Local Libraries KCSD Elementary Summer Reading 2014 Grades 1 & 2 Bayard Taylor Memorial Library 216 East State Street Kennett Square, PA 19348 610-444-2702 Hockessin Library 1023 Valley Road Hockessin, DE 19707 302-239-5160 Avon Grove Library PO Box 100 117 Rosehill Avenue West Grove, PA 19390 Check out bookadvenutre.org The state of Pennsylvania recommends that students read a minimum of 25 books per school year. Many children read well over 100. The research is clear that children who don't read during the summer can lose up to three months of reading progress and that loss has a cumulative, long-term effect. The Goals for Summer Reading: To encourage individual exploration of new topics and self-study To encourage students to choose new authors and genres To reduce a potential summer learning gap To develop the habit and joy of lifelong reading and learning To further develop essential vocabulary and background knowledge
Comprehension Strategies Reading is more than saying the words or reading until the end of the book. To be successful readers, children need to understand what they are reading. Research shows there are strategies we can help children with as they read. Make Connections: Readers constantly make connections as they read. What does this book remind you of? Have you experienced any of the events or situations in this book? What do you know about the book s topic? Visualize: Readers create pictures in their minds as they read. What do you picture as you read this paragraph? When reading this story did you make pictures in your head? How did these pictures help you understand the story better? Question: When readers question the text before during, and after they read, they attend more closely to the text, clarify meaning, make predictions, and focus their attention on what is important. What do you think will happen? Why do you suppose? What do you think? What do you wonder? How come? What would have happened if? I wonder why the author? I wonder where we could look to find out more about? Infer: Inferring happens when readers can take what they know and what is written in the book to read between the lines. Why did you think that would happen? Why did the author write the story in that way? Why do you think the character feels that way? Why did the character do that? Determine Importance: Readers need to distinguish between what information in a text is most important versus what information is interesting but not necessary for understanding. What kind of message is the author sending? What are the main ideas? What is just interesting without being important? What can I do when I come to a word I don t know? (Decoding strategies) Look at the picture Think about what makes sense Reread it from the beginning Get your mouth ready and say the first sound Look for words you know to help you with words you don t know Sound it out c- a - t cat Chunk the word into parts Skip it and come back Ask for help
BOOK SUGGESTIONS Understanding that all children have different interests and abilities, we have provided some possible book titles below. We encourage you to have your child read, read, and read some more during the summer. As you are selecting books for your child to read this summer, you can use the AR Book Find website to determine if this book is in your child s AR Zone. The AR Zone guides your child into a just-right book! The AR Book Find website can be accessed at www.arbookfind.com. Fiction-Beginning to Read Books Frog and Toad (series) Arnold Katy Duck (series) Capucilli Penny (series) Henkes Pinkalicious (series) Kann Katie Woo, Where Are You? (series) Manushkin Borownie and Peal (series) Rylant Jon Scieszka s Trucktown (series) Gantos Amanda Pig (series) Van Leeuwen Eelephatn and Piggie (series) Willems Fiction-Chapter Books Flat Stanley (series) Brown Mercy Watson DiCamillo Just Grace Harper Ballpark Mysteries (series) Kelly Stink McDonald Clementine Pennypacker Informational Books About Space Carson Coral Reefs Chin Underground Evans From Seed to Plant Gibbons Abe Lincoln Crosses A Creek Hokinson Bird Talk Judge Seeing Symmetry Leedy Astronaut Handbook McCarthy Eight Days Gone McReynolds An Island Grows Schaefer Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature Sidman Diego Rivera: His World and Ours Tonatiuh Insect Detective Voake Delores Huerta Warren Folktales, Fairy Tales and Legends Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Carrick The Snow Queen Ehrlich Fables Lobel Arrow to the Sun McDermott Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Willems Rapunzel Zelinsky Nursery Rhymes Pio Peep! Spanish Nursery Rhymes Ada Around the World Benjamin The Neighborhood Mother Goose Crews Pocketful of Posies Mavor Here Comes Mother Goose Opie Truckery Rhymes Pretlutsky Poetry In the Wild Elliot Poetrees Florian Dear Hot Dog Gerstein Kids Funniest Knock-knocks Keller Good Sports Pretlutsky Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse Singer
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