First Grade Reading List
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First Grade Summer Assignment List One of the most important things you can do for your child is to get in the habit of reading to or listening to them read aloud each night. The summer is a perfect time to do this! Suggestions for Great Read-Aloud Books My Lucky Day Keiko Kasza Summer Assignment Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Don’t forget to practice your math facts using The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Mathletics at https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Numeroff and practice your language arts skills by using All the Colors of the Earth Shelia Hamanaka i-Ready at https://login.i-ready.com/. Silly Sally Audrey Wood Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes All current students have a username and password. Ten Red Apples Pat Hutchins New students will be assigned a login when school In the Small, Small Pond Denise Fleming begins. There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer Access to Destiny Authors for Fictional Reading Parents can access Destiny to look up books in our Frank Asch Audrey Wood Media Center. To access Destiny, go to: Margaret Wise Brown Eric Carle http://aca.follettdestiny.com. Mo Willems Denise Fleming Leo Lionni Mercer Mayer Accelerated Reader List Laura Numeroff Dr. Seuss To find out if books are on the Accelerated Reader List, go to: http://www.arbookfind.com. Geisel Award Winning Books for Beginning Readers You are (Not) Small Anna Kang Waiting is Not Easy! Mo Willems Mr. Putter and Tabby Cynthia Rylant Turn the Page Suggestions for Non-Fiction Reading Sports Biography series Bob Kirkpatrick Our Animal World series Heather Adamson Historical Figure series Pamela Walker Animal Detectives series Rosie Albright Suggestions for Independent Readers Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne Nate the Great Majorie Weinman Sharmat Cam Jansen David A. Adler A to Z Mysteries Ron Roy George and Martha series James Marshall Second Grade Summer Assignment List Fiction Summer Assignment The Day the Crayons Quit Drew Daywalt Get Ready for Second Grade Amber Brown Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Officer Buckle and Gloria Peggy Rathmann Mathletics at Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready Jigsaw Jones mysteries James Preller at https://login.i-ready.com/. Horrible Harry series Ready, Freddy! series All current students have a username and password. Mercy Watson series New students will be assigned a login when school Nate the Great series begins. Cam Jansen series Boxcar Children series Frog and Toad series Magic Tree House series Math Facts A to Z Mysteries series Marvin Redpost series Additional skills to review over the summer would be basic addition and subtraction facts. In second grade, Non-Fiction The Magic School Bus series we assess the students weekly on their speed and National Geographic Readers series accuracy of the basic math facts. Time for Kids biographies Animals at Risk series Michael Portman Reading Information Butterflies series Nic Bishop Let’s-Read-and-Find Science 2 series Franklyn Branley As you know, each child’s reading levels develop at Junior Buddy series Juliana Hatkoff, different rates. Some of these titles or authors may Isabella Hatkoff and Craig Hatkoff seem too easy or too difficult for your child. Please Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? Roberta Edwards encourage your child to read this summer by (and other books in this series) choosing appropriate reading material and read as Hungry Plants Mary Batten much as possible together. If your child picks a book (and other Step-Into-Reading Step 3 and 4) you think may be too hard, have him/her read a full page aloud to you. If there are five or more mistakes Religion while reading, the book is probably too difficult. If If Jesus Came to My House Joan G. Thomas there are less than five errors, the book should be appropriate. Read as many books as you can this You Are Special Max Lucado summer. Please read both fiction and nonfiction What is God Like? Beverly Lewis books. All children will be using the Accelerated Reader Program in Second Grade. Math Tyrannosaurus Math Michelle Markel A Very Improbable Story: A Math Adventure Edward Einhorn Full House: An Invitation to Fractions Dayle Ann Dodds Third Grade Summer Assignment List Fiction Books Sloppy Copy Slipup D. DiSalvo Summer Assignment Roxie and the Hooligans P. Naylor Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco J. Repka Don’t forget to practice your math facts using The Incredible Book Eating Boy O. Jeffers Mathletics at The Quest Begins (Seekers, Book 1) E. Hunter https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student and practice your language arts skills by using i-Ready One Well: The Story of Water on Earth R. Strauss at https://login.i-ready.com/. Tales for Very Picky Eaters Josh Schneider Waiting for the Magic PatriciaMacLachan All current students have a username and password. Wild River P.J. Petersen New students will be assigned a login when school Jake and Lily Jerry Spinelli begins. Gone Fishing Tamara Wissinger Flora and Ulysses Kate DiCamillo Reading Information Waiting for the Magic Patricia MacLachan As part of your summer assignments, we hope you will Wild River P.J. Petersen enjoy selecting books from this list to read over the Jake and Lily Jerry Spinelli summer. We have attempted to include books that Gone Fishing Tamera Wissinger cover a wide range of subject matter and themes, both Timmy Failure series Stephen Pastis fiction and non-fiction. Many of the fiction books are Calvin Coconut series Graham Salisbury about issues that are important to 3rd graders, such as Emily Windsnap series Liz Kessler friendship, school, sports, and family. Whatever After series Sarah Mlynowski We will be reading several non-fiction books, and Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel series Nikki Grimes students will need to be familiar with the features of I Survived series Lauren Tarshis this genre. Try to find something you have never read Any books by Beverly Cleary to enjoy! Each new third grader must read 2 books Any books by Roald Dahl that he/she has not previously read from this list, one Any books by Matt Christopher fiction and one non-fiction, of their choice. We will be Non-Fiction Books using these books for activities the first few weeks of school. Change It! Solids, Liquids, Gases & You Mason Changing Forms Peter Riley Have a great summer, and keep on reading! Changing Materials Chris Oxlade Me…Jane Mc Donnell Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! Winter & Hawkes Ron’s Big Mission, Rose Blue Naden & Tate Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 Brian Floca Here Come the Girl Scouts! Corey & Hooper Balloons over Broadway Melissa Sweet The Noisy Paintbox Barb Rosenstock Jet Plane: How it Works Davis Macaulay Chicken Soup, Boots Maira Kalman Fireboat: The heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey Maira Kalman Fourth Grade Summer Assignment List Nonfiction Summer Reading List *St. Augustine Summer Assignment Francis E. Ruffin Reading Level: 3.5 *Florida Don’t forget to practice your math facts using Sarah Tieck Reading Level: 3.8 Mathletics at *Everglades Jean Craighead George Reading Level: 4.0 https://community.mathletics.com/signin#/student *Sunken Treasure and practice your language arts skills by using Gail Gibbons Reading Level: 4.2 i-Ready at https://login.i-ready.com/. *Life in St. Augustine Sally Senzell Isaacs Reading Level: 4.4 *Florida Manatees: Warm Water Miracles All current students have a username and Meish Goldish Reading Level: 4.6 password. New students will be assigned a login *Kennedy Space Center when school begins. Timothy Gaffney Reading Level: 4.6 *Florida Panthers: Struggle for Survival William Caper Reading Level: 4.8 *Florida Reading Information Paul Joseph Reading Level: 4.8 All incoming fourth graders are asked to *Castillo de San Marcos Charles Maynard Reading Level: 5.2 participate in the summer reading program. *Into Wild Florida Please read at least one of the books from the Elaine Pascoe Reading Level: 5.3 nonfiction and fiction lists below. For the *The Old Fort at St. Augustine nonfiction book, pretend you are a reporter and Keli Sipperly Reading Level: 6.0 write at least 10 sentences answering “who/what, Any Who Was/Is or Where Was Book Series where, when, how and why” about the novel. For the fiction novel, create a new book cover for the Novels and Stories novel including title, author, picture and at least a *Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L. Holm Reading Level 3.7 10 sentence summary of the novel. Most of the The Lemonade War Series listed books are Accelerated Reader books and Jacqueline Davies Reading Level 4.1 you will be able to test on any of these books Percy Jackson or Kane Chronicles series Rick Riordan Reading Level 4.7 when you return to school. Books marked with an *Hoot/Chomp/Flush/Scat (4 separate titles) * also have a Florida connection. These books Carl Hiassen Reading Level 5.0 may not be readily available in a library or book Spiderwick Chronicles series store, but they are available for purchase at Tony DiTerlizzi Reading Level 4.3 Amazon.com The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo Reading Level 4.4 *Blown Away! Joan Hiatt Harlow Reading Level 4.3 *Voices in St. Augustine, Trouble on the St. John’s River, Adventures on Amelia Island, Jane R. Wood Reading Level 4.1 – 4.9 *Manatee Blues Laurie Halse Anderson Reading Level 4.1 *A Land Remembered – Volume 1 & 2 Patrick D.