Vacation reading program

2013
Lincoln School
VACATION
READING
PROGRAM
Ana Isabel Quesada Baudrit
Sharon Ugalde Soto
D
ear Parents,
We are proud to present our Vacation Reading Program. We hope that with the help
of this program families can spend plenty of enjoyable time reading, which includes
reading independently or reading to one another. We believe that during vacation it is
important to allow for plenty of time for your child to play, relax and be with friends
and family. This is why the main goal of this program is to give children the
opportunity to enjoy reading, and instill a lifelong love for books and the written word.
This is also an opportunity to do what research suggests as the most effective strategy
to help children retain the skills they worked so hard developing all year long.
If your child wants to participate, just have your child keep track of the books she/he
has read during vacation using the reading log on the last page of the booklet. When
vacation is over, your child can turn in the reading log to the library to earn a special
certificate.
In this booklet, you will find a variety of information regarding the use of the library,
from statistics to online access. You will also find a list of the benefits that reading
brings famous authors, recommended books and resources online.
Enjoy the vacation, and enjoy reading!
Michael Holman
Elementary Curriculum Coordinator
Keep on reading during vacation
Our school community READS! The statistics below offer evidence of the importance that students,
teachers and parents give to reading for pleasure and for learning. Destiny, the elementary library
data base, registered 1,434 costumers during the current school year: the 46% of the total were
students (1st. to 5th. graders), 11% elementary teachers, 30% parents and 13% other members of the
staff (see graphic No.1).
The yearly circulations were 29,984. From this total, 49% (14,740) were resources checked out by
students, 23% (6,917) by teachers, 27% (7,945) by parents and 1% (382) by other members of the
staff (see graphic No.2). Additionally, the Destiny data base reports an increasing number of visits to
the library's eBooks collection. From August 2012 to this day, there are 50 Top eBooks that were
opened online and hopefully read 791 times. The new version of Destiny will allow our patrons to
download the eBooks we are buying and offer statistics of these loans.
The library staff is pleased to offer an updated version of the Reading Vacation Program and invites
our school community to KEEP ON READING during vacation.
Ana Isabel Quesada Baudrit
Library Coordinator. Lincoln School
[email protected]
Elementary Library
Patrons
Others
13%
Parents
30%
Elem.Teache
rs
11%
Graphic N° 1
Elem.Studen
ts
46%
Elementary Library
Yearly Loans
Parents
27%
Others
1%
Elem.Studen
ts
49%
Elem.Teache
rs
23%
Graphic N° 2
How can I know which books
the library has?
Just go to
, our library collection database
To access it go to
http://libraries.lincoln.ed.cr/
And if you want to do
some research?
Go to our database!

To access it go to:
http://search.ebscohost.com/
Login and password:
Ask the librarians for help
Ten good reasons
to read
By Ms. Nancy Carr
1. You have entertainment no
matter where you are.
2. It is truly a skill for life.
3. It
builds
vocabulary
language skills.
and
4. You can travel around the
world without ever leaving
home.
5. A good story can make you laugh, cry, think about the world around
you, help you to change and form opinions, and let you dream.
6. Developing good reading skills helps students do better in all subjects.
7. It is good way to start a conversation with your children about
friendships, relationships, or any other subject.
8. It’s better than the television. You can stop and start whenever you
want and there are no commercials.
9. It stimulates the imagination and creativity.
10.
There is a wonderful variety to choose from and our school
library will lend them to you during the vacation.
How to access our
electronic books!
The elementary library has now more than 250 eBooks for
you to read!
You can do that by following the next steps:
Go to our web page: http://libraries.lincoln.ed.cr/
Click on the catalog button
In the “material type” option, choose eBooks
Search for the subject, title, series or author you’re interested in
(If you want to see the entire collection of eBooks don’t write
anything in the search bar, just click on keyword)
When you choose a book, click on the title and press the button
‘Read online’. Ask your librarian for the password.
To close the eBook, click on the backpack in the right top
corner of the screen
Top 10 Books
Chosen by preschoolers
Green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss
The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle
No, David! By David Shannon
Brown bear, brown bear, what do you
see? By Bill Martin
5. The napping house by Audrey Wood
6. Go away, big green monster by Ed
Emberly
7. If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura
Numeroff
8. Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
9. Click, clack, moo cows that type by
Doreen Cronin
10. Ish by Peter Reynolds
1.
2.
3.
4.
Chosen by lower grades
(1-3)
1. The cat in the hat by Dr. Seuss
2. Don’t’ let the pigeon drive the bus! By
Mo Willems
3. The giving tree by Shel Silverstein
4. Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
5. My weird school series by Dan Gutman
6. Hi, fly guy! By Tedd Arnold
7. Tales of a third grade nothing by Judy
Blume
8. A to Z mysteries series by Ron Roy
9. The zack files series by Dan Greenburg
10. Tonight on the titanic (Magic tree house
series) by Mary Pope Osborne
Chosen by higher grades (4-5)
1. Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
2. A series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket
3. Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
4. Eragon series by Christopher Paolini
5. Ranger’s apprentice series by John Flanagan
6. Frindle and other books by Andrew Clements
7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
8. Dragon slippers by Jessica Day George
9. The name of this book is secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
10. Brian’s hunt by Gary Paulsen
Recommended authors
For preschool students
Arnosky, Jim
Dunbar, Joyce
Asch, Frank
Emberly, Ed
Adams, Pam
Eastman, P. D.
Ada, Alma Flor
Ehlert, Lois
Ahlberg, Janet
Fox, Mem
Arnold, Tedd
Freeman, Don
Brett, Jan
Falconer, Ian
Browne, Anthony
Fleming, Denise
Bang, Molly
Florian, Douglas
Banks, Kate
Keats, Ezra Jack
Barret, Judi
Gliori, Debi
Barton, Byron
Hill, Eric
Becker, John
Hoban, Tana
Bellah, Melanie
Hoff, Syd
Berenstain, Stan
Hutchins, Pat
Bridwell, Norman
Inkpen, Mick
Bonsall, Crosby
Jonas, Ann
Boynton, Sandra
Krauss, Ruth
Brown, Marc
London, Jonathan
Burn, Marilyn
Marshall, James
Calmeson, Stephanie
Martin, Bill
Capucilli, Alyssa
Mayer, Mercer
Carle, Eric
McNaughton, Colin
Carlson, Nancy
Most, Bernard
Cauley, Lorinda
Munsch, Robert
Cole, Joanna
Murphy, Mary
Coxe, Molly
Numeroff, Laura
Cronin, Doreen
Raffi
Curtis, Jamie Lee
Seuss, Dr.
Crews, Donald
Sendak, Maurice
De Paola, Tomie
Willems, Mo
De Regniers,
Beatrice
Wilson, Karma
For lower grades students (1 – 3)
Abbot, Tony
Anholt, Laurence
Berenstain, Stan
Brown, Marc
Benton, Jim
Carle, Eric
Cleary, Beverly
Creech, Sahron
Cabbot, Meg
De Paola, Tomie
Eastman, P. D.
Ehlert, Lois
Fox, Mem
Friedman, Laurie
Gliori, Debi
Greenburg, Dan
Hallinan, P. K.
Henkes, Kevin
Hoff, Syd
Hutchins, Pat
Jonas, Ann
Kasza, Keiko
Keats, Ezra
Keller, Holly
Kellogg, Steven
Lionni, Leo
Lobel, Arnold
London, Jonathan
Munsch, Robert
Most, Bernard
Mercer, Sienna
Mercer, Mayer
McCloskey, Robert
McNaughton, Colin
McPhail, David
Numeroff, Laura
Osborne, Mary Pope
Peet, Bill
Polacco, Patricia
Parish, Peggy
Park, Barbara
Pilkey, Dav
Rylant, Cynthia
Ron, Roy
Stilton, Geronimo
Silverstein, Shel
Seuss, Dr.
Thaler, Mike
Van Allsburg, Chris
Viors, Judith
Waber, Bernard
Willems, Mo
Yolen, Jane
Zion, Gene
SUGGESTED READING FOR
4TH AND 5TH GRADERS
Series
Books
Alice series – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Amber Brown series – Paula Danzinger
Anastasia series – Lois Lowry
Alex Rider adventures – Anthony Horowitz
Books of Ember, The – Jeanne Duprau
Charlie Bones series – Jenny Nimmo
Choose your own adventures series – R.A.
Montgomery
Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
Dragon series – Jessica Day George
Eragon series – Christopher Paolini
Fablehaven – Brandon Mull
Fuge series – Judy Blume
Great brain adventure – John Fitzgerald
Hardy Boys series – Franklin W. Dixon
Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
Help, I’m trapped in a… series – Todd
Strassar
How to train your dragon series –
Cressida Cowell
Inkheart series – Cornelia Funke
Joey Pigza series – Jack Gantos
Magic shop book series – Bruce Coville
Marvin Redpost series – Louis Sachar
My weird school series – Dan Gutman
Nancy Drew series – Carolyn Keene
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series –
Rick Riordan
Ranger’s
apprentice
series
–
John
Flanagan
Secret series – Pseudonymous Bosch
Septimous Heap series – Angie Sage
A series of unfortunate events – Lemony
Snicket
Sport series for kids – Matt Christopher
The 39 clues series – Rick Riordan, et. al.
Time warp trio series – Jon Sciezka
Tunnel series – Roderick Gordon
Wayside stories series – Louis Sachar
Wrinkle in time, A - Madeleine L’Engle
Anne of green gables – L. M. Montgomery
Are you there god? It’s me, Margaret – Judy Blume
BFG, The – Roald Dahl
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
Borrower, The – Mary Norton
Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the chocolate factory – Roald Dahl
Charlie and the great glass elevator – Roald Dahl
Chocolate fever – Robert Kimmel Smith
Danny the champion of the world – Roald Dahl
Dear Mr. Henshaw – Beverly Cleary
Dogs don’t tell jokes – Louis Sachar
Eat your poison, dear – James Howe
Ella enchanted – Gail Levine
Eleven birthdays – Wendy Mass
Emerald Atlas, The – John Stephens
Fourth grade fuss – Johanna Hurwitz
Fifth grade dragon – David A. Adler
George’s secret key to the universe – L. and S. Hawking
Ginger Pye – Eleanor Estes
Holes – Louis Sachar
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
How to eat fried worms – Thomas Rockwell
Indian in the cupboard, The – Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the blue dolphins – Scott O’Dell
Kid in the red jacket, The – Barbara Park
Kid who ran for president, The – Dan Gutman
Lost treasure of Tuckernuck, The – Emily Fairlie
Magician’s elephant – Kate Dicamillo
Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
Middle school : the worst years – James Patterson
No more dead dogs – Gordon Korman
No talking – Andrew Clements
Number the stars – Lois Lowry
Operation dump the chump – Barbara Park
Sarah, plain and tall – Patricia MacLachlan
Secret garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shiloh – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Thief lord, The – Cornelia Funke
Ungifted – Gordon Korman
When you reach me – Rebecca Stead
Wonderstruck – Brian Selznick
Interesting links
 http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
This page is a great source of information about some of the best children's writers and illustrators.
 http://www.greatschools.org/students/books/books-for-kids-grades-k5.gs?content=456
Our book lists for kids, grades K-5. Browse by grade level to find great books for your child
recommended by our panel of children's book experts.
 http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb/index.cfm
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best
children's books.
 http://www.readingrockets.org/books/
Reading rockets is a great place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and
authors. Includes reviews of the newest titles, author’s interviews and many more special features.
 http://library.arlingtonva.us/departments/libraries/kids/librarieskidskidscorner
.aspx?lnslinkid=1112
Arlington Public Library’s Kids’ Corner: Booklists & More, Fun Sites, Learning to Read and… Cuentos y
Más, one-of-a-kind bilingual program starring library storyteller Mariela Aguilar.
 http://www.goodreads.com/genres/childrens?original_shelf=children-s
Goodreads provides lists of the new best books for children, all time classics and best series, amongst
many others. Besides that, it includes summaries and reviews from readers from all over the world.
 http://gws.ala.org/
This page gives parent’s great websites about numerous topics for children.
 http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
The International Children’s Digital Library is an amazing source for free eBooks.
 http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp
Tumble book library is an online collection of animated talking picture books which teach young children
the joys of reading in a format they'll love.
Just print, cut and paste them on a card board and they’re ready!
Lincoln School
Lincoln School
Elementary
Elementary
Library
Library
Vacation reading program
Vacation reading program
2013
2013
Vacation reading program
Reading records
These are the books that I read during vacation. I chose the titles according to my interest
and reading level
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Parent’s Signature:
Please fill out as many forms as you need and return them to the library the first
day of the 2013-2014 school year. The participants will receive a special certificate.