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Student Reading Log & Activity Booklet 2016

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Would you like to travel to a foreign country? How about travel back in time to the 1920s? Or do you want to trade places with your favorite athlete or singer? By reading this summer you can do all of this and more! Join the to have an adventurous summer vacation! Challenge Dates June 20, 2016 August 31, 2016 Rules to complete the Summer Reading Challenge (SRC): Read for at least 15-20 minutes (E-M or 190L-650L) or 30 minutes (N-Z+ or 520L-1385L) each day this summer. Complete at least 3 activities from the SRC booklet. Use the SRC booklet to track the books you read, log your reading time and record your activity responses. Return the SRC booklet to your Community Advisor on the first day of school in September. Optional: Return the books you ve read to Link for a book exchange with your classmates!

Reading Level Chart 4 Link Community Charter School

Booksource relies only on reputable sources for our leveling information. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the levels presented in this catalog. Guided Reading is based on the standards developed by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell in Matching Books to Readers, Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, Heinemann, 1999; Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6, Heinemann, 2001; The Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Book List, Heinemann, 2006. DRA, or Developmental Reading Level Assessment, developed by Joetta Beaver and published by Celebration Press, 1977, is a method of assessing and documenting achievement within a literature based instructional program. Reading Recovery, a registered trademark of The Ohio State University, creates a set of standards and guidelines. Developed by Marie M. Clay in the 1970s as a short intervention program, it helps low achieving first graders with one-on-one tutoring. Lexile measures are 2011MetaMetrics, Inc., and appear by permission, with all rights reserved. Lexile and related marks are registered trademarks of MetaMetrics, Inc. 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 5

Reading Log Summary Complete the reading log summary at the end of the summer and be sure to have your parent/guardian sign too. Student Name: Grade (Fall 2016): Books Read (attach additional sheets if needed) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Total Time Read (minutes): I confirm that I have read each book and completed the total reading time listed here. Student Signature: Date: I confirm that my child read each book and completed the total reading time listed here. Parent/Guardian Signature: Date: 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 6 Link Community Charter School

June 2016 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Total Read 40 min. (10 pages) 5 30 min. (10 pages) 6 30 min. (10 pages) 7 30 min. (10 pages) 8 50 min. (10 pages) 9 30 min. (10 pages) 10 30 min. (10 pages) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Daily Reading Calendars Use the calendars to log your daily reading. Each day log the minutes and number of pages you read. Each week total the minutes and number of pages you read in the last column of the calendar. Have your parent/guardian initial to sign off. 11 240 min. 70 pages EM 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 7

Daily Reading Calendars 24 July 2016 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Total Read 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 8

1 2 3 4 5 6 August 2016 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Total Read 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Daily Reading Calendars 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 9

Reading Reflection Activities Please complete at least one reading reflection activity from this booklet for each book you finish reading this summer. Always use scrap paper to draft and edit your responses. Use the note sheets at the back of this booklet to write or draw your final responses. Activity 1. Write a book review to a friend Many schools and summer programs have reading challenges this summer. Help your friends select the best books to read! Write a short review for a book from the reading log that you ve completed. Be sure to include the: Book Title: Author's Name: What type of book is it? Funny Spooky Mystery & Adventure Fantasy & Science Fiction Legends, Myths, & Tales Realistic Nonfiction Other Tell one interesting thing about the book: Explain why you liked or didn't like the book: Activity 2. Create a character portrait and biography A biography tells the true story of another person s life. 1. Create a visual portrait or a picture of a character from your book. 2. Write a short written biography about the character to accompany the picture. In the biography, include: a. Character s name. b. Information about their childhood. c. Information about their accomplishments. d. Why is this character important in the book. 10 Link Community Charter School Adapted from TIME for Kids

Activity 3. Twitter style book review (internet needed) 1. Use the twitter style to cut a book review down to 140 characters and a rating. It really forces reviewers to get to the essential appeal or flaw of the work being reviewed AND it's a challenge! 2. Choose a book to review from your reading log that you ve completed. 3. Go to Amazon Books (www.amazon.com/books) and search for your book, Copy and SAVE the URL (highlight + control C). 4. Shorten the URL using Bit.ly (http://bit.ly/)! Paste URL (control + V) into the window and click shorten. Then copy the shortened link! 5. Go to Character Counter (www.charactercountonline.com/) and Paste (control + V) the shortened URL. 6. Add your Emoticon review at the very end. In keeping with SMS Social Media culture, the four ratings are emoticons: =D for Squee! I LOVED it! =) for It was good - not Great! = for Meh...I guess it was just OK. =( GAH! Did NOT like it a bit! 7. Write your Review in FRONT OF the URL and Emoticon. Count your characters as you go along to see if you are close to 140 (including the URL and emoticon review). Cut out words that are unnecessary - re-word, re-think, re-write, re-mix, and be creative! Hints: use "&" rather than the word AND, dashes as breaks, but do NOT write too much in social media speak. Like "OMG, UR going to h8 this book." Informal text is fine but don't go overboard! :-O If you want to post these Tweet reviews you can also add the hashtag #booktweet before the emoticon review so that they can be searched. Did you do all that and you're under 140 characters? Awesome! 8. CUT and PASTE your Tweet review from the Character Counter and put into a Word document, save it, print it and paste your review on a note sheet in this booklet or write it out by hand. Source: Murray Hill Public School Wikispaces 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 11

Reading Reflection Activities (continued) Activity 4. Postcard from a main character Design and write a postcard from one character to another character in a book from your reading log about an event that happened in the story. Use the template on pages 24-25 or draw the template on a loose sheet of paper. 1. Design a postcard in your booklet with all of the elements in the example below. 2. Draw the artwork on the front of the postcard. It should be of an important setting from the book you ve read. 3. On the written side of the postcard, write a brief message from the main character to another character in the book. Be creative, but include all of the elements in the example below. Write your message to the main character in this space. From: Ms. Paradiso 123 ABC Drive Newark, NJ 07102 Postage To: Ms. Hester Link Community CS 23 Pennsylvania Avenue Newark, NJ 07114 Activity 5. Build a story pyramid Complete the story pyramid in the back of the booklet (pages 26-27) for a book from your reading log. You can use a phrase as long as there is only one word per blank space. 1. name of main character 2. 2 words: describe the main character 3. 3 words: describe the setting 4. 4 words: state the main character s goal or problem 5. 5 words: describe an important event 6. 6 words: describe the conclusion 7. 7 words: describe other characters in the book Adapted from Webster Central School District, New York. 12 Link Community Charter School

7. 6. 5. Title: Author: 1. 2. 3. 4. Activity 5 Story Pyramid 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 13

Reading Reflection Activities (continued) Activity 6. Comic Strip Recap Create a comic strip of your favorite scene from a book from your reading log. It should be obvious which event you are drawing. You may use the templates in the back of this booklet or you may draw it on loose sheet of paper using the template on pages 26 and 27. 1. Identify a scene from the book that you would like to picture. 2. Plan out what your comic strip will show. Think about: a. What do the words in the captions or text tell you about the scene pictured? b. What kind of landscape makes sense for the scene? c. What props can you associate with the scene? d. What kind of dialogue bubbles makes sense for the interaction? e. What connects one scene to the next in the comic strip? 3. Draw 7 cartoon boxes for your comic strip. 4. In the first box include the comic title, subtitle and author. a. For the comic title, name the scene (or scenes) that will be depicted. b. For the comic subtitle, name the book where the scene is found. c. Include your name as the author of this comic strip. d. Optional: Draw a picture in this box too. 5. In each of the six remaining frames of the comic strip show a significant event from the book. 6. Include text in each cartoon box or frame. You should create your own caption or dialogue for the text. It should not come straight from the book. 7. Be sure to use color for your drawings. Adapted from Read.Write.Think. 14 Link Community Charter School

Activity 6. Comic Strip Example Mrs. Chanco 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 15

Activity 7. Write a Found Poem A found poem takes words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and refashions them, reorders them, and presents them as poems. Found poetry is the literary equivalent of a collage. 1. Identify a passage in a book from your reading log that you ve completed that is particularly descriptive or significant to you. 2. Write down words that stand out to you. 3. Write a poem that responds to one of the questions below incorporating the words or phrases that you wrote down. a. What is the theme of this story? b. What is the mood or tone of the passage? c. Who are the characters in the story? 4. Finally, write an introductory paragraph before the poem explaining what the poem s message is and the name of the author who wrote the ORIGINAL text. Example of a found poem from page 127 of Holes by Louis Sachar. Passage from the novel: There was a change in the weather. For the worse. The air became unbearably humid. Stanley was drenched in sweat. Beads of moisture ran down the handle of his shovel. It was almost as if the temperature had gotten so hot that the air itself was sweating. A loud book of thunder echoed across the empty lake. A storm was way off to the west, beyond the mountains. Stanley could count more than thirty seconds between. The flash of lightning and the clap of thunder. That was how far away the storm was. Sound travels a great distance across a barren wasteland. Found Poem: There was a change For the worse The air became humid Beads of moisture ran down The handle of his shovel It was almost as if The air itself was sweating Thunder echoed across the empty lake A storm beyond the mountains. Thirty seconds between the flash And the thunder Sound travels a great distance Across a barren wasteland Adapted from Poetry.org and Read.Write.Think. 16 Link Community Charter School

Local Resources Resources for Summer Reading and Writing Library Membership: Apply for a library card at your town s main branch (addresses and websites listed below). All four branches of Link s sending districts participate in the ReBL (Reciprocating Borrowing and Lending) program that allows library members in good standing to check out books and other resources from participating town libraries. Newark Public Library- 5 Washington St., Newark, NJ www.npl.org East Orange Public Library - 21 South Arlington Ave., East Orange, NJ www.eopl.org Orange Public Library - 348 Main St., Orange, NJ www.orangepl.org Irvington Public Library - 5 Civic Square W, Irvington, NJ www.irvingtonpubliclibrary.org Every Hero Has a Story: Enroll in your local library s summer reading program online or in-person. Libraries also offer free reading programs and events, so stop by your local branch or visit them on the web (see links above) to get involved this summer. Online Resources Remember to ALWAYS practice online safety when using the internet and posting content. Do NOT share personal information like your last name, phone number or address. Storia: Find over 4,000 e-book titles in this online library at www.storiaschool.com/#/students/login. You will need your child s classroom code and password. Book Adventure: Find books and complete quizzes for points toward prizes at http://www.bookadventure.com/ Bookopolis: A safe online community for young readers to share their favorite books and discover new ones at https://bookopolis.com Comic Creator: Compose your own comic strips. Choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as compose related dialogue at http:// www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix/ PBS Kids: Educational games and resources online at http:// pbskids.org/games/reading/ Share What You re Reading: Write a book review and share it with your peers online at http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/swyar/ 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 17

Reading Reflection Note Sheets Please use the following note sheets and templates to reflect on at least three books you read this summer. Attach additional sheets as needed. Book Title & Author: Activity Name: Date: 18 Link Community Charter School

Reading Reflection Note Sheets Please use the following blank sheets to complete to reflect on at least three books you read this summer. Attach additional sheets as needed. Activity 2. Create a visual portrait or a picture of a character from the book. 22 Link Community Charter School

Reading Reflection Note Sheets Activity 4. Postcard (front) 24 Link Community Charter School

From: To: Activity 4. Postcard (back) Reading Reflection Note Sheets 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 25

7. 6. 5. Title: Author: 1. 2. 3. 4. Activity 5. Story Pyramid 1. name of main character 2. 2 words: describe the main character 3. 3 words: describe the setting 4. 4 words: state the main character s goal or problem 5. 5 words: describe an important event 6. 6 words: describe the conclusion 7. 7 words: describe other characters in the book Reading Reflection Note Sheets 26 Link Community Charter School

Reading Reflection Note Sheets Activity 6. Comic Strip Recap 28 Link Community Charter School

Reading Reflection Note Sheets Activity 6. Comic Strip Recap 2016 Summer Reading Challenge 29

Tips to Make the Most of Your Summer Reading The best way to have fun and keep learning this summer is to make READING a priority. Plan time for reading Find time to read every day. Wake up a little earlier so you have time to read. Swap a TV show for reading time. Pick the right books Choose a book that s right for your reading level (5 finger rule). Pick out books that interest you. Reread favorite books. Find a book series that interests you. Visit the library for books and events. Make reading social Set a summer reading goal with your friends. Check in with your friends and talk about the books your reading. Exchange books you ve read with your friends. Do puzzles and games that involve reading with your siblings, friends and parents. Get outside! Have a reading picnic, bring a book to the park or beach, or read in your courtyard, on your front porch or in your backyard. Be an active reader Use the active reading bookmark as a reminder to ask questions, infer, predict, visualize, connect and summarize. Practice the close reading strategies on the inside back cover. 30

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Mary Schmich Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke