Tips for Parents Great Websites for Kids Are Great for Summer Reading! Recommended Summer Book List for Kindergarten Recommended Summer Book List for First Grade Recommended Reading List for Second Grade Recommended Reading List for Third Grade Recommended Reading List for Fourth Grade Recommended Reading List for Fifth Grade
Tips for Parents
During school vacation, it is important for your child to spend time reading and writing on a regular basis. Luckily, summer’s more flexible schedule and wide array of activities lend themselves to literacy opportunities. Try some of these suggestions for making your child’s summer full of literacy fun.
- Be a reader and writer yourself. When you spend time reading books or even directions for how to put together the grill this summer, you demonstrate for your child that reading is both fun and useful.
- Set aside a consistent time each day for reading. Depending on your family’s schedule, reading time might be in the morning, afternoon or before bed. Whatever time you choose, stick to it, but also remember that flexibility around trips and special family events is OK.
- Read aloud to your reader. As school-aged children become better readers, parents often stop reading aloud to them. However, by reading more difficult books aloud to your reader, you help him learn new vocabulary words, concepts, and ways of telling stories or presenting information. You also enjoy the closeness of sharing a book with your child.
- Connect read-aloud choices to summer activities. Read your child books about camping, such as “Webster and Arnold Go Camping”, before or after a camping trip. When you read and discuss books about things your child has experienced, you help her learn important vocabulary and extend her understanding of experiences.
- Allow your child to choose books for summer reading. It is important for your child to read about topics that interest him, whether it is insects, dragons or a favorite fiction series.
- Help your child select books at a comfortable level. Listen to your child read. If he reads smoothly, uses expression and can accurately tell you what he read, the book is probably at a comfortable level. In addition, teach your child to use the “rule of thumb” in selecting books: if he makes five or more errors in reading a page of about 50 words, the book is too challenging.
- Encourage your child not to limit summer reading to books. Encourage your child to read the sports page to check up on her favorite baseball team or to read children’s magazines such as Ranger Rick, National Geographic World and New Moon.
- Take books along on outings. Pack books in your beach bag or picnic basket, and bring a stack on long car rides. You and your child can enjoy books together anywhere you go this summer.
- Encourage your child to write this summer, too. From writing postcards to friends and relatives to keeping a journal while on a trip, summer presents unique ways for your child to write about his own experiences. Have your child pack a disposable camera on vacations or day trips and help him create a book about his experiences.
- You will be able to find the suggested book titles listed for each grade level at the Manchester Public Library located at 405 Pine Street.
Great Websites for Kids Are Great for Summer Reading!
www.readkiddoread.com Helps parents and educators connect their children with the books that will turn them into lifelong readers.
www.spaghettibookclub.org The Spaghetti Book Club website is a place for kids who love to read and talk about books! It is the largest site of book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids.
www.guysread.com Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys. Helps boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
www.ala.org/greatsites This web gateway is produced by the American Library Association’s Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Children’s librarians evaluate books, magazines, and software for children to find the best of all that is available.
www.kidsreads.com Kids Reads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are their specialties. And for even more reading fun there are trivia games, word scrambles, and awesome contests! Recommended Summer Book List to Be Shared with Students Entering Kindergarten | Fiction Brown bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin,Jr. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson The Little Red Hen by Byron Barton LMNO Peas by Keith Baker 10 Little Fish by Audrey Woods Mouse's First Summer by Lauren Thompson How do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen Llama Llama Time To Share by Anna Dewdney Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems Boss Baby by Marla Frazee Bark, George! by Jules Feiffer Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumbs by Al Perkins When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang Duck And Goose Go to the Beach by Ted Hills Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont | Series Title Pete The Cat Series by Eric Litwin The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats The Gingerbread Man Series by Jim Aylesworth Knuffle Bunny by Mo Williams Clifford by Norman Bridwell If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff Max and Ruby by Rosemary Wells
Poetry
The Llama Who Had No Pajama by Mary Ann Hoberman Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky
| Non-Fiction Titles The Airplane Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta Little Dog Lost by Monica Carnesi Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? by Robert Wells The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons Cat, Dogs, or Trucks by Gail Gibbons The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons Tell Me,Tree by Gail Gibbons 26 Letters and 99 Numbers by Tana Hoban Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban It It Larger? Is It Smaller? by Tana Hoban Is It Red? Is It Yellow? by Tana Hoban Shadows and Reflections by Tana Hoban | Favorite Authors Eric Carle Mo Willems Jan Brett Dr, Seuss Marla Frazee David Shannon Eric Litwin
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Recommended Summer Book List To Be Shared with Students Entering First Grade | Fiction Titles Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Bill Martin, Jr. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson The Little Red Hen by Byron Barton The Three Bears by Byron Barton If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff If you Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman How do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein Mice on Ice by Rebecca and Ed Emberley Llama Llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems Boss Baby by Marla Frazee The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt | Series Titles Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems Corduroy by Don Freeman Arthur by Marc Brown Clifford by Norman Bridwell Franklin by Paulette Bourgeois If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff Max and Ruby by Rosemary Wells Piggy and Gerald by Mo Willems Pigeon by Mo Willems No,David! by David Shannon
Poetry Books Something Big Has Been Here by Jack Prelutsky Little Dog Poems by Kristine O’Connell George
| Non-Fiction Titles DK Readers The Airplane Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta Little Dog Lost by Monica Carnesi Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? By Robert Wells The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons Cats, Dogs or Trucks by Gail Gibbons Panda Kindergarten by Joanne Ryder
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Eric Carle Bob Graham Mo Willems Kevin Henkes Jan Brett Lois Ehlert Bill Martin, Jr. Dr. Seuss Judith Viorst Marla Frazee |
Recommended Summer Book List To Be Shared with Students Entering Second Grade | Fiction Titles Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon Bee Bim Bop by Linda Sue Park Ben's Trumpet Rachel Isadora Do Not Open this Book Michaela Munteam The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes The Mouse That Snored by Bernard Waber Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathman Stanley's Party by Linda Bailey Wanda's First Day by Mark Sperring The Three Ninja Pigs by Corey Rosen Schwartz Amelia Bedelia’s First Vote by Herman Parish Are you my Mother? by P.D. Eastman Mouse Tales or Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin | Series Titles Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant Minnie & Moo by Denys Cazet Mr. Putter and Tabby by Cynthia Rylant Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat Pinky and Rex by James Howe Amanda Pig by Jean Van Leeuwen Biscuit by Alyssa Capucilli Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw Young Cam Jansen by David Adler Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish Froggy by Jonathan London
Poetry Books Something Big Has Been Here by Jack Prelutsky Little Dog Poems by Kristine O’Connell George | Nonfiction Titles
Panda Kindergarten by Joanne Ryder Dinosaurs Alive and Well by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown Little Dog Lost: The True Story by Monica Carnesi Is a Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? by Robert Wells I Love Guinea Pigs by King-Smith Trucks or Cats or Dogs by Gail Gibbons Extreme Readers Series by Katharine Kenah National Geographic Weird but True Facts
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Tony Abbott Matt Christopher Doreen Cronin Kevin Henkes Marty Kelley Cynthia Rylant Bernard Waber Rosemary Wells Judith Viorst Mo Willems Marla Frazee |
Recommended Reading List To Be Shared With Students Entering Third Grade | Fiction Titles Hello, Goodbye Window by Chris Raschka Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neil Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Susan Stevens Crummel Fireboat by Maira Kalman Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech Swimmy by Leo Lionni The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble The Dog That Stole Football Plays by Matt Christopher Lucky Baseball Bat by Matt Christopher Chicken Little retold by Steven Kellogg The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy by Jane Thayer The Tortoise and the Hare by Jane Thayer Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathman The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors by Drew Daywalt __________________________________________________________ Nonfiction Titles Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Ice Cream: The Full Scoop by Gail Gibbons Tough, Toothy Baby Sharks by Sandra Markle What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins Bugs Before Time: Prehistoric Insects and Their Relatives by Cathy Camper Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins Living Color by Steve Jenkins Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy A True Story by Helen Lester Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World by Isabella Hatkoff Arithme-tickle: An Even Number of Odd Riddle Rhymes by J. Patrick Lewis The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Brian Selnick National Geographic Readers | Series Titles Cam Jansen by David Adler Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osbourne Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant Horrible Harry by Suzy Kline Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat Arthur by Marc Brown Pinky and Rex by James Howe Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel Amber Brown by Paula Danziger Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park Ivy and Bean by Anna Barrows Mercy Watson by Kate DiCimillo
Poetry Books Almost Late to School by Shields Blast Off: Poems About Space by Hopkins Street Music: City Poems by Adoff Take Me out of the Bathtub and other Silly Dilly Songs by Katz Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein You Read to Me and I’ll Read to You by Mary Ann Hoberman | Favorite Authors Kevin Henkes Tomie dePaola Jon Scieszka Peggy Parish William Steig Cynthia Rylant |
Recommended Reading List To Be Shared With Students Entering Fourth Grade | Fiction Titles Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Hero of Third Grade by Alice DeLaCroix Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco Frindle by Robert Clements How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater Wayside School by Louis Sachar Love by Matt DeLaPena Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo Lowji Discovers America by Candace Fleming Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford Remembering Mrs. Rossi by Amy Hest The Comic Book Kid by Adam Osterwell Hoop Queens by Charles Smith Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler by William Wise Soccer Mania by Erika Tamar Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinnelli Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder The Book of Slime by Ellen Jackson | Series Titles Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne The Kingdom of Fantasy by Geronimo Stilton My Weird School by Dan Gutman Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon Katie Kazoo by Nancy Krulik Judy Moody by Megan McDonald Shredderman by Wendelin Van Draanen Stink by Megan McDonald Clementine by Sara Pennypacker Aldo Ice Cream by Johanna Hurtz Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner My America Series by Patricia Hermes, Kate McMullan Weird But True by National Geographic Poetry A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky Riddle-icious by Patrick J. Lewis Dinosaur Dinner by Dennis Lee Beast Feast: Poems by Douglas Florian Runny Babbit Silverstein | Non-Fiction Titles/Authors Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights by Debbie Miller Wild and Woolly Mammoths by Aliki Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki Exploring the Titanic by Robert Ballard Dolphin Adventure: A True Story by Wayne Grover 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything) National Geographic Kids Quiz Whiz: 1,000 Super Fun, Mind-Bending National Geographic Kids Illusionology: The Secret Science of Magic by Albert Schafer Saving Animals After Tornadoes by Stephen Person | Favorite Authors Betsy Byars Matt Christopher Peg Kehret Beverly Cleary Brian Pinkey Dan Gutman
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Recommended Reading List To Be Shared With Students Entering Fifth Grade | Fiction Titles The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark by Ridley Pearson 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan Return to Sender Julia Alvarez: The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen by M. T. Anderson Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett No Talking by Andrew Clements Diary of a Fairy Godmother by Esme Raji Codell The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins The Pepins and Their Problems by Peggy Horvath Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonnell Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary’s Daring Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin Rescues! by Sandra Markle How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor Candy Floss by Jacqueline Woodson George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roahl Dahl _____________________________________________ Nonfiction Titles We Dare You!: Hundred of Science Bets by Vikki Cobb Challenges, and Experiments You Can Do at Home by Vikki Cobb Women Daredevils: Thrills, Chills, and Frills by Julie Cummins See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Themes and the Race to the White House by Susan Goodman Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories by Sandra Markle Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast by Megan McCarthy. Sabertooth by Patrick O’Brien Built to Last: Building America’s Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, and Skyscrapers by George Sullivan What if I Had Animal Teeth? By Sandra Markle | Series Titles Allie Finkle by Meg Cabot Anastasia by Lois Lowry Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars Blossom Family by Betsy Byars Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald Wayside School by Louis Sachar Amber Brown by Paula Danziger The Babysitters' Club by Ann M. Martin Chet Gecko Mysteries by Bruce Hale Sammy Keyes by Wendelin Van Draanen Ramona by Beverly Cleary Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos Henry Zipzer by Henry Winkler Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan Humphrey by Betty G. Birney I Survived Series by Lauren Tarshis ___________________________________________________ Poetry Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices by Paul Janeczko The Kingfisher Book of Family Poems by Belinda Hollyer Small Talk: A Book of Short Poems collected by Lee Hopkins Words with Wings A Treasury of Africian-American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle Science Verse by Jon Scieszka Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson _________________________________________________ Favorite Authors Roald Dahl Jon Scieszka Andrew Clements Wendelin Van Draaneen Sharon Creech Chris Van Allsburg Jack Gantos Ann M. Martin | Recommended Reading List for Entering Sixth Grade | Fiction Titles Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Wonder by R.J. Palacio The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman The High King by Lloyd Alexander The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis Holes by Louis Sachar James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Missing May by Cynthia Rylant Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Savvy By Ingrid Law Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate | Recommended Series 39 Clues by Various Authors The Olympian Series by Rick Riordan Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket Crispin by Avi Warriors by Erin Hunter The Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbott Poetry United States selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone by Alvin Schwartz Science Verse by Jon Scieszka Families: Poems that Celebrate the African American Experience by Dorothy Strickland Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices by Paul Janeczko A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul Janeczko The Kingfisher Book of Family Poems by Belinda Hollyer | Nonfiction Built to Last by David Macaulay Eye to Eye by Steven Jenkins Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes,Ciphers by Paul Janeczko We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson Ick! Yuck! Eew! Our Gross American History by Lois Miner Huey Brick by Brick by Charles Smith Junior Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant | Favorite Authors
Jerry Spinelli Russell Freedman Seymour Simon Leonard Everett Fisher Jack Gantos Roald Dahl Gary Paulsen Louis Sachar Jean Craighead George
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