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​Rising Pre-First summer learning
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“The seeds of reading and school success are sown in the home,
​long before the child ever arrives at school.”

–Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

Optional Summer Math Program:

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This summer we are proud to offer DreamBox, a rigorous, adaptive, and engaging online math program as an optional way to help students reinforce their math skills over the summer months and smoothly transition back to school in August.
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How to Access Dreambox

To encourage continued growth in reading skills through the summer, the following list of titles has been compiled by the classroom teachers and media specialist to assist children and parents in the selection of books.  It is not necessary to limit your choices to these titles, as there are many excellent books also available through your local library. We ask that students spend at least twenty minutes a day reading or being read to.

Want more ideas?
If you are interested in seeing other recommended book lists, a good place to start is the ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) website.
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Click here to download a Reading Rockets Parents’ Tip Sheet with ideas on how to help your child become a successful reader.

Take the Summer Literacy Challenge!  Included here are ten ideas for parents that can make summer a time of learning, creative expression, and above all, fun!
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Finally, Start with a Book is a fantastic website full of ideas about summer reading activities you can share with your kids.  Each theme includes book ideas, activities, websites with interactive media, and much more.

Pre-1st--recommended books and authors

Alphabet books, Rhyming and Predictable books and Cumulative Stories:

Ginsburg, Mirra, Good Morning Chick

Zemach, Margot, The Teeny Tiny Woman

Repetitive story patterns such as:

Brown, Marcia, The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Krauss, Ruth, The Carrot Seed

Cumulative tales such as:

Aardema, Verna, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples’ Ears

Emberley, Ed, Drummer Hoff

Hogrogian, Nonny, One Fine Day

Wood, Audrey, The Napping House

Predictable plots such as:

Burningham, John, Mr. Gumpy’s Outing

Rice, Eve, Sam Who Never Forgets

Wildsmith, Brian, How Many? (Cat on the Mat series)

Controlled vocabulary such as:

Capucilli, Alyssa Satin, Biscuit series

Dr. Seuss, any in Dr. Seuss series

Lobel, Arnold, Frog and Toad series

Maslin, Bobby Lynn, Bob Books series

Scholastic's Hello Readers Level 1 series

Random House's Step Into Reading series; Puffin Easy to Read series

Willems Mo, Elephant and Piggie series


                                 

                                                                         



​Books by the following authors

Allard, Harry
Brett, Jan
Brown, Marc
Carle, Eric    
dePaola, Tomie
Eastman, P.D. 
Henkes, Kevin
Kasza, Keiko
Kellogg, Steven
Lionni, Leo
Martin, Jr., Bill
Numeroff, Laura
Peet, Bill
Sendak, Maurice           
Van Allsburg, Chris       
Viorst, Judith
​Willems, Mo                        
Wood, Don and Audrey 

Beginning Chapter Books:

Magic Tree House

Holiday House Readers

Nate the Great

Amelia Bedelia

Henry and Mudge

Ready to Read Levels 1 and 2

Nonfiction:

Books by Gail Gibbons

See Me Grow series

Eyewitness Readers, Level 1 and Beginning to Read

Animals are Fun series         
                            
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