Take Your Imagination on Vacation This Summer!!! 2015 Summer Reading Program Selections and Guidelines Grades K – 5 Garfield Public School District BOTH THE BOOK LIST AND ACTIVITIES ARE TO BE HANDED IN TO THE CLASSROOM TEACHER IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR COMPLETING THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM. ALL INFORMATION CAN BE ACCESSED ON www.gboe.org BY CLICKING ON THE SUMMER READING LINK. BE SURE TO REGISTER FOR THE READING PROGRAM AT THE GARFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY. BOOKS READ WITH THE LIBRARY PROGRAM MAY BE USED ON OUR LIST, AS LONG AS THE BOOKS ARE ON THE CHILD’S READING LEVEL. FORMS FOR ASSIGNMENTS CAN BE RECREATED BY PHOTOCOPYING, DOWNLOADING OFF THE SCHOOL WEBSITE OR HANDWRITING IT ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER. A LIMITED NUMBER OF FORMS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT THE GARFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY. June 2015 Garfield Public Schools Nicholas L. Perrapato 34 Outwater Lane, Garfield, NJ 07026 973-340-5000 Superintendent of Schools Dear Parents and Students, Summer is a time for fun and relaxation as well as a great opportunity to read! Therefore, we are inviting you to participate in our district-wide K-5 summer reading program. This program is a way to keep children’s reading skills sharp while traveling or spending time at home during the summer. Provided in this packet is a list of age appropriate books and activities for students to work on during summer vacation. The local library as well as bookstores can assist you in finding these books. Upon returning to school in the fall, students will hand in their completed activities to their teacher. The elementary schools will each recognize those students for their extra hard work and dedication to reading by bestowing upon them a reward for their participation in the program as well as give credit towards their Reading grade. Have a wonderful summer and come back in September ready to share all your reading adventures! The district is proud of our students and look forward to seeing their growth as readers. Sincerely, Nicholas L. Perrapato Superintendent of Schools Incoming Grades K-2 All incoming Kindergarten through Second grade students in all the elementary schools throughout Garfield will be participating in this year’s Summer Reading Program. The suggested reading list is attached for all grade levels. Students may choose a book on any topic they enjoy that is written by one of the suggested authors from this list. The books MUST be written on the student’s reading level. To be rewarded for successful reading, the Summer Reading Log form and all assignments are to be completed and returned to the student’s classroom teacher NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 11, 2015. Grades for this year’s completed Summer Reading assignments will be included in the first Trimester Reading grade. Be sure that all of the information has been listed, assignments have been completed, and the Summer Reading Log form is signed by a parent/guardian. Each student who completes ALL the Summer Reading guidelines will be rewarded at the start of the school year. Students are expected to read, or have read to them, five books on their reading level. Complete the provided Summer Reading Log form including all of the information listed. Students in incoming grades K and 1 must pick 1 book that they read and complete the attached story assignment. Students in incoming grades 2 must pick 3 books that they read and complete the attached story assignments. The elementary schools will each recognize students for their extra hard work and dedication to reading by bestowing upon them a reward for their participation in the program as well as give credit towards their reading grade. ******Suggested Summer Reading List for Grades K-2**** Fairy Tales The Three Billy Goats Gruff Little Red Riding Hood Puss in Boots Rapunzel Jack and the Beanstalk Princess and the Pea Sleeping Beauty The Little Red Hen Books written by Cynthia Rylant ; David A. Adler (A Picture Book of…) Picture Books Sergei Prokofiev Robin Pulver Brian Floca Peter and the Wolf Punctuation Takes a Vacation Locomotive (Caldecott Award 2014) Mutlticultural Books Ysaye M. Barnwell Evelyn Coleman Bill Martin Jr. Taro Yashima Samantha R. Vamos Claire Sidhorn Matz Jacqueline Woodson Nyul Choi Monica Brown Paulina Karwowska No Mirrors in My Nana’s House White Socks Only Knots on a Counting Rope Crow Boy The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred The Stars in my Geddoh’s Sky The Other Side Halmoni and the Picnic Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald No Combina Wigilia: A Tale About a Polish American Family on Christmas Eve Historical Fiction Vaunda Michaeux Nelson Connie Roop Eileen Luca Margaret K. Wetterer Shirley Raye Redmond Patricia Polacco Deborah Hopkinson Eve Bunting Books written by: Jean Fritz; Avi Almost to Freedom Buttons for General Washington Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President John Philip Duck Apples to Oregon Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story Chapter Books Cynthia Rylant Books from the Henry and Mudge Series Cynthia Rylant Puppy Mudge Series Paula Danziger Books from the Amber Brown Series Michael Bond A Bear Called Paddington Books written by A.A. Milne; Kate DiCamillo; Roald Dahl; E.B White; Beverly Cleary; Ann Cameron History and Adventure Eleanor Coerr Thomas P. Lewis Barbara Brenner Linda Sue Park Janet Squires Elvira Woodruff Myron Ulberg Alison Inches Books written by Meghan McCarthy The Big Balloon Race (and other titles) Hill of Fire Wagon Wheels Bee Bim Bop The Gingerbread Cowboy Small Beauties: The Story of Darcy Heart O’Hara Dad, Jackie and Me The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling Math John Updike A Child’s Calendar Ann Whitford Paul Count on Culebra: Go From 1 to 10 Alison McGhee Countdown to Kindergarten Stephen T. Johnson City by Numbers Cathryn Falwell Feast for Ten Susan L. Roth My Love for Mom All Year Round Peg Deitz Shea &Cynthia Weill Ten Mice for Tet Margarette S. Reid Lots and Lots of Coins Christopher Wormell Teeth Tails and Tentacles An Animal Counting Book Keiko Kasza My Lucky Day Vera Williams A Chair for My Mother Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and other titles) Wanda Gag Millions of Cats (and other titles) Pat Hutchins The Doorbell Rang (and other titles) Books written by Marilyn Burns; Loreen Leedy Science Robert E. Wells Anne Rockwell Aliki Ruth Krauss Gail Gibbons Can We Share the World With Tigers? Apples and Pumpkins My Hands The Carrot Seed Monarch Butterfly, Frogs, From Seed to Plant, Apples, Elephants of Africa, Horses, Penguins Books written by Seymour Simon; Melvin Berger TO BE COMPLETED BY All INCOMING Kindergarteners and Grade 1 Students must complete this form. Select one of the books you read this summer. Your Name _______________________________________________________ Book Title ________________________________________________________ Author___________________________________________________________ In each box write a sentence and draw a picture that tells about the beginning, the middle, and the end of the book. If a child cannot write their own sentences, children may dictate the sentences for the parent to write. You may also use a separate piece of paper to write your sentences. Pictures should be drawn by the child. Parent Signature X_________________________________________________ ***TO BE COMPLETED BY ALL STUDENTS*** Summer Reading Log Complete this log along with your activities and return it to your classroom teacher in September. Make sure each book entry is signed by a parent/guardian. Book Title Author Parent Signature 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Student’s Name _________________________________________________ Teacher’s Name_______________________________________Grade____________ All Incoming Grades 3-5 All incoming grade three through grade five students in all the elementary schools throughout Garfield will be participating in this year’s Summer Reading Program. The suggested reading list is attached for these grade levels. Students may choose a book on any topic they enjoy that is written by one of the suggested authors from this list. The books MUST be written on the student’s reading level. To be rewarded for successful reading, the summer reading form and all assignments are to be completed and returned to the student’s classroom teacher NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 11, 2015. Grades for this year’s completed Summer Reading assignments will be included in the first Trimester Reading grade. Be sure that all of the information has been listed, assignments have been completed, and the Summer Reading Log form is signed by a parent/guardian. Each student who completes ALL the Summer Reading guidelines will be rewarded at the start of the school year. Students are expected to read five books on their reading level. Complete the summer reading form provided, including all of the information listed. Choose three books from the five books read and complete the form The Story Unfolds for fiction books and My Personal Thinking and Learning Record for nonfiction books. One Summer Reading form for each of the three books should be completed. A picture should be drawn on a separate piece of paper to go along with the book form. The student will give the classroom teacher three book forms with a picture attached to each form. The elementary schools will each recognize students for their extra hard work and dedication to reading by bestowing upon them a reward for their participation in the program as well as give credit towards their reading grade. ****Suggested Summer Reading List for Grades 3-5*** Fairy Tales John Steptoe Robert D. San Souci Robert D. San Souci Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters Cendrillon Little Gold Star: A Spanish-American Cinderella Tale Fiction Kate DiCamillo Rachel Vail Kevin Henkes Sharon Creech Stephen Pastis Sarah Weeks Andrew Clements Judy Blume Mary Hoffman Jerry Spinelli David Adler Beverly Cleary Paula Danziger James Preller Avi Patricia Polacco Ann Cameron Johanna Hurwitz Marjorie Sharmat Tomie de Paola Louis Sachar Marcia Brown Richard Atwater Eleanor Estes Barbara Robinson Donald J. Sobol Flora and Ulysses (Newbery Award 2014) Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom Junonia The Great Unexpected Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made Pie About Average Freckle Juice (and other titles) Amazing Grace (and other titles) Loser Cam Jansen (Series) Ramona (Series) Amber Brown (Series) The Case of the Spooky Sleepover Poppy Mrs. Katz and Tush (and other titles) Julian’s Glorious Summer Class Clown Nate the Great Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs Marvin Redpost (Series) Stone Soup Mr. Popper’s Penguins The Hundred Dresses The Best School Year Ever Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Series) Allan Say Grandfather’s Journey Patricia MacLachlan Betsy Duffy Mary Pope Osborne Lois Lowry Roald Dahl Sharon Creech E.L. Konigsburg Yoshiko Uchida Scott O’Dell Virginia Hamilton Betsy Byars Jan Lawrence Elizabeth Levy Gordon Korman Sarah, Plain and Tall How to Be Cool in 3rdGrade The Magic Treehouse (Series) Number the Stars Matilda (and other titles) Walk Two Moons The View From Saturday The Best Bad Thing Island of the Blue Dolphins Zeely The Summer of the Swans America’s Most Wanted Fifth Grader My Life as a Fifth Grade Comedian No More Dead Dogs Graphic Novels Nick Bruel Jennifer Holm Bad Kitty Meets the Baby Extreme Babymouse Historical Fiction Patricia Reilly Giff Lauren Tarshis Gingersnap (and other titles) I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 Mystery Alexander McCall Smith Maryrose Wood The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Unseen Guest Nonfiction Lila Perl It Happened in America; True Stories From the 50 States Deborah Hopkinson Titanic: Voices From the Disaster Joanna Cole Magic School Bus (Series) Aliki The Story of Johnny Appleseed Lynne Cherry A River Ran Wild Derrick Barnes Brand New School, Brave New Ruby Lorien Kite Life in the Rainforest Betsy Maestro The Statue of Liberty Lucy Baker Life in the Oceans Ann McGovern If You Lived a Hundred Years Ago Jeri Ferris Walking the Road to Freedom (and other titles) Betsy Maestro The Discovery Of Americas Henry Coles Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad Carolyn Descristofano A Black Hole is Not a Hole National Geographic Angry Birds: Space Books written by Gail Gibbons; Laurence Pringle; Seymour Simon Biography Lisa Cline-Ransome Margaret Frith Sharon Robinson Tanya Lee Stone Malala Yousafzai Anne Frank Laurie Myers Michell McCann Melvin Berger Pam Pollack Kadir Nelson In Your Own Words Diary of a Young Girl Lewis and Clark and Me Boys Who Rocked the World What Makes the Light Bright, Mr. Edison? Who was Nelson Mandela? Nelson Mandela Fantasy and Science Fiction Chris Columbus Adam Gidwitz Christopher Healy House of Secrets In A Glass Grimmly The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass Who Was Franklin D. Roosevelt? Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell Poetry Jack Prelustsky Langston Hughes Shel Siverstein Marilyn Singer I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus ( Or other titles) I, Too, Am America Falling Up (Or other Titles) Mirror Mirror: A book of Reversible Verse Sports Chris Crowe David Kelly Pat McKissack Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America’s Game Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse The Home Run King Matt Christopher Derek Jeter At the Plate with Mark McGuire (Series) Derek Jeter: The Contract More Great Authors to Explore: Dan Gutman; Gordon Korman; Wendy Mass; Gary Paulsen; Nic Bishop; Kate DiCamillo TO BE COMPLETED BY All INCOMING GRADE 3 THROUGH GRADE 5 STUDENTS FOR FICTION BOOKS The Story Unfolds Name ___________________________________________________________ Book Title ________________________________________________________ Author __________________________________________________________ How well did you understand the story? Fill in the sections below. Talk it over with a parent/guardian. Main Characters: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Problem or Conflict in the Story ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Major Event #1: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Major Event #2: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Major Event #3: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Outcome or Solution: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ **On a separate piece of paper, write a paragraph that states the theme of the story. Make sure you use details from the story to support your answer.*** TO BE COMPLETED BY All INCOMING GRADE 3 THROUGH GRADE 5 STUDENTS FOR FICTION BOOKS (Fiction = Fake/Not Real) TO BE COMPLETED BY All INCOMING GRADE 3 THROUGH GRADE 5 STUDENTS FOR NON-FICTION BOOKS (Non-fiction = Real / Not Fake) Name___________________________ Date_______________________ My Personal Thinking and Learning Record Directions: 1. Before you read, write down everything you already know about the topic in the What I Know box. 2. Then write questions you have about the topic in the What I Want to Know box. 3. After you read, write important information and answers to your questions in the What I Learned box. 4. On the reverse side of this page, write two paragraphs. For the first paragraph write a summary about the book. In the second paragraph explain your feelings about the book and provide examples from the book to support your thinking. Topic: K What I Know W What I Want to Know L What I Learned TO BE COMPLETED BY All INCOMING GRADE 3 THROUGH GRADE 5 STUDENTS FOR NON-FICTION BOOKS (Non-fiction = Real / Not Fake) ***TO BE COMPLETED BY ALL STUDENTS*** Summer Reading Log Complete this log along with your activities and return it to your classroom teacher in September. Make sure each book entry is signed by a parent/guardian. Book Title Author Parent Signature 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Student’s Name _________________________________________________ Teacher’s Name_______________________________________Grade____________