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Summer Reading List

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The Recommended Summer Reading List For Middle School/La lista de libros recomendados para estudiantes de la escuela medio durante el verano

Summer Reading For Rising First Grade	Summer Reading For Rising Second Graders	Summer Reading For Rising Third Graders	Summer Reading For Rising Fourth Graders	Summer Reading For Rising Fifth Graders
Appelt, Bat Jamboree Arnold, Green Wilma Bridwell, Clifford, The Big Red Dog Carlstrom, Jesse Bear, What WillYou Wear?      Conrad, The Tub People Crews, Shortcut Curtis, When I Was Little Derolf, The Crayon Box That Talked Dyer, Animal Crackers Elhert, Feathers for Lunch Emberley, Go Away Big Green Monster! Firth, I’ll Teach My Dog One      Hundred Words Galdone, What’s in a Fox’s Sack? Hest, In The Rain With Baby Duck Lionni, Fish is Fish Lobel, Frog and Toad Are   Friends London, Froggy Gets Dressed London, Froggy Learns to Swim McMillan, Puffins Climb,      Penguins Rhyme Morley, Farmyard Song Pfister, The Rainbow Fish Piper, The Little Engine That      Could Rathmann, Officer Buckle and    Gloria Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo Seuss, I Can Read With My EyesShut Seuss, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Seuss, The Cat in the Hat Seuss, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red  Fish, Blue Fish Waddell, Owl Babies Walsh, Mouse Paint   Series and Authors Bridwell, Clifford Series Brown, Arthur Chapter Books Eric Carle Books Lobel, Frog and Toad Books	Arnold       No Jumping on the Bed Brown        Flat Stanley Burton       The Little House Cannon    Stellaluna Curtis         When I Was Little Cuyler       That’s Good! That’s Bad! DePaola   The Art Lesson DePaola   Charlie Needs a Cloak Henkes      Chrysanthemum Henkes  Owen Hutchins     The Doorbell Rang Krensky    My Teacher’s Secret Life LeSieg  Ten Apples Up On Top Long,   How I Became a Pirate Pirates Don’t ChangeDiapers McKissack    Flossie and the Fox Munsch    Love You Forever Munsch   Stephanie’s Ponytail Numeroff  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie            If You Give a Moose a     Muffin        If You Give a Pig a Pancake Pfister  The Rainbow Fish Pilkey The Hallo-Weiner    The Paperboy Rathmann  Officer Buckle andGloria Wood The Napping House     Series Adler,  Cam Jansen (Series) Berenstein Berenstein Bears (Series) London  Froggy (Series) Osborne      Magic Tree House   (Series) Parish      Amelia Bedelia (Series) Rey   Curious George (Series) Rylant  Poppleton (Series)  Henry and Mudge          (Series) Shannon     No, David Sharmat      Nate the Great (Series)	Atwater Mr. Popper’s Penguins Burton Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Cannon Stellaluna Carle The Very Lonely Firefly Clements Counting on Frank Cowan My Life with the Wave Duffey Boy in the Doghouse Duffey How to Be Cool in the Third Grade Erdrich Birchbark House Emberley The Three Cool Kids Hoban Arthur Series Hoffman Amazing Grace Hong Two of Everything Kellogg Pecos Bill Kilborne Peach and Blue Kimmel Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock Anansi and the Talking Melon Laden The Night I Followed the Dog Lester Me First Lord The Giant Jam Sandwich Mosel Tikki Tikki Tembo Munsch Stephanie’s Ponytail Ringgold Tar Beach Shulevitz Snow Stanley Rumplestiltskin’s Daughter Van Allsburg Two Bad Ants Williams A Chair for My Mother Winter Follow the Drinking Gourd White Stuart Little Trumpet of the Swan Wolff The Toll Bridge Troll Woodson Show Way Series Adler Cam Jansen (Series) Cleary Ramona the Pest (Series) Conford Jenny Archer (Series) Osborne Magic Treehouse (Series) Park Junie B. Jones (Series) Sobol Encyclopedia Brown (Series) Warner Boxcar Children (Series)	Allard   Miss Nelson is Missing Bledsoe Big Bike Race Blume  Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing   Bunting Dandelions                     The Nasty Stinky Sneakers Burch    Ida Early Comes Over theMountain Cohen Molly’s Pilgrim Dakos  If You’re Not Here RaiseYour Hand Harris Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Henry Misty of Chincoteague Hesse Sable Hoffman  Amazing Grace Howe   Bunnicula King-Smith  Babe the Gallant Pig Marzollo  Soccer Sam McCloskey  Homer Price McKenna    Good Grief, Third Grade Mills    The Rag Coat Parks  Skinnybones Sachar Sideways Stories from  Wayside School San Souci   The Faithful Friend  Sukey and the Mermaid Sciezka  Math Curse Spinelli Tooter Pepperday Steig  Abel’s Island Steptoe Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters Tews The Gingerbread Doll Watson Butterfly Seeds Series American Girl Series  Beverly Cleary Series Dadey        Bailey School Kids (Series) Danziger   Amber Brown Series Osborne    Magic Treehouse Series Willder  Little House Series Warner  Boxcar Children Series	Avi   PoppyThe Barn Babbitt     Search for Delicious Banks   Indian in the Cupboard                  Return of the Indian in     The Cupboard                 Secret of the Indian Bunting    The Nasty Stinky Sneakers Cleary  Ramona Forever Clifford   Help! I’m a Prisoner in theLibrary Dahl   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dakos     Don’t Read this Book Whatever You Do! George  My Side of the Mountain On the Far Side of the Mountain Greenwood  The Last Safe House Gipson   Old Yeller Hest  Great Green Notebook Of Katie Roberts Hudson    Great Black Heroes:  Five Brave Explorers Hurwitz   Class Clown Keller  Helen Keller:  The Story of My Life McBride  Little House on the Prairie Merrill  The Girl Who Loved Butterflies Merrill   The Toothpaste Millionaire Myers The Keeping Room Naylor   The Girls Get Even Nixon   Orphan Train    Adventures (Series) Paulsen    Harris and Me Robinson The Best School Year Ever Rockwell  How to Eat Fried Worms San Souci  The Boy and the Ghost Selden      Cricket in Time Square Smith  Martin’s Mice Sperry    Call It Courage Wallace   Totally Disgusting Warner The Boxcar Children (Series) Wilder      Little House  (Series) Winthrop  The Castle in the Attic The Battle for the Castle

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Reading Aloud with your child

(The following is adapted from material presented at Bell's Crossing by Kelly Davis and Angie Neal 1/24/05)

Parents are their children's first teacher.  One of the most powerful things parents can do to improve their child's reading and spelling abilities is to read aloud to them.  A great goal is to read aloud to your child 15 minutes each day - but parents don't have to just read books!  Magazines, recipes, newspaper articles, cereal boxes - all these are great ways to include reading in a child's daily life!  When reading books to your child, be sure to include books that are of high interest to him or her. One way to insure this is to take a trip to the local library and let your child pick out a few books that look interesting.  Librarians love to be helpful by directing you to suitable books for your child's interests.  Here are just a few benefits of reading aloud to your child:

 *develops a stronger vocabulary than just watching tv or conversation

 *develops knowledge about different kinds of texts

 *develops self monitoring skills and predicting skills

 *develops a higher level of knowledge about language

 *encourages a positive attitude about reading and learning

 *increases world knowledge without direct experience

Ways to read aloud with your child:

*Child reads to the Parent:  This helps your child gain confidence in his or her reading ability.   Re-reading the same material each night helps develop this confidence.

*Parents read to the Child:  This builds positive attitudes towards books and develops an understanding of written language. 

*Child and Parent read together:  Take turns reading paragraphs or pages.  Always be positive, and have fun!

What to do if your child seems to be struggling with reading

When your child gets "stuck": Ask the child "What would make sense here?"
                              Have your child look at the pictures
                              Skip the word or phrase and come back to it
                              Encourage your child to look at the first letter and decide
                              what might make sense here
                              Ask the child "Do you see a part of the word that you know?"

Easiest Ways to Decode a word: reading the words by "sight"
                               Looking at root words and suffixes
                               Looking at syllables or word chunks
                               Saying each sound alone

When studying, encourage your child to make associations between himself and the lesson.  What does he have in common and/or why is this information important to him?  Help your child define the purpose of the lesson will help with motivation

"A pro-active and knowledgeable parent is a critical factor in transforming an unhappy, struggling reader into a happy, proficient one" - Sally Shaywitz, "Overcoming Dyslexia"

Encourage your child to Never Give Up!  Many successful adults have struggled with reading their whole lives, yet have become very successful people.  These include:  Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, Bill Hewlett of HP computers, Nolan Ryan, professional baseball player, and Charles Schwab.

Fun Reading-related Websites

www.readingrockets.org

www.pbskids.org

www.scholastic.com

www.starfall.com
                              
 

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