Summer Reading
First Grade
Throughout the summer, please read with your upcoming first grader! You can read to them, allowing them to 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
Jerry Spinelli, Fourth Grade Rats
Click here for the Fourth Grade Summer Reading Report
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: Ronald 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
The students will complete the book report form on the website and turn it in on the first day of school. Students will need to bring their novel to school on the first day. We will discuss the novel and complete activities for a grade.
Click here for the Sixth Grade Summer Reading Report
Students in grades 7-9 will take a test on the first day of school.
7th Grade
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe
8th Grade
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
9th Grade- S. E. Hinton, Tex OR Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
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.)