Team Inspiration- Final Reading Push

Great Summer Reading Activities!

Let’s Celebrate Reading ! Reading well offers

many opportunities for academic success.

Knowledge! Fun! Adventure! Freedom to

explore!

Vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary !

Children in grades three through twelve learn the meanings of about 3,000 new words a year. The majority of new words are learned incidentally while reading books and other materials.

Research supports the importance of independent reading. Classroom instruction cannot possibly teach every word and its meaning.

A look at the facts: Variation in the Amount of Independent

Reading

percentile rank minutes/day words experienced in a year

(Books, magazines, newspapers)

98th 67.3 4,733,00090th 33.4 2,357,00070th 16.9 1,168,00050th 9.2 601,00030th 4.3 251,00010th 1.0 51,000 2nd 0.0 ------------

The Research is clear: Good readers, READ!Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding. Reading Research Quarterly“Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school.”

Independent readers: 9-12 years

Continue reading books that challenge your vocabulary

and thinking skills.

Provide your brain a steady flow of books and conversations about them. Find some kids in your neighborhood and form your own book group. Chat it up with family and friends!

Self-select books that interest you! Reading materials can be any genre, series, or author. Newspapers and comics count too!

Voracious readers are made, not born. Children who read most, also read best. It’s never too late to

become a good reader!

We Must Stop the “Summer Slip”

Most children, especially struggling readers, forget some of what they’ve learned, or “slip” out of reading practice during the summer months.

Research shows that reading just six books (or approximately 16 minutes a

day) during the summer may keep a reader from regressing.

Summer Reading Suggestions

(You can find many of theseat York County Library!)

Summer Reading ProjectBook List – Fourth Grade

Any Roald Dahl book Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing Judy Blume Bunnicula James Howe Cricket in Times Square George Selden Diary of A Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Dork Diaries Rachel Renee Russell How to Eat Fried Worms Thomas Rockwell Frindle and No Talking Andrew Clements

Summer Reading ProjectBook List – Fourth Grade

Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo Bobby vs. Girls Lisa Yee Eleven Patricia Reilly Giff The Library Card Jerry Spinelli Judy Moody (movie) Megan McDonald and Peter

Reynolds Katie Kazoo Switcheroo Nancy E. Krulik and John Wendy Stuart Little E.B. White Charlotte’s Web E.B. White Dear America, (series) Various Authors A Dog’s Life Autobiography of a Stray Ann M. Martin The Lemonade War Jacqueline Davies

Summer Reading Project Book List – Fifth Grade

Any Gordon Korman book or series Hatchet Gary Paulsen Holes Louis Sachar The Cay Theodore Taylor Island of the Blue Dolphin Scott O’Dell The Lightning Thief Series (movie!) Rick Riordan When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead (a recent Newberry Winner!) The 39 Clues Various Authors The Hunger Games (movie!)

Summer Reading Project Book List – Fifth Grade Continued

Love That Dog/Hate That Cat Sharon Creech Spiderwick Chronicles Tony DiTerlizzi Because of Anya Margaret Peterson

Haddix Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis Harry Potter J.K. Rowling Mr. Popper’s Penguins (movie!) Richard Atwater Soul Surfer (movie!) Bethany Hamilton,

Rick Bundschuh and Sheryl Berk

Million Dollar Throw Mike Lupica (or any other book written by this popular sports writer)

Extension Activities

Extension Activities for the books you read!

Make a picture book of the novel. Pick a scene from the book and rewrite it

as a play. Construct puppets and present a show of

one or more interesting parts of the book. Write and/or perform an original song

that tells the story of the book. Create a tri-fold brochure or pamphlet advertising your novel.

Extension Activities for the books you read!

Write a full description of two of the characters in the book. Draw a portrait to accompany each description.

Create a comic strip for your book. Create a PowerPoint presentation

describing the elements of fiction (setting, plot, characters, theme, mood) as they relate to your book.

Computer Fun!

Great websites to help you find books!

http://palibraries.libguides.com/content.php?pid=364208&sid=3847016 DAIS WEBSITE for SUMMER READING! Http://youarewhatyouread.scholastic.com/ Get book recommendations from celebrities!

http://scholastic.com/clashofthetitles/ Clash of the Books- Vote for your favorite books and scope out the winners!

Keep your brain sharp!Reading Extension http://teacher.scholastic.com/activiti

es/scrapbook/ Make a character scrapbook. Perfect to do after reading any book!

Word Games (Vocabulary) www.freerice.com you can practice vocabulary

and help others! http://www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/synonym_to

ast.htm Wordgirl- Synonyms

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/game.htm# Root Words!

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm# Clean up your Grammar!

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/frog/frog.html Word Frog

Spelling Games http://www.kidsspell.com/ (click on Select A

Spelling List- you can find lists for any grade) http://www.abcya.com/

fourth_grade_computers.htm spelling and vocabulary choices for 4th grade

http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/frieda/frieda.html

http://www.funbrain.com/spellroo/index.html

Creative Writing Activities

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm Silly Story Starters!

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html Comic Creator!

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/readwritethink-printing-press-30036.html Printing Press- provides many cool ways to format your writing! (make newspapers, magazines, etc.)

For ParentsQuestions to ask your readers

Questions to Ask Your Child- Before Reading

Why does this book interest you? Based on the title and the pictures,

what do you predict will happen in the story?

Do you think there will be a problem in the story? Why or why not?

Questions to Ask Your Child- During Reading What do you think will happen next? Can you put what you’ve just read in

your own words? What do you know about the main

character? What would you have done if you

were the character? Are any of the characters changing?

Questions to Ask Your Child- After Reading What was the most interesting situation in the

story? Why do you think the author wrote this book? Were you satisfied by the ending of the book?

Why or why not? If you could change one thing in the story,

what would it be? Is there a character in the story like you? How

are you alike?

Super Six Reading Strategies

Predictions (I predict… because…) Connections (text to self, text to text, text to

world) Monitoring (Does the reading make sense?

What are difficult words or ideas?) Questioning (I wonder… because…) Evaluating (How do I rate the story and the

author’s style?) Summarizing (In the beginning, next, then,

after that, in the end)