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1 Elementary Summer Reading Program Grade 5 Parent Permission Letter Dear Parents/Guardian, We re excited to introduce you to Brunswick s Summer Reading Program! Attached you will find your child s Summer Reading packet. It describes the program, and explains how it will fit into your child s next school year. We hope that by participating in RACE INTO READING your child will read for pleasure and refine their reading skills as they become lifelong readers. Please sign below to indicate that you have received and reviewed this district requirement. Return this permission sheet to your child s teacher no later than May 21, Please keep the remainder of the packet for use this summer. I,, have read the attached information regarding Brunswick School District s Summer Reading Program. Child s Name:. Entering Grade Level (for the school year) Grade 5

Elementary Summer Reading Program Dear Parents/Guardian: Welcome to the Brunswick City School District s Elementary Summer Reading Program!

Complete ONE graphic organizer of your choice (FICTION or NON-FICTION).

as a guideline for what is expected and indicates the points on which the grade is based Summer reading will be reflected in the first marking period Booklists Brunswick Public Libraries District

2 Elementary Summer Reading Program Dear Parents/Guardian: Welcome to the Brunswick City School District s Elementary Summer Reading Program! Reading is the most important life long skill that we can help our children learn and practice. Requirements: Read or listen to THREE books Complete a reading log entry for each book. Complete ONE graphic organizer of your choice (FICTION or NON-FICTION). Parents are encouraged to read aloud to and with their children Expectations: This is a district-wide requirement Summer reading log and graphic organizer are due by August 28, 2015 The rubric serves as a guideline for what is expected and indicates the points on which the grade is based Summer reading will be reflected in the first marking period Booklists Brunswick Public Libraries District Website: Board of Education receptionist Your school office until June 10 and beginning August 10 Suggestions: Participate in the Public Library Summer Reading Program and use those titles for this program Please understand that the titles listed are just suggested reading Public & school media specialists & teachers are eager to suggest other titles in fiction and non-fiction Reading Log and Graphic Organizer: GOAL: To encourage students to read for pleasure and continue to refine their reading skills in order to become lifelong readers. Attached to this letter OR on Brunswick s website

Summer Reading for Students Entering Fifth Grade 2015 2016 School Year Encourage Your Student to Have Fun Reading This Summer!

One non-fiction book 3. One book of your choice or recommended by the public librarian, school media specialist or teacher.

3 Summer Reading for Students Entering Fifth Grade School Year Encourage Your Student to Have Fun Reading This Summer! Fourth and Fifth Grade students are required to read or listen to three books over the summer. Choose at least one book from each of the three categories below: 1. One fiction book 2. One non-fiction book 3. One book of your choice or recommended by the public librarian, school media specialist or teacher. See instructions on the Summer Reading cover letter concerning the activities. The Medina County Public Library will be able to assist you in your choices. Fun Summer Reading Activities These suggestions can be used to help enhance your family s Summer Reading experience: *Talk about the book you read to your parents and friends *Bike ride to the park and read *Read the map at the zoo or amusement park and the menu at a restaurant *Play a board game *Write your own story *Write a letter to your grandparents, relatives or friends *Visit educational websites: *Go to the library and participate in the summer reading program (has built in MP3 player for kids)

4 My Summer Reading Log Grades 4 5 Reading log is due by August 28, 2015 Name: Grade: Teacher: 1. Book Title: Author: Month Read (circle one): June July August Book s Genre (circle one): Fiction Non-Fiction Parent/Guardian s Signature: 2. Book Title: Author: Month Read (circle one): June July August Book s Genre (circle one): Fiction Non-Fiction Parent/Guardian s Signature: 3. Book Title: Author: Month Read (circle one): June July August Book s Genre (circle one): Fiction Non-Fiction Parent/Guardian s Signature: Parents may use the following questions to discuss the book with your child: Explain in detail the main character(s) in your book. What would you change in the story? Explain using details. What was the message or theme learned in the book? Would you recommend this book to someone? Why or why not? What was the author s purpose (reason) for writing this book?

Elementary Summer Reading Rubric Grades 4 5 Name: Teacher: Date: Teacher Score & Comments Reading Log Three books logged correctly with complete book: Title Author Parent/guardian signature 3 2 1

Title Author Parent/guardian signature OR may be missing three or more parts of reading log Graphic Organizer Completed graphic organizer Graphic organizer is missing some parts Graphic organizer is

5 Elementary Summer Reading Rubric Grades 4 5 Name: Teacher: Date: Teacher Score & Comments Reading Log Three books logged correctly with complete book: Title Author Parent/guardian signature Student Score Two books logged correctly with complete book: Title Author Parent/guardian signature OR may be missing one or two parts of reading log One book logged correctly with complete book: Title Author Parent/guardian signature OR may be missing three or more parts of reading log Graphic Organizer Completed graphic organizer Graphic organizer is missing some parts Graphic organizer is missing many parts Content of Organizer Effort/Quality All components in fiction or non-fiction graphic organizer completed in full detail and shows much understanding Wrote answers doing your personal best writing; paper is neat Graphic organizer completed but few specific details are given and shows some evidence of understanding Wrote answers showing good effort; paper is mostly neat Minimal details given on graphic organizer. It contains some missing parts, not complete explanations or oneword answers Little effort was given during writing; paper is not neat Please attach this rubric to your reading log and graphic organizer. Choose the FICTION or NON-FICTION Graphic Organizer that matches your story.

6 Graphic Organizer FICTION Name: Date: Title: Setting: Draw a Picture Characters: Draw a Picture Problem: Draw a Picture Events: Ending:

7 Graphic Organizer Non-Fiction Name: Date: Title: Main Idea: Supporting Detail: Draw a Picture Supporting Detail: Draw a Picture Supporting Detail: Draw a Picture Conclusion

8 Suggested Reading & Author List for Students ENTERING 4 th & 5 th Grades Grades 4 and 5 Book Titles Author Lexile Score A Dog Called Kitty Wallace, Bill 710L All The Lovely Bad Ones Downing Hahn, Mary 670L American Tall Tales Stoutenbery, Adrian 910L Anastasia's Album Brewster, Hugh 1010L Artemis Fowl Colfer, Eoin 600L Baseball Fever Hurwitz, Johanna 760L Be A Perfect Person Manes, Stephen 720L Because Of Winn Dixie DiCamillo, Kate 610L Beetles, Lightly Toasted Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 950L Ben & Me Lawson, Robert 1010L Beezus and Ramona Cleary, Beverly 780L Brighty of the Grand Canyon Henry, Marguerite 880L Bunnicula: A Rabbut Tale of Mystery Howe, Deborah 700L Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol Ryrie 890L Call It Courage Sperry, Armstrong 830L Call Of The Wolves Berger, Melvin 830L Charlotte s Web White, E.B. 680L Chocolate Fever Smith, Robert Kimmel 680L Chocolate Touch Catling, Patrick 770L Cowboys: Roundup on an American Ranch Anderson, Joan 990L Curious George Takes a Job Rey, H.A. 570L Darnell Rock Reporting Myers, Walter Dean 710L Dear Dr. Bell Your Friend, Helen Keller St. George, Judith 1180L Diary of a Wimpy Kid Kinney, Jeff 950L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules Kinney, Jeff 910L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw Kinney, Jeff 970L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Days Kinney, Jeff 1010L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Ugly Truth Kinney, Jeff no rating Don't Know Much about the Pilgrims Davis, Kenneth 760L Dragon War Yep, Laurence 850L Duel of the Ironclads: The Monitor vs. the Virginia O'Brien, Robert 970L Dust Bowl Heinrichs, Ann 750L Einstein Anderson, Gigantic Ants & Other Simon, Seymour 680L Cases Einstein Anderson, Wings of Darkness Simon, Seymour 730L Einstein Anderson, Howling Dog & Other Simon, Seymour 760L Cases Einstein Anderson, Invisible Man & Other Cases Simon, Seymour 830L

9 Einstein Anderson, Time Machine & Other Simon, Seymour 620L Cases Einstein Anderson, Mysterious Lights & Other Simon, Seymour 780L Cases Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan 750L Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail Kudlinski, Kathleen V. 500L Faithful Friend San Souci, Robert D. 850L Fifth Grade: Here Comes Trouble McKenna, Colleen 710L Fire in the Sky Gunderson, J. 490L Flunking of Joshua T. Bates Shreve, Susan 890L Ghost Sitter Griffin, Peni 700L Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Turner, Pamela S. 910L Apes Great Chicago Fire Nobleman, Marc Tyler 960L Half Magic Eager, Edward 830L Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh, Louis 760L Heat Lupica, Mike 940L Help, I'm a Prisoner in the Library Clifford, Eth 630L Homer Price McCloskey, Robert 1000L Houdini Box Selznick, Brian 840L How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas 650L If You Lived When There Was Slavery in Kamma, Anne 800L America? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Lord, Bette Bao 730L Inside the Hindenburg Majoor, Mirelle 1100L Island of the Blue Dolphin O'Dell, Scott 1000L Jaguar Smith, Roland 690L Jar of Dreams Uchida, Yoshiko 970L Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Gantos, Jack 970L Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther 840L Johnstown Flood Nobleman, Marc Tyler 930L Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to Bierman, Carol 750L America Julie of the Wolves George, Jean Craighead 860L Leepike Ridge Wilson, N.D. 780L Louise, Soccer Star Krensky, Stephen 470L Mick Harte Was Here Park, Barbara 730L Monkey Island Fox, Paula 830L More Stories to solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World Shannon, George Mr. Lincoln's Drummer Wisler, G. Clifton 800L Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater, Richard 910L 810L

10 Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH O'Conner, Robert C. 790L Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Steptoe, John 720L My Brother Sam Is Dead Collier, James, L 770L My Daniel Conrad, Pam 780L My Side of the Mountain Craighead George, Jean 810L Navajo Code Talkers Aaseng, Nathan 1170L Notes from a Midnight Driver Sonnenblick, Jordan 930L Nothing Wrong with a Three Legged Dog McNamee, Graham 530L Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade DeClements, Barthe 600L Number the Stars Lowry, Lois 670L On Board the Titanic: What Was It Like When Tanaka, Shelley 800L The Great Liner Sank? One Eyed Cat Fox, Paula 1000L Orphan Trains Flanagan, Alice K. 1010L Owls in the Family Mowat, Farley 980L Passage to Freedom? The Sugihara Story Mochizuki, Ken AD670L Penny from Heaven Holm, Jennifer 730L Pick of the Litter Wallace, Bill 680L Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, Astrid 870L Polar: The Titanic Bear Spedden, Daisy 1010L Pony Express Kinney Williams, J 1060L Return of Meteor Boy Boniface, William 900L Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred D. 920L Ramona s World Cleary, Beverly 750L Running out of time Haddix, Margaret Peterson 730L Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Coerr, Eleanor 630L Secrets of Dripping Fang: Treachery and Batrayal of Jolly Days Greenburg, Dan Seven Spiders Spinning Maguire, Gregordy 830L Seven Wonders of Sassafras Spring Birney, Betty G. 790L Shiloh Naylor, Phyllis R. 890L Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth George 770L Someone Named Eva Wolf, Joan M. 820L Song of the Trees Taylor, Mildred D. 710L Standoff Trumbauer, Lisa GN570L Stealing Home Stolz, Mary 750L Stories to Solve Shannon, George 810L Storm of the Century Peters, Stephanie GN550L Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad McMullan, Kate Sunwing Oppel, Kenneth 680L 750L 630L

11 Swindle Korman, Gordon 710L Tale Of Despereaux DiCamillo, Kate 670L Teammates Goldenbock, Peter 930L The Best School Year Ever Robinson, Barbara 1020L The Boxcar Children, Animal Shelter Warner, Gertrude Chandler 700L Mystery The Boxcar Children, Chocolate Sundae Warner, Gertrude Chandler 690L Mystery The Boxcar Children, Secret of the Mask Warner, Gertrude Chandler 670L The Boxcar Children, Rock n Roll Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 660L The Boxcar Children, Poison Frog Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 660L The Boxcar Children, Giant Yo Yo Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 650L The Boxcar Children, Pizza Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 640L The Broccoli Tapes Slepian, Jan 630L The Brooklyn Bridge Mann, Elizabeth 820L The Buried City of Pompeii: What It Was Like When Vesuvius Exploded Tanaka, Shelley The Castle in the Attic Winthrop, Elizabeth 750L The Comeback Dog Thomas, Jane Resh 810L The Cricket in Times Square Selden, George 780L The Dinosaur of Waterhouse Hawkins Kerley, Barbara AD550L The Door in the Wall DeAngeli, Marguerite 990L The Egypt Game Keatley Snyder, Zilpha 1010L The Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China O'Connor, Jane The Enormous Egg Butterworth, Oliver 900L The Fear Place Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 810L The Flight of the Silver Turtle Fardell, John 990L The Great Brain Fitzgerald, John D. 840L The House of Dies Drear Hamilton, Virginia 670L The House With a Clock in Its Walls Bellairs, John 800L The Incredible Journey Brunford, Sheila 1320L The Indian in the Cupboard Banks, Lynn Reid 780L The Lightning Thief Riordan, Rick 740L The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis, C.S. 940L The Many Rides of Paul Revere Giblin, James 1060L The Red Cap Wisler, G. Clifton 820L The Scrambled States Of America Keller, Laurie AD510L The Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth George 770L The Story of Money Maestro, Betsy 890L The War With Grandpa Smith, Robert Kimmel 640L The Westing Game Raskin, Ellen 750L 880L 980L

The Whipping Boy Fleshman, Sid 570L The Wish Giver Brittain, Bill 720L Tibet: Through the Red Box Sis, Peter AD870L True Lies Shannon, George 660L Tuskegee Airmen Brooks, Phillip 1050L Underground

12 The Whipping Boy Fleshman, Sid 570L The Wish Giver Brittain, Bill 720L Tibet: Through the Red Box Sis, Peter AD870L True Lies Shannon, George 660L Tuskegee Airmen Brooks, Phillip 1050L Underground Railroad Heinrichs, Ann 820L Voices of the Alamo Garland, Sherry 970L Weedflower Kadohata, Cynthia 750L Welcome to Addy's World, 1864 Sinnott, Susan 1000L Welcome to Josefina's World, 1824 La Pierre, Yvette 990L Welcome to Samantha's World Gourley, Catherine 920L Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls, Wilson 700L White Star: A Dog on the Titanic Crisp, Marty 780L Who Was Harriet Tubman? McDonough, Yona Zeldis 650L Who was Harry Houdini? Sutherland, Tui T. 780L Within Reach: My Everest Story Pfetzer, Mark 970L Suggested Authors for Students Entering 4 th or 5 th Grades Bloom, Judy Byars, Betsy Cleary, Beverly Clements, Andrew Creech, Sharon Dahl, Ronald Fleischman, Paul Fritz, Jean Gutman, Dan Downing Hahn, Mary Hesse, Karen Revised: 2015 Kinney, Jeff Kjelgaard, Jim Konigsburg, E.L. Levine, Ellen Patterson, Katherine Paulsen, Gary Sachar, Louis Soto, Gary Spinelli, Jerry White, E.B. Ingalls Wilder, Laura

Your child reads best independently at reading level:

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