Summer Reading Recommendations Read Alouds are wonderful: (1st-5th)       

To introduce your children to great literature that is beyond their personal reading capacity. To develop within your children a life-long love of reading. (Even though they may not be able to read a good book on their own, when you read great literature to them, it creates a thirst to read. They begin to think, "I love books! One day I'm going to read books like this!") To expand your children's vocabulary. To build listening skills--including the ability to visualize the meaning of spoken words. To develop an "ear" for good oral reading. To develop oral reading skills. (Having heard quality oral reading done by you, your children will imitate you.) To give you and your children a context for sharing mutually significant times together.

Grade Level Pre-K

Read Aloud Recommendations The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter Milly Molly Mandy by Joyce Brisley Poems and Prayers for the Very Young by Eloise Wilkins A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr.

Dr. Seuss books

Independent Reading In addition: -I Can Read Books - Level 1 -Scholastic has a variety of books and box sets that cover a variety of sight words if your child is ready for this step in reading. Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

*See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight Kindergarten

Mother Goose (any version) Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne

Use the 'book wizard' on Scholastic.com to find books on your child's DRA level to read independently.

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (First graders should not read this one because they will read it during the school year.)

Assist your child with book selections at your public library for guided reading, independent reading and additional read alouds.

Carrot Soup John Segal Clap Your Hands Lorinda Bryan Cauley Click, Clack, Moo Doreen Cronin Corduroy Don Freeman

Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown The Great Fuzz Frenzy Janet Stevens The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper Dr. Seuss, Curious George, Clifford & I Can Read books *See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight First Grade

Skippack School by Marguerite de Angeli Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater Dragon Howl by Vanessa Rouse The Tinfoil Girl by Olivia Miller The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson Henry Huggins (Henry Huggins, #1) by Beverly Cleary The Twenty one Balloons by William Pene du bois

Students may enjoy reading books from previous lists. Use the 'book wizard' on Scholastic.com to find books on your child's DRA level to read independently. Assist your child with book selections at your public library for guided reading, independent reading and additional read alouds. Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

*See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight Second Grade

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Stuart Little by E.B. White The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente The School Story by Andrew Clements Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery Strawberry Girl by Louis Lenski Half Magic by Edward Eager

Students may enjoy reading books from previous lists. Use the 'book wizard' on Scholastic.com to find books on your child's DRA level to read independently. Assist your child with book selections at your public library for guided reading, independent reading and additional read alouds. Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

Sugar Creek Gang Series *See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight

Third & Fourth Grade

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Fisher

Students may enjoy reading books from previous lists.

Carry on Mr. Bowditch by Jean Latham The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang The Railroad Children by Edith Nesbit Just David by Eleanor Poter

Use the 'book wizard' on Scholastic.com to find books on your child's DRA level to read independently. Provide opportunities for your child to make selections at your public library for independent reading.

George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald The Candymakers by Wendy Mass

Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

Thee, Hannah! by Marguerite de Angeli Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen In Search of the Source: A First Encounter w/ God's Word by Neil T Anderson

Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield Little Britches by Ralph Moody Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo *See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight

Fifth Grade

Heidi by Johanna Spyri Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright

Students may enjoy reading books from previous lists. Provide opportunities for your child to make selections at your public library for independent reading. Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

Daughter of the Mountains by Louise S. Rankin Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine Journey to Jo'burg: A south African Story by Beverley Naidoo The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Treasures of the Snow by patricia St. John Freedom's Cause and The Young Carthaginian by G.A. Henty Trailblazer books *See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight

Summer Reading Recommendations Bob Jones Press has excellent books that encourage the students in their faith. There website is: https://www.bjupress.com/category/ages6to7-cs

Sixth Grade

Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard Men of Iron by Howard Pyle The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain *See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight * Students may enjoy reading books from previous lists.

Provide opportunities for your child to make selections at your public library for independent reading. Seventh & Eight Grade

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Kisses From Kate by Katie Davis

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig The Heart Strangely Warmed by Louise A. Vernon Mary Jones and Her Bible by Mary E. Ropes The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy *See Sonlight's list for more recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/sonlight * Students may enjoy reading books from previous lists.

Provide opportunities for your child to make selections at your public library for independent reading.