Summer Reading
First Grade
Throughout the summer, please read with your upcoming first-graders! You can read to them to help them identify sight words, or they can read to you. Please fill out the form each time you read and return the completed form on the first day of first grade (25 books)! Please fill in ALL 25 books for a grade! Thank you and HAPPY READING!
Click here for First Grade Chart
Second Grade
Four books by any of the following authors:
-Syd Hoff
-Leo Leonni
-Stan and Jan Berenstain
-Robert McCloskey
-Cynthia Rylant
-Arnold Lobel
Click here for the Second Grade Summer Reading Report
Third Grade
Two books by different authors:
-Beverly Cleary, any book
-Eleanor Estes, The Hundred Dresses
-Cynthia Rylant, any book
-Mary Pope Osborne, Magic Tree House series
Click here for the Third Grade Summer Reading Report
Fourth Grade
Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
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Fifth Grade
Choose one of the following books to read:
-Bridge to Terabithia by: Katherine Paterson
-Where the Red Fern Grows by: Wilson Rawls
-James and the Giant Peach by: Roald Dahl
-A Wrinkle in Time by: Madeleine L'Engle
Click here for the Fifth Grade Summer Reading Report
Sixth Grade
Lynne Reid Banks, The Indian in the Cupboard
Click here for the Sixth Grade Summer Reading Report
Students in grades 7-9 do not have a required book report; they will take a test on the second day of school. A book report will be accepted for extra credit.
7th Grade
Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain
8th Grade
Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson Lightning Thief
9th Grade
S. E. Hinton, Tex
High School History Summer Work for Laci Slagley's Classes
10th Grade- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury OR The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by: Joe Siple
11th Grade- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmeal Beah OR Animal Farm by: George Orwell
12th Grade- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde OR The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by: Robert Lewis Stephenson (Students approved and enrolled in Dual Enrollment English are not required to complete the summer reading assignment. However, it is highly recommended that those students complete the assignment for enrichment purposes. To be approved and enrolled in Dual Enrollment English a student must have an 18 on the English section of the ACT or a passing score on the Accuplacer.)