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2-3 Summer Reading Tips!
Parents:
Your students have grown to be great readers this year. They have gained
many reading skills that will still need to be practiced over the summer
to ensure retention. Thus, It is important to keep them reading over the
summer. Summer reading can bridge the end of one school year and the
beginning of the next.
Why
do summer reading?
Increase reading level
Individualize reading material
Language skills
Vocabulary
Ethics
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Below you will find some tips to make summer reading a fun experience
for you and your child. Below the tips, you will find my suggestions of
great books to read for the summer. I hope this list will help you find
many books that a second or third grader would enjoy.
I ask that your child read everyday for at least fifteen minutes.
Some
Tips, Tips, Tips for Summer Reading!!!!
- Keep
books in the car and make sure a good book gets tucked into sports
bags
and campers' backpacks.
- Get
your child his own library card.
Take or allow him to go to the library often browse for books
and enjoy special activities.
- Help
your child select books on topics he is interested in and on his
reading level.
A simple rule of thumb for helping your child select books at
his reading level is to have them choose
a page in the book (not the first one) and read it. If he doesn’t
know five or more of the words, then
the book is too hard for pleasure reading.
- Have
plenty of books, books on tape, magazines, and other reading
material around for kids to read.
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Stock up inexpensive books that can be exposed to the elements or
swapped for others at camp.
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Connect reading with other summer activities.
For example, read books about places you will go over the summer
or things you will be doing. Perhaps
you will visit the beach or go camping, there are many good books
about the beach and camping!
- Set
goals and reward reading.
Reward reading with more reading. If your child finishes one
book, stop by the store and let him pick out another.
Let your kids see you read.
Read the newspaper over your morning coffee, take a magazine
from the rack in a doctor's office while
you wait, and stuff a paperback into your purse, pocket, or
briefcase. Your kids will catch on to the
fact that reading is something you like to do in your spare time.
- Make
reading together fun and memorable.
Even if your child is a super reader, they still love to be read
too.
You may want to use different voices for different characters when
you read to your child.
Reading together is a time for closeness and
cuddling-another way to show your love as a caring adult.
Children love to read letters and notes you write them. Maybe have a
day of no talking only writing
and reading each others notes.
Read it, then do it.
Does your child want to learn magic tricks? Juggling? Computer
games? There's sure to be a book
that can help him. Have your child read the instructions and then
give it a try.
Here
are some great books that second and third graders love to read!
Click on the title to learn more!
POEMS
PICTURE BOOKS
Flat
Stanley
-- Jeff Brown
A falling bulletin board flattens Stanley
so he is only one-half inch thick. |
FOLKTALES AND
FAIRYTALES
FICTION
Why
Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
-- Verna Aardema, Leo D. Dillon (Illustrator); |
Cam
Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds
-- David A. Adler, Susanna Natti |
Aliens
For Breakfast (Stepping Stone, paper)
-- Jonathan |
Miss
Rumphius
-- Barbara Cooney |
Dinosaurs
Before Dark (Magic Tree House 1, paper)
A tree house that travels through time.
This is the first book in the Magic Tree House Series.
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Horrible
Harry in Room 2B
-- Suzy Kline, Frank Remkiewicz (Illustrator)
Harry is a 2nd grader who likes to do horrible
things. (Look for other Horrible Harry books.) |
The
Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups
-- David Wisniewski (Illustrator);
Parents seem to have a lot of rules. Here you can find the
"real" reason behind the rules. |
Paper
Bag Princess
-- Michael Martchenko (Illustrator), Robert N. Munsch
A princess outwits a dragon to rescue the prince she intends
to marry. |
Grandmama's
Joy
-- Eloise Greenfield, Carole Byard (Illustrator); |
Amelia
Bedelia and the Baby
-- Peggy Parish |
Chicken
Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
-- Maurice Sendak |
Junie
B. Jones Smells Something Fishy (Junie B. Jones 12, Library
Binding)
-- Barbara Park, |
Martha
Blah Blah
-- Susan Meddaugh
A talking dog takes action |
You
Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown
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Zelda
and Ivy One Christmas
-- Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Illustrator); |
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