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Lowell Public Schools Summer Reading 2011


Lowell Public Schools
Summer Reading List Based on DESE rx
K - 1 

Stories
Minarik, Else Holmelund                       Little Bear
Eastman, P.D.                                      Are You My Mother?
Seuss, Dr.                                            Green Eggs and Ham
Lopshire, Robert                                  Put Me in the Zoo
Lobel, Arnold                                       Frog and Toad Together
Lobel, Arnold                                       Owl at Home
DePaola, tomie                                    Pancakes for Breakfast

Read-Aloud Stories (to be enjoyed with an adult)
Baum, L. Frank                                    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Wilder, Laura Ingalls                             Little House in the Big Woods
Atwater, Richard and Florence              Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Haley, Gail E.                                       A Story, A Story
Bang, Molly                                          The Paper Crane
Young, Ed                                            Lon Po Po:  A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
Garza, Carmen Lomas                          Family Pictures
Mora, Pat                                             Tomas and the Library Lady
Henkes, Kevin                                      Kitten’s First  Full Moon


Informational Texts

Bulla, Clyde Robert                              A Tree is a Plant
Aliki                                                     My Five Senses
Aliki                                                     A Weed is a Flower:  The Life of George Washington Carver
Crews, Donald                                     Truck
Hoban, Tana                                        Read Signs


Read Aloud Informational Texts (to be enjoyed with an adult)

Provensen, Alice and Martin                 The Year at Maple Hill Farm
Jenkins, Steve and Robin Page              What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
Pfeffer, Wendy                                      From Seed to Pumpkin
Thomson, Sarah L.                               Amazing Whales!


Grade 2 - 3

Stories

Steig, William                                       Amos & Boris
Cameron, Ann                                      The Stories Julian Tells
MacLachlan, Patricia                            Sarah, Plain and Tall
Rylant, Cynthia                                     Henry and Mudge:  The First Book of Their Adventures
Rylant, Cynthia                                     Poppleton in Winter
Rylant, Cynthia                                     The Lighthouse Family:  The Storm
Stevens, Janet                                       Tops and Bottoms
Osborne, Mary Pope                            The One-Eyed Giant

Poetry
Frost, Robert                                     Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening


 Read Aloud Stories (to be enjoyed with an adult)
White, E.B.                                          Charlotte’s Web
Selden, George                                    The Cricket in Times Square
Babbitt, Natalie                                    The Search for Delicious
Curtis, Christopher                               Bud, Not Buddy
Say, Allen                                            The Sign Painter


Informational Texts

Aliki                                                     A Medieval Feast
Gibbons, Gail                                       From Seed to Plant
Milton, Joyce                                        Bats:  Creatures of the Night
Beeler, Selby                                        Throw Your Tooth on the Roog:  Tooth Traditions Around the World
Ruffin, Frances E.                                 Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Floca, Brian                                          Moonshot:  The Flight of Apollo 11
Thompson, Sarah L.                             Where Do Polar Bears Live?

Read Aloud Informational Text (to be enjoyed with an adult)

Freedman, Russell                                Lincoln:  A Photobiography
Coles, Robert                                       The Story of Ruby Bridges
Smith, David J.                                     If the World Were a Village:  A Book about the World’s People
Arnosky, Jim                                        Wild Tracks!  A Guide to Nature’s Footprints

Grade 4 - 5

Stories

Carroll, Lewis                                       Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Burnett, Frances Hodgson                    The Secret Garden
Farley, Walter                                      The Black Stallion
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de                    The Little Prince
Babbitt, Natalie                                    Tuck Everlasting
Singer, Isaac Bashevis                          “Zlateh the Goat”
Hamilton, Virginia                                 Higgins the Great
Erdrich, Louise                                     The Birchbark House
Curtis, Christopher Paul                        Bud, Not Buddy
Lin, Grace                                            Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Poetry

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence                      “Casey at the Bat”

Informational Texts
Lauber, Patricia                                    Hurricanes:  Earth’s Mightiest Storms
Koscielniak, Bruce                               About Time:  A First Look at Time and Clocks
Hakim, Joy                                           A History of US
Montgomery, Sy                                   Quest for the Tree Kangaroo:  An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
Simon, Seymour                                   Volcanoes
Nelson, Kadir                                       We Are the Ship:  The Story of Negro League Baseball

Books Online

From Lowell Public Schools















SUMMER READING PROJECT
Lowell Public Schools

Please show us how much you liked one or more of your summer reading books by making a project from the list below. You can also create your own project that you think up yourself!  Bring your completed book project back on the first day of school.  You will be recognized and we will display your project.

  KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE ONE
Draw or paint a picture of your favorite book character and write about it.
Draw or paint a picture about your favorite part of a book.

  FIRST GRADE TO SECOND GRADE
Create a colorful new cover for one of your books, showing some event from  
     the book or something you learned from it.
Draw and write about the beginning, middle, and end of a book.

  SECOND GRADE TO THIRD GRADE
Choose a character from two different books and draw a picture of them meeting one another. Draw captions to let us know what interesting things they might say.
Create a book poster using pictures you cut from magazines.  Include pictures of the setting, important story words, and characters. Paste your pictures creatively on poster board.
Write a poem about a book.
Make an interesting facts poster about a nonfiction book.

  THIRD GRADE TO FOURTH GRADE
Write a letter to a friend telling why he/she should read your book.
Write a list of five questions you would ask the main character of a book.
Create a paper chain of events from a book.  Each link can describe something 
     important.  Place the links in order.
Write a song or rap about your favorite book.
Pretend you are a teacher.  Make a quiz for the book you are reading.


ALL GRADES

Please write the titles and author names of the books you read this summer on the lines below.

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Return this form with your project(s) on the first day of school.  We will be using your summer reading as part of our literacy instruction during the first week of school.

For each project you return, your name will be entered into a drawing to represent our school at the October School Committee Meeting.

HAPPY SUMMER READING!!!




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