Suggested Summer Reading For Students Entering First Grade Anonymous: Fairy Tales and folk tales including:

Cinderella, The Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, The Little Red Hen, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, etc. It is helpful to know these original stories for when different versions are examined in school. These suggested titles provide a range of reading levels. Series Books: Capucilli: Biscuit Series Hood: Pup And Hound, Level 1 Series Wilhelm: Noodles, Level 1 Series Picture Books: Arnold: Fly Guy books Barrett: Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Brett: The Mitten Gingerbread Baby Carle: The Mixed-Up Chameleon The Very Busy Spider (and other Very titles) Ehlert: Fish Eyes Wag A Tail Feiffer: Bark, George Grant: Chicken Said, Cluck! Henkes: A Good Day many awards Kittens First Full Moon* My Garden Keats: Snowy Day* McNally: In A Cabin In A Wood McCloskey: Make Way For Ducklings* Numeroff: If You Take A Mouse To School (or other Mouse titles) Pilkey: Dragons Fat Cat (and others) Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit Rey: Curious George Rohmann: My Friend Rabbit Scieszka: Trucktown books Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are* Seuss: The Cat in the Hat Swanson: The House In The Night* Willems: Cat the Cat, who is that? (and others from this series) Zion: Harry the Dirty Dog (and others) Waddell: Owl Babies *Caldecott Winner

Suggested Summer Reading For Students Entering Second Grade These suggested titles provide a range of reading levels. Series Books: Adler: Young Cam Jansen/Easy-to Read, Level 2 Series and Cam Jansen DiCamillo: Mercy Watson Series Gutman: My Weird School Series Howe: Pinky And Rex Series Lobel: Frog And Toad Series Osborne: Magic Tree House Series Parish: Amelia Bedelia (be sure to talk about the word plays!) Pilkey: Ricky Ricottas Mighty Robot Series Rylant: Henry And Mudge, Mr. Putter And Tabby, Poppleton Series Picture Books: Allard: Miss Nelson Is Missing (and others) Arnold: Fly Guy books (fabulous and funny) Brett: Gingerbread Friends Burton: The Little House Carle: The Mixed-Up Chameleon Cherry: The Great Kapok Tree DePaola: Strega Nona Jarman: Class Two At The Zoo (Class Three At Sea) Pilkey: Dragons Fat Cat (and the other Dragon books) Rathmann: Officer Buckle And Gloria* Rylant: The Relatives Came Stead: A sick day for Amos McGee* Stein: Interrupting Chicken* Weisner: Tuesday* Willems: An Elephant & Piggie books, Pigeon books, Knuffle Bunny* books Wood: The Napping House Yolen: Owl Moon* Non-Fiction Books: Aardema: Why Mosquitoes Buzz In Peoples Ears* - Folktale Arnosky: Beachcombing: exploring the seashore (many terrific NF titles) Bishop: Spiders, Frogs (and others) Chandra: George Washingtons Teeth Cole: The Magic School Bus books Heller: Chickens Arent the Only Ones Jenkins: Actual Size (many other terrific NF titles) Levine: If You Traveled On The Underground Railroad McDermott: Ananzi The Spider* Folktale Time for Kids: Bears, Ants, Storms (and others) *Caldecott Winner

Suggested Summer Reading For Students Entering Third Grade These suggested titles provide a range of reading levels. Series Books: Abbott: The Secrets of Droon Gutman: My Weird School Howe: Pinky And Rex McMullan: Dragon Slayers Academy Miles: Puppy Place Pilkey: Ricky Ricottas Mighty Robot Roy: Capital Mysteries Stilton: Geronimo Stilton Picture Books: Bunting: So Far From The Sea Frazee: A Couple Of Boys Have The Best Week Ever Gerstein: The Man Who Walked Between The Towers* Kelley: My Life As A Chicken Polacco: Mr. Lincolns Way and other Polacco titles Saunders: The Story Of Darth Vader (Star Wars) Say: Grandfathers Journey* Shulevitz: How I Learned Geography Van Allsburg: Jumanji, Polar Express*, The Wretched Stone Weatherford: Champions On The Bench Fiction: Bowen: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea/Graphic Novel Curtis: Elijah Of Buxton** DiCamillo The Tale Of Despereaux** Hayes: Benny and Penny Toon Books Pennypacker: The Talented Clementine Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret Wallace: Pick of the Litter (check out some of his other titles) Wight: Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods Non-Fiction Books: Arnosky: Many terrific nonfiction titles!! Bishop: Spiders, Frogs Cole: Magic School Bus series Edwards: Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief Florian: Omnibeasts Poetry (Clever wordplay!) Jenkins: Living Color (many others) McDermott: Arrow To The Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale* (other tales are great too!) Nichols: An Arctic Year, In The Rain Forest (We Can Read About Nature series) Patrick: The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth Simon: Earthquakes, The Moon, etc. Caldecott* Newbery**