SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT **for incoming grade 4 students**

SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT
**for incoming grade 4 students**
Fourth grade is an “Adventure”!!! To be prepared for this
adventure, every upcoming fourth grader will be required to read
two books this summer from the fourth grade summer reading list
that is attached to this assignment. All of the books listed have a
common theme – ADVENTURE!
Assignment:
• Select TWO books from the attached list. Use the levels as a guide.
• Log your reading minutes on the Red Raider Reading Log.
• Select ONE book to complete the writing assignment. The topic of your writing piece is
“Adventure.” You will write how the book‘s theme is proven by writing about why
adventure is its theme. As you practiced in school, you should use examples from the
text to prove your theme.
• Your response will be collected during the first week of school and graded using the
rubric attached.
Your participation in summer reading has its rewards! You will come to fourth 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: ______________________
THEME: ADVENTURE
This summer I read _____________________________
by _____________________. It was a story about
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
________________________. The theme of the book
was adventure. It was adventurous because
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_________________.
Another part of the book that was adventurous was
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
____________________________________________.

Grade 4 Summer Reading
“Adventure”
Author Title Guided Reading
Level
Roald Dahl Fantastic Mr. Fox P 38
DRA Level
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
George’s
Marvelous
Medicine
The Giraffe and
the Pelly and Me
P 38
P 38
Ruth Stiles Garrett
My Father’s
Dragon
N 30
Stephen Manes
Stephen Manes
Patricia
Maclachlan
Make Four Million
Dollars by Next
Thursday
Be a Perfect
Person In Just
Three Days
Arthur, For the
Very First Time
N 30
N 30
R 40
Patricia
Maclachlan
Sarah, Plain and
Tall
R 40
Patricia
Maclachlan
Journey S 40
Jerry Spinelli
The Bathwater
Gang
L 24
Jerry Spinelli The Library Card R 40

Common Core Standards:
Rubric for Summer Reading Assignment
(Students Entering Grade 4)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1a Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an
organizational structure that lists reasons.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1b Provide reasons that support the opinion.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1c Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect
opinion and reasons.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.1d Provide a concluding statement or section.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the
central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Approaching Standards (C) Meeting Standards(B) Exceeding Standards(A)
• Response may lack an
opening and/or closing.
• Response contains an
opening and closing
• Response contains an
opening and closing
• Response makes little to statement.
statement.
no attempt to cite
textual evidence to
support theme.
• Response cites textual
evidence to support
theme.
• Response cites multiple
pieces of textual
evidence and
• Response shows only a • Response shows an
explanation of evidence.
minimal understanding
of the task.
understanding of the
task.
• Response is organized
with use of transitional
• Response contains
• Response is organized
words and/or phrases.
incomplete or incorrect
sentence structure.
and uses transitions
between ideas.
• Response extends
understanding of the
• Response is minimal or
disorganized.
• Sentence structure
errors are few, and don’t
task with the use of an
extension.
• Patterns of mechanical
interfere with meaning. • Sentence structure
errors evident.
• No consistent pattern of
mechanical errors.
contains few, if any
errors.
• Very few, if any, errors in
mechanics.
Name: ________________________________________