few weeks of school in library class. Please have your child finish this book before school begins in August, as we will be completing activities in class based on this book.

Please encourage your child to read this summer. As mentioned earlier, please find books which your student will enjoy. For the younger children, especially incoming kindergarten, you may have to read to your child, and this obviously is OK.

For rising 3rd graders (your child is going into 3rd grade), please have him/her read
"Tornado" by Betsy Byars.

For rising 4th graders (your child is going into 4th grade), please have him/her read
"Frindle" by Andrew Clement.

For rising 5th graders (your child is going into 5th grade), please have him/her read
"Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library!" by Eth Clifford.

All titles should be available at Barnes and Noble and your public library branches. Both sites have access to our school’s summer reading lists and requirements. Listed below is a website that lists suggested reading for various grade levels.

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/library/libraryfactsheet/alalibraryfactsheet23.cfm

Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for your time and cooperation in this very important matter.

Sincerely,
Jill Ramsey

Please click on the link below for the grade your child is entering in the fall to access the teachers’ summer reading assignments:

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Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade
4th Grade Rubric

5th Grade

6th Grade

7th Grade

8th Grade
8th Grade Character Trait Info
8th Grade Character Trait List