Summer Reading
Dear New 4th Grade Parents,
This summer I am asking the students to continue their practice of reading. Not only will this give them a pleasurable pastime, it will also keep their reading skills sharp.
If you could, please develop a simple reading program with your child. It could as simple as a quiet time set aside each day for reading only.
Each student should read several books this summer. The following two reading lists can be used for ideas and guidance. To find out more about a book, you can click on the book's image to look inside.
4th Grade
Amazon.com: 4th Grade Chapter Books
5th Grade
Amazon.com: 5th Grade Chapter Books
6th Grade
Amazon.com: 6th Grade Chapter Books
These books can then be found in bookstores, online, or at the library.* Students can keep track of the books that they read on a sheet of lined paper which can then be turned in to me when school starts in September. I’d love to see what they read.
Reminders:
Children this age often need recognized private reading time and space.
They need to see their parents reading and valuing the act of reading.
They enjoy reading aloud to their parents and having their parents read aloud to them.
Thank you, very much, and I hope you have a great summer.
Wayne Riddle
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* The students should probably not read the following books which will be read in class over the next couple of years:
(If they have already, it's not a problem.)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Flora and Ulysses by Cate DiCamillo
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Giver by Lois Lowry
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Flora and Ulysses by Cate DiCamillo
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Esperanza Rising by Pam Nunoz Ryan
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Sophia's War by Avi
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Operation Redwoods by S. Terrell French
This summer I am asking the students to continue their practice of reading. Not only will this give them a pleasurable pastime, it will also keep their reading skills sharp.
If you could, please develop a simple reading program with your child. It could as simple as a quiet time set aside each day for reading only.
Each student should read several books this summer. The following two reading lists can be used for ideas and guidance. To find out more about a book, you can click on the book's image to look inside.
4th Grade
Amazon.com: 4th Grade Chapter Books
5th Grade
Amazon.com: 5th Grade Chapter Books
6th Grade
Amazon.com: 6th Grade Chapter Books
These books can then be found in bookstores, online, or at the library.* Students can keep track of the books that they read on a sheet of lined paper which can then be turned in to me when school starts in September. I’d love to see what they read.
Reminders:
Children this age often need recognized private reading time and space.
They need to see their parents reading and valuing the act of reading.
They enjoy reading aloud to their parents and having their parents read aloud to them.
Thank you, very much, and I hope you have a great summer.
Wayne Riddle
__________________________________________________________________________________
* The students should probably not read the following books which will be read in class over the next couple of years:
(If they have already, it's not a problem.)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Flora and Ulysses by Cate DiCamillo
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Giver by Lois Lowry
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Flora and Ulysses by Cate DiCamillo
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Esperanza Rising by Pam Nunoz Ryan
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Sophia's War by Avi
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Operation Redwoods by S. Terrell French