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Name: Date: Grade 5 Summer Reading Activity Your child reads best independently at reading level: Summer Reading Directions: Reading during the summer will help your child maintain or improve their

1 Name: Date: Grade 5 Summer Reading Activity Your child reads best independently at reading level: Summer Reading Directions: Reading during the summer will help your child maintain or improve their reading ability. The books suggested for your child s summer reading are available in many public libraries and bookstores. Choose a fictional book that sparks your interest. Please take sticky notes so you can keep track of your thoughts on what you read. Sticky notes should be taped onto a lined piece of paper and brought in with your reflection activity. Choose one book and complete the reflection activity. Please bring your reflection activity and your sticky notes with you by:. Happy Reading! Mrs. Hart

2 Name: Date: Book Title: Grade 5 Reading Activity Summer Reading Reflection: Reflection Stems Directions: Reflect on each section of the story ( beginning, middle, and end ) using one of each of the sentence starters given below. Beginning Middle End 1. This story reminds me of.. 2. When I first read this.. 3. Some people think this story is about.. 4. The author s message appears to be.. 5. I was surprised by.. But I wonder.. But after reading further I noticed.. But I think this story is really about.. I came to this conclusion because.. I didn t think.. This story left me thinking.. So now I believe.. After reading this story, I came to the conclusion that is was about.. This made me think.. But now I understand that because.. Please type or write your detailed paragraph which includes examples/details from the text on a lined piece of paper. Please include the title of your book and its author on your page.

3 Summer Reading Suggestions by Reading Level - Please choose a book close to your independent level. You may read ANY book that is your level that you have not read before. Level P Ellen Tebbitts by Beverly Cleary Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl Howliday Inn by James Howe The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith Emily s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli Children of the Fire by Harriette G. Robinet Level Q Bunnicula by James Howe The Big Wave by Pearl Buck Just Juice by Karen Hesse Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume The Toilet Paper Tigers by Gordon Korman Mr. Popper s Penguins by Richard Atwater James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville Champ by Marcia Thornton Jones Level R The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar Frindle by Andrew Clements Hatchet by Brian Paulsen How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman The Landry News by Andrew Clements Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan Strider by Beverly Cleary The Report Card by Andrew Clements Level S Brave Irene by William Steig The Cricket in Time Square by George Selden From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty B. Lord Matilda by Roald Dahl Poppy by Avi Taking Sides by Gary Soto Morning Girl by Michael Dorris The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville

4 Abel s Island by William Steig Level T Blubber by Judy Blume Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett Love That Dog by Sharon Creech Sounder by William Armstrong Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan Level U Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes Jacob I Have Loved by K. Paterson Julie of the Wolves by Jean George Onion John by Joseph Krumgold Tangerine by Edward Bloor A View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Di Camillo Level V Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech The Cay by Theodore Taylor Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech Dogsong by Gary Paulsen Drylongso by Virginia Hamilton The Ghost Belonged to Me by R. Peck Holes by Louis Sachar A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements Crash by Jerry Spinelli Level W Bone Series by Jeff Smith The Shadow Thieves Series by Ursu Dragon Cauldron Series by Laurence Yep The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe series by C.S Lewis Orphan Train series by Joan Lowery Three Times Lucky by Shiela Turnage Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Wings series by Yolen, Jane & Nolan Nixon Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland Witches by Roald Dahl

GRADE FOUR SUMMER READING LIST 2018

GRADE FOUR SUMMER READING LIST 2018 Dear Rising Fourth Graders, June 1, 2018 We hope you will plan to go to the public library often this summer to select books that interest you and give you information about historical events and people