2015 Required Summer Reading Program. for Elementary School

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1 2015 Required Summer Reading Program for Elementary School Students entering grades one through five are required to read two books over the summer. Choose both books from the attached list assigned to the grade level you will be entering in the fall. Complete a Book Report Card (also attached) for each book and turn both in to your teacher for a grade. The mandatory reading must be completed and the book reports must be turned in to your teacher by Friday, September 11, All book reports must be turned in at the same time. Students are encouraged to read additional books from the list. Not every book is recommended for every child. It is the parent s responsibility to review the book for suitability of content for the student as well as to gauge the book s reading level. If the student has read one of the books before, he/she must select a new book to be read this summer. Where Eagles Soar Honors Reading This year, we have adopted a gold standard for summer reading in which we encourage all students to participate; however, participation in this part of the reading program is strictly voluntary. Requirement for Where Eagles Soar Honors Reading: the student must complete all of the grade level summer reading requirements as listed above, plus read two or more additional books from the grade level list. Students will submit a book card for each additional book read from the list (must be a book not previously read by the student). The due date for the honors reading is also September 11, 2015.

2 Elementary School Summer Reading List First Grade Frog and Toad Series Clifford Series Curious George Series Amelia Bedelia Series If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Series My Best Friend There Is a Bird on Your Head! Don t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Emily s First 100 Days of School Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Henry and Mudge Series How I Became a Pirate Diary of a Worm Lilly s Purple Plastic Purse Owen Tacky the Penguin Series Strega Nona Officer Buckle and Gloria Skippyjon Jones A Bad Case of the Stripes Duck on a Bike A Treasury of Mother Goose Lobel Bridwell Rey Parish Numeroff Hutchins Willems Willems Wells Viorst Rylant Long Cronin Henkes Henkes Lester and Musinger de Paola Rathmann Schachner Shannon Shannon Yeatman

3 Wiser Words: Family Storie That Bring the Proverbs to Life The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name The Tale of Peter Rabbit Little Pilgrim s Progress The Three Billy Goats Gruff Leithart Lloyd-Jones Potter Taylor Asbjornsen Scholastic My First Readers Second Grade Miss Nelson is Missing Brambly Hedge Series Madeline A Bear Called Paddington and others Squanto and Others The Columbus Story Benjamin Franklin The Bears on Hemlock Mountain The Biggest Bear Matchlock Gun The Story About Ping Only One Woof and Others B is for Betsy Benjamin West and His Cat Frimalkin Rabbit Hill Paul Revere s Ride Rascal The Borrowers Allard Barkle Bemelmens Bond Bulla Dalgleish Dalgleish Dalgleish Draw Edmonds Flack Harriott Haywood Henry Lawson Longfellow North Norton

4 The Tales of Peter Rabbit and others More Stories from Grandma s Attic Nate the Great and the Lost List Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Caps for Sale Stuart Little The Velveteen Rabbit The Three Bears The Emperor s New Clothes The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe The Ugly Duckling When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the Pooh) The King without a Shadow Potter Richardson Sharmot Sidney Slobokin White Williams Galdone Anderson C.S. Lewis Pinkney A.A. Milne R.C. Sproul Childhood of Famous Americans Series Various Favorite Collections 1 & 2 Veritas Press ( ) Aesop s Fables Grimm s Fairy Tales: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes The Magic Mirror The Enchanted Stag Hansel and Gretel The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp The Golden Goose Other Classical Stories: Cinderella Puss in Boots

5 Jack and the Bean Stalk Little Red Riding Hood The Three Bears The Princess on the Pea The Ugly Duckling The Light Princess Beauty and the Beast Third and Fourth Grades Third grade students must choose two books from this list to read and review. Fourth grade students are required to read the Book of Romans and one book below as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review the Book of Romans. Born Free Jo's Boys, Little Men, Little Women Sounder Miss Hickory Peter Pan The Wizard of Oz Spirit Flyer Series Freckle Juice Shoeshine Girl The Little Princess The Incredible Journey The Midnight Fox The Family Under the Bridge Pinocchio Daniel Boone Adamson Alcott Armstrong Bailey Barrie Baum Bibee Blume Bulla Burnett Burnford Byars Carlson Collodi Daugherty

6 Helen Keller The Wheel on the School Hardy Boys Series Twenty-One Balloons The Matchlock Gun The Hundred Dresses, The Moffats Black Stallion Series The Cabin Faced West Old Yeller The Wind in the Willows Sugar Creek Gang Series Nancy Drew Series Lassie Come Home Rabbit Hill Homer Price Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH The Indian in the Cupboard Call It Courage American Girl Series Trumpet of the Swan Swiss Family Robinson Charlotte s Web Little House on the Prairie In Grandma s Attic The Bobbsey Twins The Horse and His Boy Davidson DeJong Dixon du Bois Edmonds Estes Farley Fritz Gipson Grahame Hutchens Keene Knight Lawson McCloskey O'Brien Banks Sperry Tripp White Wyss E.B. White Wilder Richardson Hope Lewis

7 Great and Small Gulliver s Stories Benjamin Franklin Just So Stories The Secret Garden A Wrinkle in Time Alice in Wonderland Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Herriot Dolch Aulaire Kipling Burnett L Engle Carroll Vernes Green James Herriot s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Fifth Grade Fifth grade students are required to read the Book of Romans and one book below as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review the Book of Romans. Sounder Tuck Everlasting Turn Homeward, Hannalee The Summer of the Swans Dear Mr. Henshaw A Christmas Carol Hitty: The First Hundred Years Blue Willow My Side of the Mountain A Father s Promise The Phantom Tollbooth The Jungle Book Armstrong Babbitt Beatty Byars Cleary Dickens Field Gates George Hess Juster Kipling

8 Big Red Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Call of the Wild White Fang Rascal The Borrowers Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Bridge to Terabithia Cooper Kids Adventure Series Pollyanna The Yearling Where the Red Fern Grows The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Good Master Miracles on Maple Hill Star of Light The Tanglewood Secret Freedom Train Kidnapped Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Cay Amos Fortune, Free Man Old Yeller Anne of Green Gables The Hobbit Johnny Tremain Kjelgaard Latham London London North Norton O'Brien Paterson Peretti Porter Rawlings Rawls Robinson Seredy Sorenson St. John St. John Sterling Stevenson Taylor Taylor Yates Fred Gibson Montgomery Tolkien Forbes

9 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Island of the Blue Dolphins Pollyanna The Swiss Family Robinson The Wind in the Willows Robinson Crusoe Treasure Island Around the World in Eighty Days Journey to the Center of the Earth Lewis O Dell Porter Wyss Grahame Defoe Stevenson Vernes Vernes

10 WCA Book Report Card Name: Date: Book Title: Author: Grade your book with an A through an F by circling the letter. Did you enjoy reading the book? Did it have a beginning that grabbed you? Did you like the characters? Did you like the way it ended? A B C D F A B C D F A B C D F A B C D F Answer the following in complete sentences. Would you recommend this book to your friends? Why or why not?

11 What was the best part? What would you change if you had written it? What would you want others to know about this book?

12 WCA Where Eagles Soar Honors Reading Book Card Name: Date: Book Title: Author: Please check one of the boxes: I completely read the book from cover to cover I read most of the book Student Signature: Parent Signature:

13 Book Review for Romans Grades 4 th and 5 th Only Name Date Grade entering in the fall 1. Briefly describe why you think Romans was written. 2. Write out three verses from this book that meant something to you. Use a complete sentence to explain why you chose each verse. (Don't forget to include the Scripture reference.) Verse 1:

14 Why did you choose this verse? Verse 2: Why did you choose this verse? Verse 3: Why did you choose this verse?

15 3. What is the main idea of Romans? (Please answer in complete sentences.)