SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT **for incoming grade 1 students**

SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT
**for incoming grade 1 students**
Welcome to 1st Grade!! To continue to grow as readers and be
prepared for first grade, all upcoming first graders should continue to
read daily over the summer.
Assignment:
• All upcoming first graders are expected to read 60 minutes per week.
• You can choose any book. Some suggested titles are attached.
• All reading should be logged on the Red Raider Reading Log. This is a continued practice
from what we’ve been doing for most of the school year.
• Parents should sign each log when it’s complete.
• Students should select one book they have read and complete the attached assignment.
• Use the reading strategies attached to become a GREAT reader.
Your participation in summer reading has its rewards! You will come to first grade prepared
and ready to learn. AND, you will be included in the Summer Reading Celebration this fall!!
But, if you want EVEN more……..
• The Keyport Public Library and our school have partnered with local businesses to offer
any student who finishes FIVE books a prize!! Just bring in your summer reading logs
that show your completion to the Keyport Public Library on Wednesday or Thursday
mornings between 10 and 12 or during any Keyport Summer Reading Nights ( July 10 th
and August 7 th from 6-8) and receive your certificate.
• Barnes and Noble will give a FREE book to any student who logs and reads 8 books this
summer! Use the log attached, and when you’re finished, bring it to Barnes and Noble
in Holmdel and select your free book from the options available.
• AND if you’re REALLY motivated (and we hope you are!), sign – up for the Summer
Reading Club by June 30 th at the Keyport Public Library. Then, get your packet on July 1 st
and read ten books by the end of the challenge to attend the Sundae Party in August.
Top three readers in each age group (4-6, 7-10, and 11-13) will also receive a Barnes and
Noble gift card!

Name: _____________________
The best book I read this summer was
_____________________________________
by _________________________________. Write
about your favorite part on the lines below and draw a
picture of it in the box.
_____________________________________________
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Suggested Reading List
(Students Entering Grades 1 and 2)
Below are some suggestions for summer reading. It contains a variety of genre and interests that
also illustrate the quality and complexity of the suggested reading materials presented in the
Common Core. If available, both the Guided Reading and DRA level for each book are included.
Use these as a guide to select books that are good choices; however, students are free to read any
books they choose. Please visit the Keyport Public Library to view and select your summer reading
books.
Fiction: Picture Books and
General Fiction
Amelia Bedelia (series) – L/28
Parish, Peggy
Angela Weaves a Dream – N/A
Solá, Michèle
Anno’s Journey –N/A
Anno, Mitsumasa
Arthur (series) – M/28
Brown, Marc
Baseball in the Barrio – P/38
Horenstein, Henry
A Bear Called Paddington (series) –T/44
Bond, Michael
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? – C/3-4
Martin, Bill, Jr.
Butterfly Boy – N/30-34
Kroll, Virginia
Caps for Sale –K/16-18
Slobodkina, Esphyr
The Cat in the Hat – J/16
Dr. Seuss
Corduroy –K/18
Freeman, Don
Dinosaur Dream – M/28
Nolan, Dennis
The Doorbell Rang –J/16
Hutchins, Pat
Flossie and the Fox –O/34
McKissack, Patricia
Frog and Toad Are Friends (series) K/18
– Lobel, Arnold
The Gingerbread Man – J/16-18
Aylesworth, Jim
The Giving Tree – J/16
Silverstein, Shel
Goodnight Moon – H/14
Brown, Margaret Wise
Grandfather’s Journey –O/34
Say, Allen
Green Eggs and Ham – J/16
Dr. Seuss
Harold and the Purple Crayon –K/18
Johnson, Crockett

Hattie and the Fox –I/16
Fox, Mem
Henry and Mudge (series) – J/16
Rylant, Cynthia
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie--K/18
(series) –
Numeroff, Laura
Just So Stories –N/A
Kipling, Rudyard
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse –M/20-24
Henkes, Kevin
The Little Engine That Could –I/15-17
Piper, Watty
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile – L/20
Waber, Bernard
Make Way for Ducklings – L/20
McCloskey, Robert
Millions of Cats –N/30
Gag, Wanda
The Mitten – N/A
Brett, Jan
A Mother for Choco – J/18-20
Kasza, Keiko
The Mouse and the Motorcycle – O/34
Cleary, Beverly
Now One Foot, Now the Other – L/20
de Paola, Tomie
The Polar Express – N/30
Van Allsburg, Chris
Rosie’s Walk – F/10
Hutchins, Pat
The Snowy Day –J/16
Keats, Ezra Jack
Song of the Swallows –O/38
Politi, Leo
Stone Soup – J/18-20
McGovern, Ann
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – N/30-34
Steig, William
The Tale of Peter Rabbit – L/20
Potter, Beatrix
Tar Beach –P/38
Ringgold, Faith
Ten Black Dots –F/10
Crews, Donald
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed – J/18-20
Mayer, Mercer
The Three Little Pigs – M/28
Kellogg, Steven
The Ugly Duckling – J/18-20
Andersen, Hans Christian
(original author)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – J/18-20
Carle, Eric
Where the Wild Things Are – J/18-20
Sendak, Maurice

Winnie the Pooh – N/A
Milne, A. A.
Folklore/Fairy Tales/Mythology
The Golden Goose – N/30
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
(original authors)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears – M/28
Brett, Jan
John Henry: An American Legend – M/28
Keats, Ezra Jack
Little Red Riding Hood – L/20
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story
from China –S/40
Young, Ed
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters –T/50
Steptoe, John
Paul Bunyan – O/34
Kellogg, Steven
Pecos Bill – N/30
Kellogg, Steven
The Story of Johnny Appleseed – J/16-18
Aliki
The Story of Jumping Mouse – P/38
Steptoe, John
Three Billy Goats Gruff –N/A
Asbjrnsen, Peter Christen
The Village of Round and Square
Houses – M/28
Grifalconi, Ann
Poetry
The Big Red Barn – H/5
Brown, Margaret Wise
Chicken Soup with Rice – M/8-9
Sendak, Maurice
Child’s Garden of Verses –N/A
Stevenson, Robert Lewis
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight – N/A
Prelutsky, Jack
Every Time I Climb a Tree – N/A
McCord, David
Flicker Flash – O/34
Graham, Joan Bransfield
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed
a Fly – H/14
Rounds, Glen
James Marshall’s Mother Goose –N/A
Marshall, James
Owl Moon – O/34
Yolen, Jane
The Wheels on the Bus – N/A
Zelinsky, Paul
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You – J/18
Ciardi, John

Nonfiction: Science, Social
Studies, and Mathematics
About Reptiles: A Guide for Children—L/24
Sill, Cathryn P.
Anno’s Math Games – N/A
Anno, Mitsumasa
Around the World: Who’s Been Here— J/18
– George, Lindsay Barrett
Baby Whale’s Journey – P/38
London, Jonathon
Building a House – H/13-14
Barton, Byron
Check It Out!: The Book about
Libraries – J/18
Gibbons, Gail
A Child’s Book of Art: Discover Great
Paintings – N/A
Micklethwait, Lucy
Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the
Indians –P/38
Aliki
Crawdad Creek – M/28
Sanders, Scott Russell
Digging Up Dinosaurs – P/38
Aliki
Discovering El Niño – N/A
Seibert, Patricia
The Discovery of the Americas – S/40
Maestro, Betsy
Do Animals Dream? – N/A
Pope, Joyce
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science
and Wonder –N/A
Wick, Walter
The Emperor’s Egg – M/28
Jenkins, Martin
Gorilla Walk – N/A
Lewin, Ted and Betsy
Hello, Fish! Visiting the Coral Reef – M/28
Earle, Sylvia
Here Is the African Savanna – L/24
Dunphy, Madeleine
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest – M/28
Jenkins, Steve
How Big Is a Foot? – K/20
Myllar, Rolf
How Tall, How Short, How Far Away
– N/A
Adler, David
Math Counts (series) – N/A
Pluckrose, Henry
My Cheetah Family – N/A
Barfuss, Matto H.
Nature’s Paintbrush – N/A
Stockdale, Susan
Once a Wolf – R/40

Swinburne, Stephen
Outside and Inside Kangaroos – Q/40
Markle, Sandra
A Pill Bug’s Life – I/16
Himmelman, John
Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden – N/A
Levenson, George
Sharks – M/28
Gibbons, Gail
Shelterwood – N/A
Shetterly, Susan Hand
Sugaring Time – S/40
Lasky, Kathryn
Tornadoes –O/34
Simon, Seymour
Biography/Autobiography
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: Mary Anning– M/28
Anhoit, Laurence
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong – M/28
Jenkins, Leonard
Glorious Flight Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot –N/30
Provenson, Alice
Alexander Calder and His Magical
Mobiles –N/A
Lipman, Jean
A Picture Book of George
Washington Carver – N/30
Adler, David
Good Queen Bess: The Story of
Elizabeth I – N/A
Vennema, Peter
Duke Ellington – L/24
Pinkney, Andrea
Galileo and the Magic Numbers – N/A
Rosen, Sidney
Honest Abe – L/24
Kunhardt, Edith
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of
Rosa Parks – P/38
Ringgold, Faith
Wilma Unlimited – P/38
Krull, Kathleen
William Shakespeare and the Globe—N/A
Aliki
Mark Twain? What Kind of Name
Is That? – N/A
Quakenbush, Robert
Magazines/Periodicals
Big Backyard
Humpty Dumpty
Jack and Jill
Lady Bug
Ranger Rick
Scholastic News
Stone Soup: A Magazine by Children
Time for Kids

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