Summer Learning Resources
Please scroll through for educational, exciting, fun, and age appropriate
web links and reading lists.
Kindergarten / First Grade / Second Grade / Third Grade / Fourth Grade / Middle School
See Also: Upper School Reading Lists
Literary Specialist Laura Bruni Summer Reading List
Kindergarten Summer Learning Websites
Language Arts, Reading, and Phonics:
http://www.lexile.com/
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://teacher.scholastic.com
http://www.learningplanet.com
http://www.quia.com/mc/50488.html
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
http://vocabsushi.com/
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/abcmatch/
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/play.htm?f
http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm#
http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/online/alphabet/abc-word.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/
http://www.kindersite.org/Directory/DirectoryFrame.htm
http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx
http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/learn-abcs/games/game_connect_the_letters.html
Math:
http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/home Username: mmace
http://funschool.kaboose.com
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://fen.funbrain.com/count/index.html
http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm
http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/cyc/index.asp
Judaics/ Parsha of the Week:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/
http://www.chabad.org/
http://www.g-dcast.com/
http://www.babaganewz.com/
http://www.akhlah.com/
http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com/
http://zigzagworld.com/
First Grade Summer Learning Websites
Language Arts, Reading, and Phonics:
http://www.lexile.com/
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://teacher.scholastic.com
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
http://www.vocabsushi.com/
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/play.htm?f
Math:
http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/home Username: mmace
http://www.aaamath.com/k2d-count.html
http://funschool.kaboose.com
http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Order.html
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://fen.funbrain.com/count/index.htmll
http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm
http://www.learningplanet.com
Judaics/ Parsha of the Week:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/
http://www.chabad.org/
http://www.g-dcast.com/
http://www.babaganewz.com/
http://www.akhlah.com/
http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com/
http://zigzagworld.com/
Second Grade Summer Learning Websites
Language Arts:
http://www.lexile.com/
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://www.funbrain.com
http://www.eduplace.com
http://www.iknowthat.com/
http://www.learningplanet.com
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch
http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Phonics_and_Phonemes/Long_Vowels
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
http://www.vocabsushi.com/
http://www.starfall.com/
Math:
http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/home Username: mmace
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/mathfact/mathFact.htm
http://www.lizardpoint.com/math/mathsheet.html
http://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcards.htm
http://www.mathplayground.com
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/skip-counting.html
http://www.oswego.org
http://www.iknowthat.com/
Judaics/ Parsha of the Week:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/
http://www.chabad.org/
http://www.g-dcast.com/
http://www.babaganewz.com/
http://www.akhlah.com/
http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com/
http://zigzagworld.com/
Third Grade Summer Learning Websites
Language Arts:
http://www.lexile.com/
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://www.funbrain.com
http://www.eduplace.com
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_3rd_lang.htm
http://www.gamequarium.com/index2.htm
http://www.iknowthat.com/
http://www.learningplanet.com
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
http://www.vocabsushi.com/
Math:
http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/home Username: mmace
http://www.aaastudy.com
http://www.honorpoint.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
http://www.mathplayground.com
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.321know.com
http://www.oswego.org
http://www.iknowthat.com
Judaics/ Parsha of the Week:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/
http://www.chabad.org/
http://www.g-dcast.com/
http://www.babaganewz.com/
http://www.akhlah.com/
http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com/
http://zigzagworld.com/
Fourth Grade Summer Learning Websites
Language Arts:
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://www.funbrain.com
http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.cfm
http://www.chompchomp.com
http://www.eduplace.com
http://www.gamequarium.com/index2.htm
http://www.iknowthat.com/
http://www.learningplanet.com
http://www.primarygames.com/reading.htm
http://www.vocabsushi.com/
Math:
http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/home Username: mmace
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
http://www.4kids.org/games/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
http://www.mathplayground.com
http://illuminations.nctm.org
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
http://www.mathplayground.com
http://www.aaastudy.com
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.321know.com
http://www.oswego.org
http://www.iknowthat.com/
Judaics/ Parsha of the Week:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/
http://www.chabad.org/
http://www.g-dcast.com/
http://www.babaganewz.com/
http://www.akhlah.com/
http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com/
http://zigzagworld.com/
Spelling Bee:
http://www.tvokids.com/games/spellingbee
www.spellingbeethegame.com/
Geography Bee:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/puzzlesquizzes/quizyournoodle-geography-bee/
http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/history-geography/index.html
Middle School Summer Learning Websites
Language Arts:
https://www.wpponline.com/Welcome.aspx
http://www.lexile.com/
http://www.raz-kids.com/
http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.cfm
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/middle-school-summer-reading-list/
Math:
http://pagekeeper.teachingmatters.org/home Username: mace
Judaics/ Parsha of the Week:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/
http://www.chabad.org/
http://www.g-dcast.com/
http://www.babaganewz.com/
http://www.akhlah.com/
http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com/
http://zigzagworld.com/
Spelling Bee:
http://www.tvokids.com/games/spellingbee
www.spellingbeethegame.com/
Geography Bee:
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/puzzlesquizzes/quizyournoodle-geography-bee/
http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/history-geography/index.html
Science:
http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/science.htm
Current Events:
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/cevents.html
http://www.kidinfo.com/current_events/current_events.html
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLENGLISHDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
This article lists books from a great classical and contemporary canon‐even though it is from 2004. Also anything the American Library Association’s 2010 Best Books for Young Adults. Two great sources from which parents and children could select together. Read, read, and read! washingtonpost.com
Summer Reading List for High School Students
By Summer Reading List For High School Students
Sunday, September 19, 2004; Page BW08
If, as the 18th-century English essayist Sir Richard Steele suggested, "Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body," area high school students got plenty of exercise this past summer.
Here are some of the other titles that appeared on reading lists for rising seniors:
FICTION
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville
Bless the Beasts & Children, by Glenson Swarthout
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
Dancing on the Edge, by Han Nolan
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLENGLISHDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
The Diagnosis, by Alan Lightman
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells Dubliners, by James Joyce
El Bronx Remembered, by Nicholasa Mohr
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris
A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer
Home of the Braves, by David Klass
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
In This Sign, by Joanne Greenberg
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
Jubilee, by Margaret Walker
"King Lear," (and "Hamlet" and "Macbeth")
by William Shakespeare
The Kitchen God's Wife, by Amy Tan
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Native Son, by Richard Wright
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLENGLISHDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow
Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
Rule of the Bone, by Russell Banks
Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer
Running Loose, by Chris Crutcher
The Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama
Shane, by Jack Schaefer
Shogun, by James Clavell
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
True Grit, by Charles Portis
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLENGLISHDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, by Michael Dorris
NONFICTION
Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder
Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt
Fathering Words: The Making of an
African American Writer, by E. Ethelbert Miller
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years,
by Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young
Black Man in America, by Nathan McCall
My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and
Love After Auschwitz, by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot
Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys
Growing Up in the Other America, by Alex Kotlowitz
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLSCIENCEDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
FORAPENVIRONMENTALSCIENCE:
Each student in AP Environmental Science is expected to select at least one of the books
belowtobereadoverthesummer.Atermpaperwillbedueshortlyaftertheschoolyear
begins. Feel free to read more than one of them, as all are relevant to the topic we will
study during the year. Titles with an asterisk (*) are especially worth reading or have
significanthistoricalvalue.
AReasonforHopebyJaneGoodall
ASandCountryAlmanacbyAldoLeopold
BeyondMalthusbyLesterBrown*
CadillacDesertbyMarcReisner*
DeepEcologybyBillDevall
DesertSolitairebyEdwardAbbey
EarthintheBalancebyAlGore*
EarthUnderSiegebyRichardP.Turco
Ecology,Economics,andEthics:TheBrokenCirclebyBonnanandKellert
EncounterWiththeArchdruidbyJohnMcPhee
FirstAlongtheRiver:ABriefHistoryoftheU.S.EnvironmentalMovement,byBenjamin
Kline
GorillasintheMistbyDianFossey
Guns,Germs,andSteelbyJaredDiamond*
HowManyPeopleCantheEarthSupport?ByJoelE.Cohen
IntheShadowofManbyJaneGoodal
LifeinBalance:HumanityandBiodiversitybyNilesEldredge
LifeonEarth,EditedbyHeatherNewbold
LivingDownStream:CancerandtheEnviromentbySandraSteinberger
OurChoicebyAlGore
OurEcologicalFootprintbyWackernagelandRees
SilentSpringbyRachelCarson*
SmallWonderbyBarbaraKingsolver
The6thExtinctionbyLeakeyandLewin
TheBurningSeasonbyAndrewRevkin
TheComingPlaguebyLaurieGarret
TheControlofNaturebyJohnMcPhee
TheDiversityofLifebyE.O.Wilson
TheEndofEvolutionbyPeterWard*
TheFutureofLifebyE.O.Wilson*
ThePopulationBombbyPaulEhrich*
TheStorkandThePlowbyPaulEhrich
TinkeringWithEdenbyKimTodd
TrackingtheVanishingFrogsbyKathrynPhillips
UncommonGround:RethinkingtheHumanPlaceinNature,EditedbyWilliamCronon*
FORPHYSICS/HONORSPHYSICS:
Studentsmaywishtoreadoneofthefollowingbooksoverthesummertopreparefortheir
yearinphysics.Allareinterestingandsomearechallenging.
BrainteaserPhysics:ChallengingPhysicsPuzzlersbyGöranGrimvall
ABriefHistoryofTimebyStephenHawking
Flatland:ARomanceofManyDimensionsbyEdwinA.Abbot
SurelyYou'reJoking,Mr.Feynman!byRichardP.Feynman
TheIsaacNewtonSchoolofDriving:PhysicsbyBarryParker
ThePhysicsofBasketballbyJohnJosephFontanella
ThePhysicsofStarTrekbyLawrenceKrauss
APPHYSICS:
EachstudentenrolledinAPPhysicsmustreadONEofthefollowingbooksoverthe
summer(additionalbooksmayberead,ifdesired).
ABriefHistoryofTimebyStephenHawking
Flatland:ARomanceofManyDimensionsbyEdwinA.Abbot
SurelyYou'reJoking,Mr.Feynman!byRichardP.Feynman
TheIsaacNewtonSchoolofDriving:PhysicsbyBarryParker
Studentsmustalsowritea3‐5‐pagereport/reflectionoutliningtheimportantfactsfrom
thebook,whattheylearned,andhowtheythinkthisnewknowledgefromthebookwill
helpthemduringtheiryearofAPPhysics.
Thisreportistobetyped,double‐spaced,inTimesNewRoman12pointfont,andisdueon
thefirstdayofschool.
FORCHEMISTRY:
Studentsmaywishtoreadoneofthefollowingbooksoverthesummertopreparefortheir
yearinphysics.Allareinterestingandsomearechallenging.
ACivilActionbyJonathanHarr
AShortHistoryofChemistrybyJ.R.Parrington
AShortHistoryofNearlyEverythingbyBillBryson
AbsoluteZerobyJohnShachtman
AcidTonguesandTranquilDreamers:EightScientificRivalriesThatChangedtheWorld
byMichaelWhite.
AliceinQuantumlandbyRobertGilmore
Beethoven'sHairbyRussellMartin
ChemicalHistoryTour:PicturingChemistryfromAlchemytoModernMolecularScience
(Lavishlyillustrated)byArtGreenberg
ChemistryImagined:ReflectionsonSciencebyRoaldHoffmann&VivianTorrence
Crucibles:theStoryofChemistryfromAncientAlchemytoNuclearFissionbyBernard
Jaffe
Heisenberg'sWar:TheSecretHistoryoftheGermanBombbyThomasPowers
IdeasinChemistry:AHistoryoftheSciencebyDavidKnight
InSearchofSchrodinger’sCatbyJohnGribbon
InvitationtoChemistrybyIraDufresneGarard
Kepler'sWitch:AnAstronomer'sDiscoveryofCosmicOrderAmidReligiousWar,Political
Intrigue,andtheHeresyTrialofHisMotherbyJamesA.Connor
Mauve:HowOneManInventedaColorthatChangedtheWorldbySimonGarfield
Mendeleev'sDreambyPaulStrathern
MolecularOrigamibyBobHanson
Napoleon’sButtons:17MoleculesthatChangedHistorybyLeCouteur&Burreson
OldWineNewFlasks:ReflectionsonScience&JewishTraditionbyRoaldHoffmann&Shira
LeibowitzSchmidt
Oxygen:TheMoleculethatMadetheWorldbyNickLane
OxygenbyCarlDjerassi&RoaldHoffmann
SaltbyMarkKulansky
Schrodinger’sKittensbyJohnGribbon
TheBigBang,aHistoryofExplosives(noHow‐to’s)byGIBrown
TheGenieintheBottlebyJoeSchwarcz
TheLastSorcerersbyRichardMorris
TheLittleBookOfSciencebyJohnGribbin
TheMakingoftheAtomicBombbyRichardRhodes
TheMonkey'sWrenchbyPrimoLevi
ThePeriodicTablebyPrimoLevi
TheRadioactiveBoyscout:ThetruestoryofaboyandhisbackyardnuclearreactorbyKen
Silberstein.
TheScienceofHarryPotter:HowMagicReallyWorksbyRogerHighfield
The13thElement:TheSordidTaleofMurder,FireandPhosphorusbyJohnElmsley
UncleTungsten:MemoriesofaChemicalBoyhoodbyOliverSacks
WhyThingsBreakbyMarkEberhart.
FORBIOLOGY/HONORSBIOLOGY:
StudentsinBiologyandHonorsBiologymaywishtoreadoneofthefollowingbooksover
thesummertopreparefortheircomingyear.
TheAntibioticParadox:HowtheMisuseofAntibioticsDestroysTheirCurativePowersby
StuartB.Levy
Biohazard:TheChillingTrueStoryoftheLargestCovertBiologicalWeaponsProgramin
theWorldbyKenAlibek
BombardierBeetlesandFeverTrees:ACloseUpLookatChemicalWarfareandSignalsin
AnimalsandPlantsbyWilliamC.Agosta
TheComingPlague:NewlyEmergingDiseasesinaWorldOutofBalancebyLaurieGarrett
ChemicalCommunication:TheLanguageofPheromonesbyWilliamC.Agosta
TheChinaStudy:TheMostComprehensiveStudyofNutritionEverConductedbyT.Colin
Campbell
TheDemonHauntedWorld:ScienceAsaCandleintheDarkbyCarlA.Sagan
Extinction:BadGenesorBadLuckbyDavidM.Raup
FastFoodNation:TheDarkSideoftheAllAmericanMealbyEricSchlosser
FutureBioethics:OvercomingTaboos,Myths,andDogmasbyRonaldA.Lindsay
Genome:TheAutobiographyofaSpeciesin23ChaptersbyMattRidley
TheGrowthofBiologicalThought:Diversity,Evolution,andInheritancebyErnstMayr
HeredityandHope:TheCaseforGeneticScreeningbyRuthSchwartzCowan
TheHotZone:ATerrifyingTrueStorybyRichardPreston
TheImmortalLifeofHenriettaLacksbyRebeccaSkloot
KillerGerms:MicrobesandDiseasesThatThreatenHumanitybyBarryZimmerman
LivingwithOurGenes:WhyTheyMatterMoreThanYouThinkbyDeanH.Hamer
NaturalObsessions:StrivingtoUnlocktheDeepestSecretsoftheCancerCellbyNatalie
Angier
Mutants:OnGeneticVarietyandTheHumanBodybyArmandMarieLeroy
TheOriginofSpeciesbyCharlesDarwin
OurStolenFuture:AreWeThreateningOurFertility,Intelligence,andSurvival?AScientific
DetectiveStorybyTheoColborn,etal.
ScienceandHumanValuesbyJacobBronowski
Serendipity:AccidentalDiscoveriesinSciencebyRoystonM.Roberts
AShortHistoryofNearlyEverythingbyBillBryson
TheSilentSky:TheIncredibleExtinctionofthePassengerPigeonbyAllanW.Eckert
Smallpox:TheDeathofaDisease:TheInsideStoryofEradicatingaWorldwideKillerby
D.A.Henderson
TheStemCellDivide:TheFacts,theFiction,andtheFearDrivingtheGreatestScientific,
Political,andReligiousDebateofOurTimebyMichaelBellomo
SurrogateMotherhoodandthePoliticsofReproductionbySusanMarkens
FORFORENSICS:
Thekilleroflittleshepherds:atruecrimestoryandthebirthofforensicsciencebyDouglas
Starr.
Mortalevidence:theforensicsbehindnineshockingcasesbyCyrilWechtandGregSaitz,
withMarkCurriden;forewordbyHenryC.Lee.
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLMATHDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
MATH:
ForthosetakingAlgebra:
http://glencoe.mcgraw‐hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078885159/632857/pasnbse.pdf
ForthosetakingAlgebraII
http://glencoe.mcgraw‐hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078884829/633670/alg2snbse.pdf
ForthosetakingGeometry
http://glencoe.mcgraw‐hill.com/sites/dl/free/0078884845/634463/geosnbse.pdf
Theabovebooksarejustanoverviewofthecourseinthemostbasicform.
ADELSONUPPERSCHOOLHISTORYDEPARTMENTREADINGLIST2011
USHISTORY:
TheAmericans‐‐DanielJ.Boorstin
TheFederalistPapers‐‐JohnJay;AlexanderHamilton;JamesMadison
TheJungle‐‐UptonSinclair
ProfilesinCourage‐‐JohnF.Kennedy
HuckleberryFinn‐‐MarkTwain
ISRAELHISTORY:
MythsandFacts‐‐MitchellBard
TheSix‐DayWar‐‐MichaelOren
Power,FaithandFantasy:AmericaintheMiddleEast‐‐MichaelOren
TheCaseforIsrael‐‐AlanDershowitz
TheYomKippurWar‐‐AbrahamRabinovitch
MIDDLEEASTHISTORY:
TheMiddleEast‐‐BernardLewis
WhatWentWrong‐‐BernardLewis
TheDreamPalaceoftheArabs‐‐FouadAjami
TheIdiot’sGuidetotheMiddleEastConflict‐‐MitchellBard
WORLDHISTORY:
CarnageandCulture‐‐VictorDavisHanson
Guns,GermsandSteel‐‐JaredDiamond
HISTORYOFIDEAS:
AHistoryofWesternPhilosophy‐‐BertrandRussell
IdeasthatChangedTheWorld‐‐FelipeFernandez‐Armesto