Dear Family: Name ______Brockton Public Schools School______Reading is an important part of everyday life. Grade ______Brockton Public Schools invite you and your Summer Reading List and Log family to participate in our Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is Reading Log “Be a Reading CHAMPION.” Parent or Guardian 2021 Title Initials Students entering grades Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten can read books from the Recommended Authors List, the Suggested Titles List or students may select a book of their choice.

As a parent or guardian, you may pick books to read together, too. Just record the title of any books your child reads this summer on the reading log and then sign your initials. Look for the log on the back of this brochure or on our website: www.bpsma.org. Send this form back with your child in the fall for a certificate of participation!

We hope you and your family will read this summer and reap all of the wonderful benefits that reading has to offer.

Sincerely, Recommended Reading

Reading logs also available on the Brockton Public for Schools website: www.bpsma.org Students Entering Michael P. Thomas Superintendent of Schools

Pre-Kindergarten ********************************* Recommended websites for parents: Brockton Public Library Summer Schedule & National Parent Teacher Association – Family Guides

www.pta.org/home/family-resources/Family-Guides Kindergarten PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY FOR SUMMER HOURS OF OPERATION OR U.S. Dept. of Education – Reading Tips for Parents CHECK ONLINE AT: www2.ed.gov/parents/read/resources/readingtips/index.html

www.brocktonpubliclibrary.org

Suggested Titles for Students Entering Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten 2021

ABC Multicultural (continuation) A My Name is Alice Jane Bayer Bright Eyes, Brown Skin Cheryl Willis Hudson Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr. ABC, I Like Me! Nancy Carlson Hats, Hats, Hats Ann Morris Cowboys Glen Rounds Afro Bets Cheryl Willis Hudson Knots on a Counting Rope Bill Martin The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper ANTics!:An alphabetical anthology Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe Marsupial Sue John Lithgow Catherine Hepworth Two Eyes, A Nose And A Mouth Roberta Intrater The Story of Johnny Appleseed Aliki The Z Was Zapped Chris Van Allsburg Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Nursery Rhymes Colors Babushka’s Mother Goose Patricia Polacco I Can Read! Books-Level 1 Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? Tana Hoban Chinese Mother Goose Robert Wyndham PreK-Grade One Mary Wore Her Red Dress… Merle Peek Eensy-Weensy Spider Mary Ann Hoberman Danny and the Dinosaur Syd Hoff Mouse Paint Ellen Stoll Walsh A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Little Bear Elsa Minarik Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Lois Ehlert Kady MacDonald-Denton Morris Goes to School Bernard Wiseman Who Said Red? Mary Serfozo Rhyme No More Monsters for Me! Peggy Parish Down By the Bay Raffi Ready, Set, Go! John Stadler Counting Each Peach, Pear, Plum Janet Ahlberg Arctic Fives Arrive Elinor J. Pinczes Eek! There's a Mouse in the House Five Little Monkeys Eileen Christelow Wong Herbert Yee Recommended Picture Book One Hungry Monster Susan Heyboer O’Keefe Authors & Illustrators Ten Black Dots Donald Crews School Edward Ardizzone Jan Brett All Are Welcome Alexandra Penfold Margaret Wise Brown Eve Bunting Fables/Fairy Tales All Ready for School Leone Adelson Virginia Lee Burton Eric Carle Aesop’s Fables Lisbeth Zwerger My First Days of School Jane Hamilton-Merritt Donald Crews Tomie DePaola Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema School Bus Donald Crews Gail Gibbons Tana Hoban I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly G.Brian Karas Timothy Goes to School Rosemary Wells Ezra Jack Keats Arnold Lobel Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Bill Martin Jr. Jack Prelutsky Stone Soup Marcia Brown Who's Going to Take Care of Me? Michelle Magorian Maurice Sendak John Steptoe Families Chris VanAllsburg Judith Viorst Rosemary Wells Vera B.Williams A Chair for My Mother Vera B.Williams Science

ALMA Juana Martinez-Neal A House for a Hermit Crab Eric Carle

Just Grandma and Me Mercer Mayer Weather Words Gail Gibbons Love You Forever Robert N. Munsch Digging Up Dinosaurs Aliki Mama, Do You Love Me? Barbara Joosse Pumpkin, Pumpkin Jeanne Titherington Pop Pop and Me and a Recipe Irene Smalls How Is a Crayon Made? Osbert A. Charles The World Needs More Purple People Over in the Meadow John M. Langstaff Kristen Bell & Benjamin Hart