FIFTH GRADE SUMMER READING
PROJECT
1. Select a book from the list. If you would like to
preview a book summary, to see if you’d like the
book, visit the Tulsa County Library website
(put the title in the catalog search) or Amazon
books.
2. You will need the following items at the START
of the book:
● The book ☺
● 20 index 4x6 index cards (blank on one side
and lined on the other side) and 2
rubberbands
● A pencil or a blue, or blac, ink pen
● 2 pieces of notebook paper You will need these items when you FINISH the
book:
● A container that you will store your objects in
( explained below)
● Coloring items or things to decorate your
container
● 5 items that represent things/events/people
in your book (explained below)
3. As you read the book, please do the following:
● Write down 10 different words that are new to
you. Pic words that you do not already
know! Play a detective and be on the look out
for unknown words THROUGHOUT the book!
Write these words on a piece of notebook
paper. It is a good idea to do this as you read.
It will make it easier!
● On SEPARATE index cards write the word on
the PLAIN side of the index card. Write it nice
and big in the middle. We want to see the
word and admire it! ☺ On the bac side (which is lined) write the defnition of the
word. Please use a dictionary or
Vocabulary.com. No guesses allowed! Please
write NEATLY!
● Put a rubberband around your 10
vocabulary cards when completed.
● As you read, on a sheet of notebook paper,
write 10 good quesons. If you were a teacher
giving a quiz what kinds of quesons would
you as about your book? Write the queson
on the BLANK side of the index card (in the
middle). On the bac side of that same card
(lined side) write the answer. Please write
NEATLY!
● Put a rubberband around the 10 queson
cards when completed.
● Choose a container that you will decorate to
tell about your book and also to store your
items and index cards. Some ideas are: large mailing envelopes,
oatmeal round containers, regular-sized
cereal box, shoebox.
● Pic 5 items that represent things/events,
people in your book. Example: If I was doing
a project about Charlotte’s Web I might
include a picture of a barn, a plasc sider, a
stuffed pig, a winner’s ribbon, and a picture
of a farm boy. Make sure the items will ft in
your container!
● Decorate your container with a scene from
the book or something about the book. Be
creative! Ideas: you can draw and color, paint,
do a collage, use scers or internet pictures,
use a combination of things.
● Include the following ON your container:
Title of the book, the author, your name.
Please put this where it is easily located!
● Put the index cards and the objects in your
fnished container. Bring it to school on the
FIRST DAY. We will be sharing our projects. I am looking forward to seeing you and
hearing about your project!
Here is how I will be grading (I will use a grading rubric):
● Neatness
● Creativity with container
● 10 vocabulary index cards completed (both
sides)
● 10 queson index cards completed (both
sides)
● 5 objects
● Following directions
● Title, author, and student name on project
● Prepared on the day due
● Points for sharing aloud If you have any quesons, please feel free to contact me by my school email: [email protected].
Have a great summer! Keep on reading! ☺
Mrs. Marsh
BOOK LIST
Mrs. Frisy and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C.
O’Brien
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’ Engle
The Wesng Game by Ellen Rasin
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D.
Taylor
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead
George
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Crisin by AVI
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbric
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes