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1 Dear SCS Parents, The summer reading program at SCS is a way to develop in your child a love for reading and to maintain the current level of skills that your child has worked to achieve during the school year. We hope that you will enthusiastically support this program and make reading a daily part of your child s summer. Happy reading! ************************************************************************************* How To Help Your Child Select A Book: YOU are the key in helping your child select summer reading books which will be of high interest and will also be at your child s independent reading level. The independent reading level is the level at which your child can comfortably read and understand material without adult supervision. Please use these guidelines in helping your child select appropriate reading material. Find books about your favorite topic or hobby. Look for books by a favorite author/illustrator. Browse through the book to see if the illustrations are interesting. Read the book summary on the back cover or book jacket. Choose a book that is at your independent reading level. Use the Five Finger Rule. Choose a book that you think you would like to read. Open to any page and begin reading. As you come to words you can t pronounce or don t understand, put up a finger. If you put up five fingers put the book back. It s too hard for you.

2 Required Summer Reading and Reading Record for Fourth Grade Name: Students entering 4 th grade should read 3 books. Keep a record of the books you read in the spaces below. Notice the required written activities to complete. This form and the THREE completed activities should come with you on the first day of 4 th grade. #1 and #2--Books from the Fourth Grade Book List Book 1: Title: Author: Book 2: Title: Author: Activity #1: On a separate sheet of paper write ONE paragraph (at least 50 words) comparing one of the characters in Book 1 with a different character in Book 2. How are they alike? How are they different? Activity #2: On a separate sheet of paper, draw a picture showing one scene from one of the two books. #3--Book of your choice: Read a book of your choice. Title: Author: Activity #3: For this book write a paragraph (at least 50 words) telling why you chose this book, if you would recommend it, why or why not, and if you will choose books like it again, why or why not. Parent Signature

3 INCOMING FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST *Denotes more challenging books Author Abernathy, Alta *Alexander, Lloyd Armstrong, William H. Avi Bagnold, Enid Beatty, Patricia Brink, Carol Ryrie Brown, John Mason Bruchac, Joseph *Burnett, Frances Burnford,Sheila Butterworth, Oliver Carlson, Natalie Savage Caudill, Rebecca Dahl, Roald DeJong, Meindert Edwards, Julie Enright, Elizabeth Enright, Elizabeth Estes, Eleanor Farley, Walter Field, Rachel Fischer, Dorothy Canfield Fritz, Jean George, Jean Craighead Gilbreth, Frank Gilbreth, Frank Godden, Rumer Hamilton, Virginia Henry, Marguerite *Henty, G.A. Hodges, Margaret Hutchens, Paul Jacques, Brian Jones III, Douglas M. Keene, Carolyn Kehret, Peg Kjelgaard, Jim Konigsburg, E.S. L'Engle, Madeline Lenski, Lois Lawton, Wendy Leininger, Tracy M. Title Bud & Me: The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King, others Sounder Poppy National Velvet Bonanza Girl, Sarah and Me and the Lady from the Sea Christian Heroes: Then and Now (Series) Heroes of History (Series) Benjamin Franklin: A Useful Life (Heroes Series) Baby Island, Magical Melons Daniel Boone(Sterling Point History Series) Arrow Over the Door A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden The Incredible Journey The Enormous Egg Family Under the Bridge Tree of Freedom James and the Giant Peach Wheel on the School, The Mandy Gone-Away Lake Return to Gone-Away The Moffats series The Black Stallion series Calico Bush Understood Betsy And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Others by Fritz My Side of the Mountain (or others) Cheaper by the Dozen Belles on Their Toes The Doll s House, The Story of Holly and Ivy M.C. Higgins, The Great King of the Wind (and others) Any Book by Henty The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur Sugar Creek Gang series Redwall Series Dutch Color, Huguenot Garden, Scottish Seas Nancy Drew Mysteries Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Big Red (or others) From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler A Wrinkle in Time, and others Strawberry Girl series Almost Home, The Captive Princess, The Tinker s Daughter, others Alone Yet Not Alone

4 Author Title Levine, Gail Carson Ella Enchanted, Princess Tales (volumes 1-3) *Lofting, Hugh Voyages of Dr. Doolittle (and others) Lovelace, Maud Hart Betsy-Tacy series *MacDonald, George At the Back of the North Wind McGraw, Eloise Jarvis The Golden Goblet, Mara Daughter of the Nile McSwigan, Marie Snow Treasure *Merrill, Jean Pushcart War, The *Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables (series) Moody, Ralph Little Britches Series Morrow, Honore On to Oregon! Nesbit, Edith Five Children and It Naylor, Phyllis R. Shiloh series Nolan, Peggy Spy Who Came in from the Sea, The North, Sterling George Washington: Frontier Colonel (Sterling Point History Series), Rascal Norton, Mary The Borrowers series *O Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH O Dell, Scott Sarah Bishop Pearce, Philippa Tom's Midnight Garden Peck, Richard Fair Weather, A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder *Porter, Eleanor Pollyanna (unabridged) Prentiss, Elizabeth The Little Preacher Richter, Conrad Light in the Forest, The Robertson, Keith Henry Reed, Inc., and others Rue, Nancy The Williamsburg Years or other series Sawyer, Ruth Roller Skates Seredy, Kate Philomena, The Good Master, The Singing Tree Sharp, Margery Rescuers, The Sidney, Margaret Five Little Peppers and How They Grew series Speare, Elizabeth G. Calico Captive Spyri, Johanna Heidi St. John, Patricia Rainbow Garden, others Stanley, George E. Any Book from the Childhood of Famous American Series Stewart, George R. Pioneers Go West, The Streatfeild, Noel Ballet Shoes, Movie Shoes, Theater Shoes Sutcliff, Rosemary Outcast, The Shining Company, Knight s Fee Taylor, Sydney All-of-a-Kind-Family Terhune, Albert Payson Lad: A Dog Tiner, John Hudson Biographies of scientists and historical figures (Series) Vernon, Louise A. Ink on His Fingers, Thunderstorm in Church Wheeler, Opal Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, etc. White, E.B. Stuart Little Williamson, Denise River of Danger Wilson, Douglas Blackthorn Winter, Susan Creek Wilson, N.D. Leepike Ridge Wilson, N.D. 100 Cupboards series Winterfield, Henry Any Title Wojciechowska, Maia Shadow of a Bull Yates, Elizabeth Carolina's Courage

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