Rising First Graders Why We Ask Our Students to Read over the Summer One of the goals of summer independent reading at NansemondSuffolk Academy is to create an opportunity for students to make reading a rich, positive and lifelong enjoyable experience. To achieve this goal, students must continue the routine of daily reading. We believe students should be encouraged to follow their interests and passions in materials they read. For rising first through third graders, no formal assignments are given. Suggested titles are provided but not specifically required. We ask that the children read between twenty and thirty minutes per day and keep a reading log to present to their teacher in August. Rising fourth and fifth graders students are assigned one book: No Talking by Andrew Clements(ISBN 10: 1-4169-0983-4) Lower School Guidance Counselor, Mrs. Carol Johnson will focus her first few guidance lessons and related activities around the content of this book. In addition, these students are encouraged to self-select titles of interest to read for pleasure reading daily. This may include magazines, newspapers as well as books. Students are asked to keep a reading log and present it to their teacher in August. Parents are encouraged to read to their children as much as possible over the summer. Shared reading is one of the best preparations for independent reading. I Can Read (series) Let’s Read and Find Out (series) Ready-To-Read (series) Step Into Reading (series) Adler, David; A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln (biography series) Alborough, J; Some Dogs Do Arnosky, J; Armadillo’s Oranges Aston, Dianna Hutts; An Egg is Quiet Bornstein,R; Little Gorilla Brett, Jan; The Mitten Burton, Virginia Lee; Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Cannon, Janell; Stellaluna Crewes, D; Freight Train Cronin, Doreen; Duck for President Eastman, P .D.; Go, Dog. Go!; Are You My Mother? Edwards, P; Roar! Falconer, Ian; Olivia Freeman, Don; Corduroy Gilani-Williams, Fawzia; Nabeel’s New Pants: An Eid Tale Graves, Keith; Chicken Big Henkes, Kevin; Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse; Kitten’s First Full Moon; Wemberly Worried Hills, Tad; How Rocket Learned to Read 1 Rising First Graders, continued Rising Second Graders Jenkins, Steve; I See a Kookaburra! Kraus, Robert; Leo the Late Bloomer Long, M; How I Became a Pirate McCloskey, Robert; Make Way for Ducklings; Blueberries for Sal McGovern, Ann; Stone Soup Piper, Watty; The Little Engine That Could Polacco, Patricia; Chicken Sunday Prelutsky, Jack; The New Kid on the Block (poetry); The Random House Book of Poetry for Children Rylant, Cynthia; The Relatives Came Seuss, Dr.; Hop on Pop! Sierra, J; Wild About Books Slobodkina, Esphyr; Caps for Sale Steig, William; Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Waber, Bernard; Ira Sleeps Over Wells, R; Noisy Nora Willems, M; Knuffle Bunny Students should read daily for a minimum of 15 - 20 minutes. They should alternate between reading to themselves, reading to an adult and reading with an adult. 2014-2015 Primary Virginia Reader’s Choice Books Tom Angleberger; Crankee Doodle Michael Escoffier; Brief Thief Jacqueline Woodson; Each Kindness Jeff Mack; Good News, Bad News Eva Moore; Lucky Ducklings Steve Jenkins; My First Day Candace Fleming; Oh, No! Mo Willems; That is Not a Good Idea! Oliver Jeffers; This Moose Belongs to Me Adler, David; Cam Jansen (series); The Many Troubles of Andy Russell Alexander, L; How the Cat Swallowed Thunder Aliki, J.; My Visit to the Zoo Anderson, C .W.; Billy and Blaze Asch, F; Mr. Maxwell’s Mouse Bemelmans, Ludwig; Madeline’s Rescue Blume, Judy; The One in the Middle is the Green Byars, B; Tornado Kangaroo; Freckle Juice Burns, Marilyn; The Greedy Triangle Burton, Virginia Lee; The Little House Chaconas, Dori; Cork and Fuzz Cleary, Beverly; The Mouse and the Motorcycle Clements, Andrew; Dogku Cobb, Vicki; I Face the Wind Cole, Joanna; The Magic School Bus (series) Conner, L; Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel Demi; The Hungry Coat Gibbons, G; Knights in Shining Armor Grossman,B; Timothy Tunny Swallowed A Bunny; Huck; Princess Furball Hurwitz, J.; Summer with Elisa Keats, Ezra Jack; The Snowy Day 2 Rising Second Graders, continued Rising Third Graders Kimmel, E; Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock King-Smith, D.; Funny Frank; A Mouse Called Wolf Kline, Suzy; Horrible Harry and the Goog Leedy, Loreen; Fraction Action Lobel, Arnold; Frog and Toad All Year McCloskey, Robert; One Morning in Maine McDonald, Megan; The Great Pumpkin Switch Minarik, Else; Little Bear’s Friend Myller, Rolf; How Big is a Foot? Osborne, Mary Pope; Magic Tree House (series) Page, Robin; How to Clean a Hippopotamus Parish, Peggy; Amelia Bedelia Potter, Beatrix; The Tale of Peter Rabbit Sendak, Maurice; Where the Wild Things Are Silverstein, Shel; A Light in the Attic Smith, Roland; S is for Smithsonian Udry, Janice; The Moon Jumpers Van Allsburg, Chris; Polar Express Zelinsky, Paul; Rapunzel Students should read daily for a minimum of 20 – 30 minutes each day. 2014-2015 Primary Virginia Reader’s Choice Books Tom Angleberger; Crankee Doodle Michael Escoffier; Brief Thief Jacqueline Woodson; Each Kindness Jeff Mack; Good News, Bad News Eva Moore; Lucky Ducklings Steve Jenkins; My First Day Candace Fleming; Oh, No! Mo Willems; That is Not a Good Idea! Oliver Jeffers; This Moose Belongs to Me Arkin, Alan; The Lemming Condition Atwater, Richard; Mr. Popper’s Penguins Babbitt, N. Ouch; A Tale from Grimm Banks, L; Harry the Poisonous Centipede Brighton, C; The Fossil Girl Bulla, Clyde; Shoeshine Girl; White Bird Cameron, A; The Stories Julian Tells and More Stories Julian Tells Cleary, Beverly; Runaway Ralph; Ralph S. Mouse; Henry Huggins Clements, Andrew; Frindle Conford, S; Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams Corey, S; You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Cowell, C; How to Train Your Dragon Dahl, Roald; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Gannett, Ruth Stiles; My Father’s Dragon Gardiner, John Reynolds; Stone Fox Grahame, Kenneth; The Reluctant Dragon Hopkins, D; Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings Hunter, Erin; Warriors (series) Hurwitz, Johanna; Baseball Fever Kennedy, Caroline; A Family of Poems Konigsburg, E. L.; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Lawson, Robert; Rabbit Hill 3 Rising Third Graders, continued Rising Fourth Graders Lindgren, Astrid; Pippi Longstocking Macdonald, Betty; Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Mills, Claudia; 7 x 9 =Trouble; Fractions = Trouble Park, Barbara; Junie B. Jones (series) Patterson, Nancy Ruth; The Shiniest Rock of All Pennypacker, Sara; Clementine Scieszka, John; Time Warp Trio (series) Sharmat, Margorie Weinman; Nate the Great and the Sticky Case Smith, Robert K.; Chocolate Fever; Jelly Belly Snicket, Lemony; A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) Sobol, Donald; Encyclopedia Brown (series) Taylor, Sidney; All of a Kind Family Warner, Gertrude Chandler; The Box Car Children (series) White, E .B.; Charlotte’s Web Non-fiction selections: Armstrong; Magic Tree House Research Guide series Avi; The Fighting Ground Bertholf; The Long Gone Lonesome History of Country Music Cohen; Thank You, Jackie Robinson Cook; Hey Batta Batta Swing: the Wild Old Days of Baseball Gibson; Nothing But Trouble Hatkoff; Owen and Mzee Hall-Quest; Jamestown: The Perilous Adventure Leedy; It’s Probably Penny Moore; If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Polette; Pocahontas Sullivan; Paul Revere 2014-15 Virginia Reader’s Choice books: Melissa Sweet: Balloons Over Broadway Kate Messner; Capture the Flag Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tim Litchenheld: Exclamation Mark Janet Tashjian: My Life as a Book Suzanne Selfours:The Sasquatch Escape Judy Cox; Secret Chicken Society Ellis Weiner; The Templeton Twins Have an Idea Jessica Day George: Tuesdays at the Castle Erica Perl; When Life Gives You OJ Sarah Mlynowski; Whatever After: Fairest of All Fiction selections: Anderson; Whales on Stilts Babbit; Tuck Everlasting Blume; Fudge-a-Mania (or any other) Bunting; The Summer of Riley Burnett; The Secret Garden Christopher; Soccer Halfback Cleary; Dear Mr. Henshaw (or any other) Clements; Frindle (or any other) Coifer; Artemis Fowl (series) Dahl; The Witches (or any other) DeCamillo; Because of Winn Dixie Dyer; The Fish in Room 1 Haddix; Say What? (or any other) King-Smith, D; Harry’s Mad (or any other) 4 Rising Fourth Graders, continued Korman; Everest Lowry; Number the Stars Lunn; The Hallow Tree Naylor; Shiloh (or any other) O’Brien; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH O’Dell; Island of the Blue Dolphins Osborne; Favorite Greek Myths Patterson; Winner’s Walk Paulsen; Dogsong (or any other) Rockwell; How to Eat Fried Worms Sacher; Wayside School (series), Holes Snicket; The Bad Beginning (and sequels) Spinelli; The Fourth Grade Rats White; Charlotte’s Webb (or any other) Wilder; Little House in the Big Woods 2014-15 Virginia Reader’s Choice books: Melissa Sweet: Balloons Over Broadway Kate Messner; Capture the Flag Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tim Litchenheld: Exclamation Mark Janet Tashjian: My Life as a Book Suzanne Selfours:The Sasquatch Escape Judy Cox; Secret Chicken Society Ellis Weiner; The Templeton Twins Have an Idea Jessica Day George: Tuesdays at the Castle Erica Perl; When Life Gives You OJ Sarah Mlynowski; Whatever After: Fairest of All Rising Fifth Graders Fiction selections: Banks, Reid; The Indian in the Cupboard Clements, Andrew; Extra Credit Collins, Suzanne; Gregor the Overlander Conner, Leslie; Crunch Coville, Bruce; Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher Creech, Sharon; Replay DiTerlizzi, Tony; Kenny & the Dragon Gaiman, Neil; The Graveyard Book Haddix, Margaret; Among the Hidden (any book in the series) Haddix, Margaret; Found (or the sequel, Sent) Kehret, Peg; The Ghost’s Grave Korman, Gordon; No More Dead Dogs Law, Ingrid; Savvy Lee, Trenton; The Mysterious Benedict Society (any book in series) Levine, Kristin; The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had Mass, Wendy; 11 Birthdays Paterson, Katherine; Bridge to Terabithia Pearson, Ridley; The Kingdom Keepers (any book in the series) Seiznick, Brian; The Invention of Hugo Cabret Spinelli, Jerry; Crash; Maniac Magee Urban, Linda; A Crooked Kind of Perfect Van Draanen, Wendelin; Flipped Nonfiction selections: Burleigh, Robert; Black Whiteness 5 Rising Fifth Graders, continued Davis, Kenneth; Don’t Know Much About Planet Earth Freedman, Russell; Washington at Valley Forge Jackson, Donna; The Bone Detectives Nelson, Kadir; We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball 2013-2014 Virginia Readers Choice: Elementary Applegate; The One and Only Ivan Colin and Pinto; My Invisible Sister Davies; The Lemonade Crime Jurmain; Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the True Story of an American Feud McLachlan; Waiting for the Magic Mills; Fractions = Trouble! Resau; Star in the Forest Urban; Hound Dog True Vande Velde; 8 Class Pets + Squirrel Divided by 1 Dog = Chaos 2014-15 Virginia Reader’s Choice books: Melissa Sweet: Balloons Over Broadway Kate Messner; Capture the Flag Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tim Litchenheld: Exclamation Mark Janet Tashjian: My Life as a Book Suzanne Selfours:The Sasquatch Escape Judy Cox; Secret Chicken Society Ellis Weiner; The Templeton Twins Have an Idea Jessica Day George: Tuesdays at the Castle Erica Perl; When Life Gives You OJ Sarah Mlynowski; Whatever After: Fairest of All Nansemond-Suffolk Academy 3373 Pruden Boulevard Suffolk, Virginia 23434 (757) 539-8789 www.nsacademy.org 6