Talk About It: Why should students read during Berkeley County School District Part of growing as a reader is learning how to think while you read. Ask each the summer? other questions before, during, and after Summer University of Tennessee, Knoxville, reading: faculty members Richard Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen have completed a Reading What was most important about three-year study showing that students what we just read? lose up to three months of learning How did the characters change over every summer—skills they worked hard time? to acquire during the school year. How- ever, the study showed a significantly What was your favorite part of that higher level of reading achievement in section? students who took part in summer reading at home. Did you read anything that might impact your life? How? Allington compares the slide in reading ability to an athlete's fitness. "Just like Does this text remind you of some- hockey players lose some of their skills thing you have read, seen, or heard if they stay off their skates and off the before? How? ice for three months, children who do not read in the summer lose two to three months of reading development," Allington said. Get Caught - from http://www.sciencedaily.com/ Reading: “We read books to find out who we are. What other Set an example by reading in public. people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is Let everyone see you reading a news- an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” paper or browsing through a novel on - Author Ursula Le Guin the beach or beside the pool. Liven up chore time or meal time by taking Read more about it: turns working while one person reads http://intl.kappanmagazine.org/ Theme for Rising English II: aloud a favorite book or an exciting content/85/1/68.short Exploring Worlds and Cultures new novel. Have fun! http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/ article/bridging-summer-reading-gap Fiction Texts such as: Informational Texts such as: The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck (T) *Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown (J) Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafasi (J) The Pearl, John Steinbeck (T) Crossing Over: One Woman’s Escape from Amish Life, Ruth Irene Garrett *Revolution, Jennifer Donnely Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Climbing the Stairs, Padma Venkatraman (E) Filipovic Lost Horizon, James Hilton (T, J) *Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy (E) A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Copper Sun, Sharon Draper (E) Nyaka, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri *Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind, Suzanne Fisher The Themes The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Staples (or others in that series) (E) Fadiman (E) Many of the things you will read and write in The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save English II explore stories of and about other An Ocean Apart, A World Away, Lensey Naimioka Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, Jonathan M. Katz cultures, inviting readers to consider who we are and (E) Red Scarf Girl, Ji-Li Jiang the places we fill in the world. Some of the books on Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kodahata (E) these lists are more challenging than others, but all The Golden Ratio, Mario Livio (E) The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis (E) explore these themes through events (plot), characters, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meet- and conflicts. (and others by this writer) ings, Craig Brown The Life of Pi, Yann Martel (J) *I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak (J) Summer Reading Project Consult with teachers and/or teacher librarians to *Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (and others by this writer) choose two books ( one fiction and one (J) T= Traditional favorites informational) like those on this brochure. With parent *= Mature language or topics. approval of the choices, read the two books over the How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez ( E ) = available on the district e-bookshelf summer. (and others by this author) (J) ( J ) = available on the public library e-bookshelf via http://berkeleylibrarysc.org/ Talk with teachers of HONORS English II, AP Estrella’s Quinceanera, Melin Alegria Language, and AP Literature about which titles from the brochure are required summer reading in addition to Tree Girl, Ben Mikaelsen (J) a second title for a total of two selections Each school Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay (E) will share rewards and expectations for when school A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray (J) starts. (and others in this series) Register for the Berkeley County Library System Keeping Corner, Kashmira Sheth summer program at berkeleylibsc.readsquared.com and Parvana’s Journey, Deborah Ellis read for prizes. Boys Without Names, Kashmira Sheth (E) These books and others like them are available not only in school Mexican Whiteboy, Matt de la Pena (E ) libraries, but also in your public libraries and local book stores. Have a great summer and enjoy the magic of books! The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (T) .