Reading is Fun

June 4, 2009 by PurpleLady722
Filed under Activites, Education, News, Reading

Summer Reading List

Summer is a time to relax and a time to share precious fun filled hours at a more leisurely pace. The summer also offers a great opportunity for students to engage in reading wonderful books that will enrich their academic experience. Below you will find the required book reading list for grades k-5. Please encourage your child to read as much as possible. Your child may read up or down on the list if their particular grade level list seems to be too difficult or too easy. The list will also be loaded on our school’s website over the summer. Enjoy your summer! Enjoy your downtime! We look forward to seeing how well you are reading when you return! Have the best summer ever!!!

Grade	Title	Author
K entering 1st	Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?	Bill Martin
K	Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus	Mo Willems
K	Duck on Bike	David Shannon
K	Where is the Green Sheep?	Fox, Mem and Horacek, Judy
K	Kitten’s First Full Moon	Kevin Henkes
K	Rosie’s Walk	Pat Huchins
K	All the Colors of the Earth	Sheila Hamanaka
K	Cars and How they Go	Joanna Cole
K	Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?	Tana Hoban
K	Frog Counts to Ten	John Liebler
K	All the Colors of the Earth	Sheila Hamanaka
1^st entering second	*Days with Frog and Toad	Arnold Lobel
1	* Junie .B. Jones First Grader (At Last)	Barbra Park
1	Fox and His Friend	Edward Marshall
1	When Will I Read?	Miriam Cohen
1	Owen	Kevin Henkes
1	The Very Busy Spider	Eric Carle
1	Rainbow Fish	Marcus Pfister
1	And I Mean It, Stanley	Crosby Bonsall
1	Green Eggs and Ham	Dr. Seuss
1	Cars and How they Go	Joanna Cole
2^nd entering third	* Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion (or any book in the series)	Suzy Kline
2	Second Grade Friends	Mirian Gohen
2	*Amelia Bedelia (series or any book in the series)	Peggy Parish
2	Doctor De Soto	William Steig
2	Something Beautiful	Sharon Dennis Wyeth
2	Ramona Quimby Age 8	Beverly Cleary
2	Ben and Me	Robert Lawson
2	The Talking Eggs	Robert D. San Souci
2	The Candy Corn Contest	Patricia Reilly Giff
2	*Henry and Mudge (series or any book in the series)	Cynthia Rylant
3^rd entering 4th	Jumanji Charlotte’s Web	Chris Van Allsburg E.B. White
3	I was a Third Grade Spy	Mary Jane Auch
3	How to Be Cool in the Third Grade	Betsy Duffey
3	*Cam Jansen The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds (series or any book in the series)	David A. Adler
3	Pink and Say by	Patricia Polacco
3	Pinky and Rex	James Howe
3	Shelia Rae the Brave	Kevin Henkes
3	Mrs. Katz and Tush	Patricia Palacco
3	Through Grandpa’s Eyes	Patricia MacLachlan
3	Be Good to Eddie	Virginia Fleming
4^th entering 5th	Uncle Jed’s Barbershop	Margaree King Mitchell
4	Charlotte’s Web	E.B. White
4	The Mouse and the Motorcycle	Beverly Clearly
4	Talk About A Family	Eloise Greenfield
4	Wayside School is Falling Down	Louis Sachar
4	Julian, Secret Agent	Ann Cameron
4	Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man	Donald J. Sobol
4	Aliens Ate My Homework	Bruce Coville
4	Harriet, the Spy	Louise Fitzhugh
4	You Can’t Eat your Chicken Pox Amber Brown	Paula Danziger

Fifth Grade will not be asked to turn their book list in next year but here are a few suggested titles for summer reading to enhance their fluency and comprehension.

5^th entering 6th	The Watson Go to Birmingham-1963	Christopher Curtis
5	The Skin I’m in	Sharon Flake
5	Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli
5	Spiders	Nick Bishop
5	Holes	Louis Sachar
5	Frindle	Andrew Clements
5	Lunch Money	Andrew Clements
5	Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson