Suggested Summer Reading List 2017
For Rising Second Graders
Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbor recognizes the importance of ensuring that students continue to strengthen reading skills and develop a passion for reading beyond instructional requirements. Experience and current research support the idea that students who are actively engaged in reading throughout the summer demonstrate improved academic performance during the following school year. Cultivating pleasurable reading helps build reading skills and enriches students’ knowledge base. In addition, increased independent summer reading of both literary and non-fiction text helps prepare students to be successful in meeting more rigorous academic standards as schools transition to Language Arts Florida Standards.
To complete the mandatory summer reading activities, “Where the Wild Things Are”By: Maurice Sedak,must be purchased. You may purchase or order this book from any local bookstore or online. Attached, you will see the suggested activities and the suggested summer reading list. Your child is required to read "Where the Wild Things Are" along with the completion of one activity.It is highly suggested that your child look over the reading list and choose at least two other books to read over the course of the summer.
At the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year,your child's teacher will collect the activities and it will be graded.
Happy Reading!
The Second Grade Teachers
Summer Reading Activities
*Choose and complete one activity from the following list after reading
“Where the Wild Things Are”By: Maurice Sedak-Fiction
● Make a picture timeline of all the events in the book, labeling each of the events to provide facts, definitions, or important points taking place.
● Make a poster about the book using one or two of the following media: paint, water colors, crayons, chalk, real materials. Write an explanation of your poster.
● Rewrite the story, event or concept in a picture book form.
●Using a shoe box, create a diorama (three-dimensional scene which includes models of people, building, plants, and animals) of an important even in the book. Write a narrative recounting the event.
●Draw a map of the book’s setting. Explain the setting in two or three sentences below the picture.
●Cut out magazine pictures to make a collage or poster illustrating the central idea or theme of the book. Add descriptive words to convey the central idea or theme of the book.
*Optional activity with the additional books read during the summer break!
●Keep a reading log/journal of the books you have read. Include the title(s), a one-sentence summary of each, and write two or three new words you have learned from your reading.
Suggested Summer Reading Book List for Rising Second Graders
Alexander and the Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by: Judith Viorst- Fiction
Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor by: Peggy Parish- Fiction
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by: Deborah Heiligman- Nonfiction
La Cucarachita Martina by: Hector Cuenca- Folktale/ Multicultural
Earth danceBy: Joanne Ryder- Fiction/ Multicultural
Ellington Was Not a Street By: Ntozake Shange -Poetry/ Multicultural
The Eye of the Whale: A Rescue StoryBy: Jennifer O'Connell -Nonfiction
Franklin Goes to the HospitalBy: Sharon Jennings- Fiction
Henry and Mudge and the Big SleepoverBy: Cynthia Rylant -Fiction
I, Too, Am AmericaBy: Langston Hughes-Nonfiction
El Lorito PelonBy: Hilda Perera- Fiction
Mouse SoupBy: Arnold Lobel -Fiction
Officer Buckle and Gloria By: Peggy Rathmann- Fiction
Polar Bear NightBy: Lauren Thompson- Fiction
Poppleton Forever Cynthia Rylant Mark Teague (Illus) Fiction
Rosa's Room By: Barbara Bottner -Fiction
Rutherford B., Who Was He? : Poems About Our Presidentsby: Marilyn Singer- Nonfiction
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmosby: Stephanie Roth Sisson -Nonfiction
Stink and the World's Worst Super-stinky SneakersBy: Megan McDonald -Fiction
Cloudy with a Chance of MeatballsBy: Judy Barrett-Fiction