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PS/IS 266 74-10 Commonwealth Blvd. Bellerose, NY 11426 Nicole Scott Principal Paul Winters Assistant Principal June 2009 Dear Parents, Welcome to summer! The 2009 Summer Reading Challenge’s theme this year is “Readers are Leaders!” It was inspired by the great leader, Abraham Lincoln, who walked miles to borrow and return books. Mr. Lincoln read his books after working long, hard days. Computer genius Bill Gates ranks Catcher in the Rye as his favorite. Mrs. Schwartz and Mrs. Gallagher agree with him. Famous filmmaker, Steven Spielberg loved Treasure Island as a child and Mrs.Palmeri loved Frog and Toad. Edge, the wrestler, loved Eragon and Ms. Elzweig’s favorite book was Chrysanthemum. Our own leader, Ms. Scott states her favorite book to be The Little Engine That Could. Leadership is about asking other people to do what you ask of yourself. Our challenge‘s purpose is to help students and their families understand the value of reading for enjoyment and to bridge the home/school benefits of the reading experience. There is also documented evidence that states a 2.6 month delay in September for children that do not read over the summer. The PS/IS 266 Summer Reading Challenge is the cure! The reading your child does this summer may be the foundation of the lifelong learners and leaders of tomorrow! There is a Reading Record to help you keep track of the books you have read. You may want to select books or magazines on your own. There is also an activity page. There is a Story Map form to be followed by specific grades. There will be NO penalty for NOT doing the book reports or activities. A completed Reading Record is necessary in order to receive a certificate. The class that has the most participants will receive a special celebration!! Students will be required to read a specific number of books and complete ONE creative activity or book report for any one book read to receive a certificate. Books read for a specific subject can be included. PreK-K 3 picture books + 1 creative activity 1-2 3 picture books + 1 chapter book + 1 creative activity 3-5 2 chapter books + 1 creative activity or 1 book report 6-8 3 chapter books + 1 creative activity or 1 book report All work must have the student’s name and incoming grade on it. The Challenge work is due on September 11, 2009. Late work will not be accepted after that date. There will be grade leveled labeled crates in the lobby to deposit the completed Challenge work. Making reading a part of your summer will have long term benefits for your children and for your family. We want to wish everyone a safe and healthy summer! See you in September!!! Janice Smith Susan Weingart Summer Reading Challenge Committee Creative Response Activities Below please find a list of activities (appropriate Pre-K through 8) that students can create in response to the book they have read. Select the one that most interests the child so that it is a fun activity. All responses must have a name and a grade on it. 9 Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. 9 Write a diary that one of the story’s main characters might have kept before, during or after the book’s events. Remember that the character’s thoughts and feelings are very important in a diary. 9 Construct a diorama (three-dimensional scene which includes models of people, buildings, plants and animals) of one of the main events of the book. Include a written description of the scene. 9 Write a letter (10 sentence minimum) to the main character of your book asking questions, protesting a situation and/or making a complaint and/or suggestion. This must be done in the correct letter format. 9 Create a mini-comic book relating a chapter of the book. 9 Make a collage/poster showing pictures or 3-D items that relate to the book and then write a sentence or two beside each one to show it’s significance. 9 Draw a comic strip of your favorite scene. 9 Make a mobile about the story. 9 Write a different beginning or ending to the story. 9 Make a map of where the events in the book took place. 9 Complete a story map (see attached: Story map “A” for Pre-K through 3. Story map “B” for grades 4 through 8). 9 Make a list of new and unusual words and expressions you might have come across while reading the book. 9 Make a “Wanted” poster for one of the characters or objects in your book. Include the following: a.) a drawing or cut out picture of the character or object, b.) a physical description of the character or object, c.) other information about the character or object which is important, d.)the reward offered for the character or object. 9 Select one character from the book you read who has the qualities of a heroine or hero. List these qualities and tell why you think they are heroic. Summer Reading Record Student Name:_______________________ Grade (September):___________ Dear Students and Parents, Please list below the titles and authors of the books you read this summer. You are required to read or have someone read to you, a certain number of books depending on your grade level. Requirements are as follows: Grades K - 2: 3 picture books and/or 1 chapter book Grades 3 – 5: 2 chapter books Grades 6 – 8: 2 books Please see the P.S./I.S. 266 Summer Reading Lists for titles. You may also attach a list of additional books you may have read. Title ________________________ 2.________________________ 3.________________________ 4.________________________ 5.________________________ 6.________________________ 7.________________________ 8.________________________ 1. Author _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ I certify that I have read or heard aloud the books listed below: Student signature:_______________________________________________ I certify that my child has read the books listed below or they were read to my child. Parent Signature:_______________________________________________ Your comments on the P.S./I.S. Summer Reading Program are appreciated! Please direct to Mrs. Smith in the library. Suggested Reading: Pre-K Title The Best Place To Read Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Can You Make a Piggie Giggle Little Rabbit's First Number Book When Sophie Gets Angry Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Goodnight Moon Truck Bugs For Lunch Olivia Corduroy Itsy Bitsy, The Smart Spider Owen 26 Leters and 99 Cents Kitten For A Day Brown Bear,Brown Bear, What Do You See? Chicka Chicka Boom Boom If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Mabela The Clever The Eye Book No, David! Gregory, The Terrible Eater Kindergarten Pete's A Pizza Rain Have You Seen My Duckling Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Mouse Paint Knuffle Bunny Author Bertram, Debbie and Bloom, Susan Aardema, Verna Ashman, Linda Baker Bang, Molly Barret, Judi Brown, Margaret Wise Crews, David Facklam, Margery Falconer, Ian Freeman, Don Harper Henkes, Kevin Hoban, T. Keats, Ezra Jacks Martin Jr., Bill Martin Jr., Bill Numeroff, Laura Read, Margaret Seig, Theodore Le Shannon, David Sharmat, Mitchell State, Joseph Steig, William Stojic, Manya Tafuri Trapani, Iza Walsh, Ellen S. Willems, Mo Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Kindergarten Title Once Upon A Banana The Mitten Have You Seen My Cat ? The Very Hungry Caterpillar The Very Quiet Cricket Mice Are Nice Freight Train Abuela Bugs For Lunch Hattie And the Fox Corduroy Oxcart Man Off to School, Baby Duck The Door Bell Rang The Hello Goodbye Window Pinkalicious The Carrot Seed The Shivers in The Fridge George and Martha Good Night Gorilla Gregory, The Terrible Eater So Sleepy Story Come Along, Daisy Play Mozart Play Grumpy Bird Curious George Visits The Library Buzz said the Bee Author Armstrong, Jennifer Brett, Jan Carle, Eric Carle, Eric Carle, Eric Chigna, Charles Crews, Donald Dorros, Arthur Facklam, Margery Fox, Mem Freeman, Don Hall, Donald Hest, Amy Hutchins, Pat Juster, Norton Kann, Victoria Krauss, Ruth Manushkin, Fran Marshall, James Rathmann, Peggy Sharmat, Mitchell Shulevitz, Uri Simmons, Jane Sis, Peter Tankard, Jeremy Wetson, Martha Wilhelm, Hans Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 1 Title Manny's Cows: The Niagara Falls Tale Spinning Spiders The Mitten Stone Soup Maisy (series) Freight Train Diary of a Spider Diary of a Worm The Spider and The Fly One Hundred Shoes Arthur's Penpal The Maqic Horse Of Han Gan Breakout at the Bug Lab Harold and The Purple Crayon Pinkalicious Whistle for Willie Henrietta's First Winter Frog and Toad are Friends George and Martha Blueberries for Sale Amazing Felix Edward and the Pirates If You Give A Mouse A Muffin If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Curious George The Boy Who Loved Words Where the Wild Things Are John, Paul, George & Ben Doctor DeSoto Stevie Author Becker, Suzy Berger,Melvin Brett, Jan Brown, Marcia Cousins, Lucy Crews, Donald Cronin, Doreen Cronin, Doreen DiTerlizzi, Tony Ghigha, Charles Hoban, Russell Hong, Chen Jiang Horowitz, Ruth Johnson, Crockett Kann, Victoria Keats, Ezra Jacks Lewis, Rob Lobel, Arnold Marshall, James McCloskey, Robert McCulluy, Emily Arnold McPhail, David Numeroff, Laura Numeroff, Laura Joffee Rey, Margaret Schotter, Roni Sendak, Maurice Smith, Lane Steig, William Steptoe, John Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 2 Title Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie Fudge-A-Mania The Great Kapok Tree Runaway Ralph Amber Brown True Blue The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room Teammates The Best Worst Day Runaway Radish The Girl with 500 Middle Names Mei Li Pinky and Rex Baseball Fever Scrambled States of America Judy Moody (Series) Edward and the Pirates Magic Tree House (Series) The Talented Clentine The Littles (Series) Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter Thank You, Mr. Falker A to Z Mysteries (Series) Henry and Mudge (Series) Grandfather's Journey The Math Curse Sylvestor and the Magic Pebble The Secret Shortcut A Tree is Nice Author Adler, David Blume, Judy Cherry, Lynn Cleary, Beverly Danzinger, Paula Elste, Joan Giff, Patricia Reilly Goldenbock, Peter Graves, Bonnie B. Haas, Jessie Haddix, Margaret Handforth, Thomas Howe, James Hurwitz, Johanna Keller, Laurie McDonald, Megan McPhail, David Osborne, Mary Pope Pennypacker, Sara Peterson, John Platt, Richard Polacco, Patricia Roy, Ron Rylant, Cynthia Say, Allen Scieszka, Jon Steig, William Teague, Mark Udry, Janice May Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 3 Title Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery Hi! Fly Guy Adrift Emily Eyefinger and the Lost Treasure Tracks in the Snow Saving Mr. Nibbles Moose Tracks The Chocolate Touch Matt Christopher (series) Ramona Forever Room One: A Mystery or Two The Story of Ruby Bridges The Swap Monster in Third Grade Amber Brown (series) Because of Winn Dixie The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room Meet George Washington Baseball Fever Three Samurai Cats: A Story from Japan Rudy Lu, Brave and True Outside and Inside Dinosaurs Shiloh Tigers at Twilight Clementine Safe At Home Summer Reading is Killing me Martin Bridge Blazing Ahead! The Cricket in Times Square Nate The Great and Big Sniff Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective How I Spent my Summer Vacation Hank Zipzer (Series) Author Adler, David A. Arnold, Tedd Baillie, Allen Ball, Duncan Bledsoe, Lucy Carment, Patrick Casanova, Mary Catling, Patrick Christopher, Matt Cleary, Beverly Clements, Andrew Coles Dadey, Debbie Danzinger, Paula DiCamillo, Kate Giff, Patricia Reilly Heilbroner, Joan Hurwitz, Johanna Kimmel, Eric Look, Lenore Markle, Sandra Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Osborne, Mary Pope Packer, Sara Penny Robinson, Shoran Scieszka, Jon Scott, Jessica Selden, George Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman Sobl, Donald Teague, Mark Winkler, Henry Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 4 Title Beagle in a Backpack Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing Meet Abraham Lincoln The Bookstore Mouse Dear Mr. Henshaw Frindle The Landry News Bud, Not Buddy Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. The Strongest Girl in the World and the Invisible Boy My Life Among the Aliens Bugs! The Homework Machine Bugs: Poems About Creeping Things Anastasia Again Trolls, Go Home Knowledge is Power The Life and Times of the Ant New York's Bravest Clementine Rickshaw Girl Good Sports Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem The Random House Book of Poetry for Children How to Eat Fried Worms Missing May Hang Tough, Paul Mather A Crooked Kind of Perfect Charlotte's Web The Aurora County All Stars Cockroach Cooties Author Baglio, Ben M. Blume, Judy Cary, Barbara Christian, Peggy Cleary, Beverly Clement, Andrew Clements, Andrew Curtis, Christopher Paul DeKay, James T. Gardner, Sally Gauthier, Gail Greenberg, David T. Gutman, Dan Harrison, David L. Lowry, Lois MacDonald, Alan Mazer, Anne Micucci, Charles Osborne, Mary Pope Pennypacker, Sara Perkins, Mitali Prelutsky, Jack Prelutsky, Jack Prelutsky, Jack Rockwell, Thomas Rylant, Cynthia Slote, Alfred Urban, Linda White, E.B Wiles, Deborah Yep, Laurence Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 5 Title Author Ragweed Avi Blubber Blume, Judy Soccer Duel Christopher, Matt The Bogart Cooper, Susan Bloomability Creech, Sharon The Cat Ate My Gym Suit Danziger, Paula One Eyed Cat Fox, Paula Dragon Rider Funke, Cornelia Inkheart Funke, Cornelia Jack on the Tracks Gantos, Frank All the Way Home Giff. Patricia Reilly A Girl Called a Boy Harmonica, Belinda Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Hoobler, Dorothy Everything on a Waffle Horvath, Polly The Akhenaten Adventure Keer, Philip Silent to the Bone Konigsburg, E.L. Onion John Krumgold, Joseph Ella Enchanted Levine, Gale Carson Number the Stars Lowry, Lois Eclipse Meyer, Stephanie Twilight Meyer, Stephanie Alida's Song Paulsen, Gary Esperanza Rising Ryan, Pamela Munoz Black Beauty Sewell, Anna Maniac Magee Spinelli, Jerry Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred Homecoming Voight, Cynthia The Castle in the Attic Winthrop, Elizabeth Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 6 Title The Calder Game Hope was Here The Curse of the Blue Figurine Shakespeare Stealer Flight #116 ID Down Bud, Not Buddy Tiger Rising The City of Ember The Fact Tracker The White Elephant Found (Missing Series #1) From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Frankweiler The Outcasts from 15 Schulyler Place The View from Saturday The Giver Richard Wright and the Library Card Princess Ben A Place to Belong Brian's Return All of the Above Freak the Mighty The Random House Book of Poetry for Children Safe at Home For Your Eyes Only The Harry Potter Series Holes By Bea Letters from Hannah The Uglies Belle Prater's Boy Author Balliet, Blue Bauer, Joan Bellairs, John Blackwood, Gary Cooney, Caroline Curtis, Christopher Paul DiCamillo, Kate Duprau, Joanne Eaton, K. Carter Fleishman, Sid Haddix, Margaret Peterson Konigsberg, E.L. Konigsberg, E.L. Konigsberg, E.L. Lowry, Lois Miller, William Murdock, Catherine Nixon, Joan Lowery Paulson, Gary Persell, Shelley Philbrick, Rod Prelutsky, Jack Robinson, Sharon Rocklin, Joanne Rowling, J.K. Sacher, Louis Schyffert, Uusma Skolsky, Mindy Warsaw Westerfeild, Scott White, Ruth Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 7 Title Ashes of Roses Wabi: A Hero's Tale Gideon, The Cutpurse Journey of the Sparrows Al Capone Does My Shirts Burning Up The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Parvana's Journey Amandine The Old Willis Place The Maze Penny From Heaven Onward English American The Year of the Dog Gossamer The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas Saving the Buffalo Twilight Myst, The Book of Atrus A Dangerous Promise Caught in the Act Chasing Normal A Day No pigs Would Die Yellow Star DogBoy Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie The Cay Homecoming Author Auch, Mary Jane Bruchac, joseph Buckley, Linda Buss, Fran Leeper Choldenko, Gennifer Cooney, Caroline Covey, Sean Ellis, Deborah Griffin, Adele Hahn, Mary Downing Hobbs, Will Holm, Jennifer L. Johnson, Dolores Larkin, Alison Lin, Grace Lowry, Lois Mack, Tracey Martin, Albert Meyer, Stephanie Miller, Rand Nixon, Joan Lowry Nixon, Joan Lowry Papdemetriou, Lisa Peck, Robert Newtown Roy, Jennifer Russell, Christopher Sonnenblick, Jordan Taylor, Theodore Voight, Cynthia Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Suggested Reading: Grade 8 Title Speak Eight Men Out the Black Sox &The 1919 World Series Crispin: The Cross of Lead Anna of Byzantium The Good Earth Al Capone Does My Shirts Artemis Fowl I am the Cheese Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories Summer of Fear Hiroshima Flush Enemy of thePeople Red Scarf Girl: A memoir of the Cultural Rev. You Don't Know Me One Bird An Ocean Apart, A World Away Fast Food Nation The Chocolate War The Crystal Cave Making Choices Stuck in Neutral Runner Solitary Blue The Uglies Deathwatch Facing the Music The Piano Lesson I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Pigman and Me Author Anderson, Laurie Asinof, Eliot Avi Barrett, Tracy Buck, Peral S. Choldenko, Gennifer Colfer, Eoin Cormier, Robert Crutcher, Chris Duncan, Lois Hersey, John Hiaasen, Carl Ibsen, Henrik Jiang, Jili Klass, David Mori, Kyoko Namioka, Lensey Schlosser, Eric Stewart, Mary Stewart, Mary Stoddard, Alexandra Trueman, Terry Voight, Cynthia Voight, Cynthia Westerfeld, Scott White, Robb Willey, Margaret Wilson, August Woodson, Jacqueline Zindel, Paul Please note, libraries organize fiction books by author's last name. Story Map Directions: Write and organize the information of the story. Title: Author: The Characters: The Setting: (Time and Place) The Problem or Conflict: Event #1: Event #2 Event #3 Event #4 Event #5 The Conclusion: The Theme: Forrest4Education.com Story Summary Directions: Complete the story summary with information from the story map. The title of the story is ________________________________. The author of the story is ________________________________. Some of the characters are ________________________________________________. The setting is _______________________________________________________. One of the conflicts in the story is ______________________________. These are the events in the story. First, _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________. Then, __________________________________________________. After that, _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________. Next, __________________________________________________________. Also, ___________________________________________________________. Finally, _________________________________________________________. I like the story because _______________________________________. Another reason I like the story is because _______________________________ ____________________________. The theme of the story is______________ ________________________________________________________________. Forrest4Education.com Story Summary: Personal Letter Directions: Write a letter to your teacher or a friend about a book you read. Date: ________________ Dear ________________, I would like to tell you about the book I finished reading. The title of the book is _____________________. The author of the book is __________________________. The book has _____ pages. Some characters in the book are ___________________, _______________, and __________________. The first one, is _________________, is, ______________. The second one, ______________, is ____________________. The setting of the story is at _____________________________________________. One of the problems in the story is ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________. These are the events in the story. First, ____________________________________. Then, _______________________________________________________________. After that, ____________________________________________________________. Finally, ______________________________________________________________. I like the story because ____________________________________________. Another reason I like the story is because ___________________________________ ______________________. I learned from the story that _______________________ _____________________________________________________________________. Sincerely, Forrest4Education.com
