<p> Rising Third Grade Summer Reading List</p><p>Some Ways to Enjoy Reading:</p><p>Listen to a book being read aloud.</p><p>Take turns reading to a friend or parent.</p><p>Read the book by yourself and tell someone about your favorite parts.</p><p>Place a Post-it with a heart on it on parts of a story you love.</p><p>Record yourself reading the story out aloud on an iPad or iPhone. Then let your friend or parent listen to it</p><p>Check out a poetry book and make copies of your favorite poems. Read the poems out aloud. Sing them too! Write what the poem makes you feel.</p><p>3rd Grade Summer Reading Possibilities:</p><p>(students can use this list in addition to the one posted on the portal)</p><p>The Secrets of Droon Series by Tony Abbott</p><p>Cam Jansen series by David Adler</p><p>Finders Keepers? A True Story in India by Robert Arnett</p><p>Animal Ark by Ben Baglio</p><p>The Blue Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer</p><p>Freckle Juice by Judy Blume</p><p>Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth by Robert Burleigh</p><p>The Magician’s Boy by Susan Cooper</p><p>Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin</p><p>Owen and Mzee by Isabella Hatkoff</p><p>The World’s Greatest Elephant by Ralph Helfer</p><p>The Gold Miner’s Daughter by Jackie Hopkins</p><p>I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes</p><p>Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Bringing Asha Home by Uma Krishnaswami</p><p>The Boy on Fairfield Street by Kathleen Krull</p><p>Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale of How Fire Came to the People by Jonathan London</p><p>Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry</p><p>The Buddha’s Diamonds by Carolyn Marsden</p><p>If You Decide to Go the Moon by Faith McNulty</p><p>Wonder by R.J.Palacio</p><p>Mrs.Katz & Tush by Patricia Polacco</p><p>Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco</p><p>Viva Mexico!: A Story of Benito Juarez and Cinco de Mayo by Argentina Palacios</p><p>Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne</p><p>One World, Many Religions: The Way We Worship by Mary Pope Osborne</p><p>Rooster Prince & Breslov by Ann Redish</p><p>Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer</p><p>Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say</p><p>Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol</p><p>Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh</p><p>Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox</p><p>Hiroshima by Laurence Yep Peacemakers:</p><p>During the year, third graders will learn about peacemakers around the world and their role as activists and pacifists. Here are names of a few peacemakers we will be learning about. Have conversations with your child about these peacemakers and their roles as a pacifist/activist after reading about them in biographies or articles online. This will help her/him prepare our study on peacemakers beginning in the fall. </p><p> 14th Dalai Lama</p><p> Dorothy Day</p><p> Mahatma Gandhi</p><p> Martin Luther King Jr.</p><p> Mother Teresa  Susan B. Anthony</p><p> Tegla Loroupe</p>