Summer Reading for Students Entering Fourth Grade

1 Summer Reading for Students Entering Fourth Grade 2015 2016 School Year Encourage Your Student to Have Fun Reading This Summer ! Fourth and Fifth Grade Students are required to read or listen to three books over the Summer . Choose at least one book from each of the three categories below: 1. One fiction book 2. One non-fiction book 3. One book of your choice or recommended by the public librarian, school media specialist or teacher. See instructions on the Summer Reading cover letter c oncerning the activities. The Medina County Public Library will be able to assist you in your choices. Fun Summer Reading Activities These suggestions can be used to help enhance your family's Summer Reading experience: *Talk about the book you read to *Play a board game your parents and friends *Bike ride to the park and read *Write your own story *Read the map at the zoo or amusement *Write a letter to your park and the menu at a restaurant grandparents, relatives or friends *Visit educational websites: *Go to the library and participate in the Summer Reading program (has built in MP3 player for kids).

2 Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade My Summer Reading Log Grades 4 5. Reading log is due by August 28, 2015. Name: _____ Grade :_____ Teacher:_____ 1. Book Title: _____. Author: _____. Month Read (circle one): June July August Book's Genre (circle one): Fiction Non-Fiction Parent/Guardian's Signature: _____ 2. Book Title: _____. Author: _____. Month Read (circle one): June July August Book's Genre (circle one): Fiction Non-Fiction Parent/Guardian's Signature: _____ 3. Book Title: _____. Author: _____. Month Read (circle one): June July August Book's Genre (circle one): Fiction Non-Fiction Parent/Guardian's Signature: _____ Parents may use the following questions to discuss the book with your child: Explain in detail the main character(s) in your book. What would you change in the story? Explain using details. What was the message or theme learned in the book?

3 Would you recommend this book to someone? Why or why not? What was the author's purpose (reason) for writing this book? Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Grades 4 5. Elementary Summer Reading Rubric Name:_____ Teacher:_____ Date:_____. Teacher Score & 3 2 1 Student Comments Score Reading Log Three books logged Two books logged One book logged correctly with correctly with correctly with complete book: complete book: complete book: Title Title Title Author Author Author Parent/guardian Parent/guardian Parent/guardian signature signature signature OR may be missing OR may be missing one or two parts of three or more parts Reading log of Reading log Graphic Completed graphic Graphic organizer is Graphic organizer is organizer missing some parts missing many parts Organizer Content of All components in Graphic organizer Minimal details given fiction or non-fiction completed but few on graphic Organizer graphic organizer specific details are organizer.

4 It completed in full given and shows contains some detail and shows some evidence of missing parts, not much understanding understanding complete explanations or one- word answers Effort/Quality Wrote answers doing Wrote answers Little effort was your personal best showing good effort; given during writing;. writing; paper is neat paper is mostly neat paper is not neat Please attach this rubric to your Reading log and graphic organizer. Choose the FICTION. or NON-FICTION Graphic Organizer that matches your story. Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Graphic Organizer FICTION. Name: _____ Date: _____ Title: _____. Setting:_____ Draw a Picture _____. _____. _____. Characters:_____ Draw a Picture _____. _____. _____. Problem:_____ Draw a Picture _____. _____. _____. Events: Ending: _____. _____. _____. Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Graphic Organizer Non-Fiction Name: _____ Date: _____.

5 Title: _____ Main Idea: Supporting Detail: Draw a Picture Supporting Detail: Draw a Picture Supporting Detail: Draw a Picture Conclusion Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Suggested Reading & Author List for Students Entering 4th & 5th Grades Grades 4 and 5 Book Titles Author Lexile Score A Dog Called Kitty Wallace, Bill 710L All The Lovely Bad Ones Downing Hahn, Mary 670L American Tall Tales Stoutenbery, Adrian 910L Anastasia's Album Brewster, Hugh 1010L Artemis Fowl Colfer, Eoin 600L Baseball Fever Hurwitz, Johanna 760L Be A Perfect Person Manes, Stephen 720L Because Of Winn Dixie DiCamillo, Kate 610L Beetles, Lightly Toasted Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 950L Ben & Me Lawson, Robert 1010L Beezus and Ramona Cleary, Beverly 780L Brighty of the Grand Canyon Henry, Marguerite 880L Bunnicula: A Rabbut Tale of Mystery Howe, Deborah 700L Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol Ryrie 890L Call It Courage Sperry, Armstrong 830L Call Of The Wolves Berger, Melvin 830L Charlotte's Web White, 680L Chocolate Fever Smith, Robert Kimmel 680L Chocolate Touch Catling, Patrick 770L Cowboys: Roundup on an American Ranch Anderson, Joan 990L Curious George Takes a Job Rey, 570L Darnell Rock Reporting Myers, Walter Dean 710L Dear Dr.

6 Bell Your Friend, Helen Keller St. George, Judith 1180L Diary of a Wimpy Kid Kinney, Jeff 950L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules Kinney, Jeff 910L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw Kinney, Jeff 970L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Days Kinney, Jeff 1010L Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Ugly Truth Kinney, Jeff no rating Don't Know Much about the Pilgrims Davis, Kenneth 760L Dragon War Yep, Laurence 850L Duel of the Ironclads: The Monitor vs. the Virginia O'Brien, Robert 970L Dust Bowl Heinrichs, Ann 750L Einstein Anderson, Gigantic Ants & Other Simon, Seymour 680L Cases Einstein Anderson, Wings of Darkness Simon, Seymour 730L Einstein Anderson, Howling Dog & Other Simon, Seymour 760L Cases Einstein Anderson, Invisible Man & Other Cases Simon, Seymour 830L Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Einstein Anderson, Time Machine & Other Simon, Seymour 620L Cases Einstein Anderson, Mysterious Lights & Other Simon, Seymour 780L Cases Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan 750L Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail Kudlinski, Kathleen V.

7 500L Faithful Friend San Souci, Robert D. 850L Fifth Grade : here Comes trouble McKenna, Colleen 710L Fire in the Sky Gunderson, J. 490L Flunking of Joshua T. Bates Shreve, Susan 890L Ghost Sitter Griffin, Peni 700L Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Turner, Pamela S. 910L Apes Great Chicago Fire Nobleman, Marc Tyler 960L Half Magic Eager, Edward 830L Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh, Louis 760L Heat Lupica, Mike 940L Help, I'm a Prisoner in the Library Clifford, Eth 630L Homer Price McCloskey, Robert 1000L Houdini Box Selznick, Brian 840L How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas 650L If You Lived When There Was Slavery in Kamma, Anne 800L America? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Lord, Bette Bao 730L Inside the Hindenburg Majoor, Mirelle 1100L Island of the Blue Dolphin O'Dell, Scott 1000L Jaguar Smith, Roland 690L Jar of Dreams Uchida, Yoshiko 970L Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Gantos, Jack 970L Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther 840L Johnstown Flood Nobleman, Marc Tyler 930L Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to Bierman, Carol 750L America Julie of the Wolves George, Jean Craighead 860L Leepike Ridge Wilson, 780L Louise, Soccer Star Krensky, Stephen 470L Mick Harte Was here Park, Barbara 730L Monkey Island Fox, Paula 830L More Stories to solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the Shannon, George 810L World Mr.

8 Lincoln's Drummer Wisler, G. Clifton 800L Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater, Richard 910L Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH O'Conner, Robert C. 790L Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Steptoe, John 720L My Brother Sam Is Dead Collier, James, L 770L My Daniel Conrad, Pam 780L My Side of the Mountain Craighead George, Jean 810L Navajo Code Talkers Aaseng, Nathan 1170L Notes from a Midnight Driver Sonnenblick, Jordan 930L Nothing Wrong with a Three Legged Dog McNamee, Graham 530L Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade DeClements, Barthe 600L Number the Stars Lowry, Lois 670L On Board the Titanic: What Was It Like When Tanaka, Shelley 800L The Great Liner Sank? One Eyed Cat Fox, Paula 1000L Orphan Trains Flanagan, Alice K. 1010L Owls in the Family Mowat, Farley 980L Passage to Freedom? The Sugihara Story Mochizuki, Ken AD670L Penny from Heaven Holm, Jennifer 730L Pick of the Litter Wallace, Bill 680L Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, Astrid 870L Polar: The Titanic Bear Spedden, Daisy 1010L Pony Express Kinney Williams, J 1060L Return of Meteor Boy Boniface, William 900L Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred D.

9 920L Ramona's World Cleary, Beverly 750L. Running out of time Haddix, Margaret Peterson 730L. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Coerr, Eleanor 630L Secrets of Dripping Fang: Treachery and Batrayal of Jolly Greenburg, Dan 750L Days Seven Spiders Spinning Maguire, Gregordy 830L Seven Wonders of Sassafras Spring Birney, Betty G. 790L Shiloh Naylor, Phyllis R. 890L Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth George 770L. Someone Named Eva Wolf, Joan M. 820L Song of the Trees Taylor, Mildred D. 710L Standoff Trumbauer, Lisa GN570L Stealing Home Stolz, Mary 750L Stories to Solve Shannon, George 810L Storm of the Century Peters, Stephanie GN550L Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground McMullan, Kate 630L Railroad Sunwing Oppel, Kenneth 680L Brunswick City Schools Students Entering Fourth or Fifth Grade Swindle Korman, Gordon 710L Tale Of Despereaux DiCamillo, Kate 670L Teammates Goldenbock, Peter 930L The Best School Year Ever Robinson, Barbara 1020L The Boxcar Children, Animal Shelter Warner, Gertrude Chandler 700L Mystery The Boxcar Children, Chocolate Sundae Warner, Gertrude Chandler 690L Mystery The Boxcar Children, Secret of the Mask Warner, Gertrude Chandler 670L The Boxcar Children, Rock n' Roll Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 660L The Boxcar Children, Poison Frog Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 660L The Boxcar Children, Giant Yo Yo Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 650L The Boxcar Children, Pizza Mystery Warner, Gertrude Chandler 640L The Broccoli Tapes Slepian.

10 Jan 630L The Brooklyn Bridge Mann, Elizabeth 820L The Buried City of Pompeii: What It Was Like When Vesuvius Tanaka, Shelley 880L Exploded The Castle in the Attic Winthrop, Elizabeth 750L The Comeback Dog Thomas, Jane Resh 810L The Cricket in Times Square Selden, George 780L The Dinosaur of Waterhouse Hawkins Kerley, Barbara AD550L The Door in the Wall DeAngeli, Marguerite 990L The Egypt Game Keatley Snyder, Zilpha 1010L The Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient O'Connor, Jane 980L China The Enormous Egg Butterworth, Oliver 900L The Fear Place Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 810L The Flight of the Silver Turtle Fardell, John 990L The Great Brain Fitzgerald, John D. 840L The House of Dies Drear Hamilton, Virginia 670L The House With a Clock in Its Walls Bellairs, John 800L The Incredible Journey Brunford, Sheila 1320L The Indian in the Cupboard Banks, Lynn Reid 780L The Lightning Thief Riordan, Rick 740L The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis, 940L The Many Rides of Paul Revere Giblin, James 1060L The Red Cap Wisler, G.