St. Juliana Catholic
School
Summer Reading –
Students entering Kindergarten
Educators consider
summer reading very important in developing life-long reading habits, in
maintaining literacy skills and in promoting reading for pleasure. Studies have
repeatedly shown that children who continue to read during the summer months
perform better when school resumes in the fall.
Jim Cornish,
Classroom Connect, May 2003.
Students in grades
Kindergarten are asked to:
**Read or be read to
every day
**Keep a reading log
(magazines count!)
**Turn in the reading
log to their teacher
at the start of school
Helpful Hints
1.
Discuss
the books with your child as they read. Have them summarize the event, identify
the characters, make predictions, and tell you the sequence of the story. This
helps them with their comprehension skills.
2.
Read with
your child. Set aside time each day for family reading.
3.
Remember,
although your child may need assistance, encourage them to do as much as they
can by themselves.
Attached is a copy of a reading log. For lists of suggested series and authors
for Primary students, a list of internet resources, and additional copies of the
reading log, visit out school website:
www.saintjuliana.org select “Summer Reading”
Suggested Summer Reading List
for Students
entering Kindergarten
ABC
A My Name is Alice - Jane Bayer
ABC, I Like Me! - Nancy Carlson
Afrobets - Cheryl Hudson
ANTics!: an alphabetical anthology - Catherine Hepworth
The Z Was Zapped - Chris Van Allsburg
Colors
Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? - Tana Hoban
Mary Wore Her Red Dress… - Merle Peek
Mouse Paint - Ellen Stoll Walsh
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf - Lois Elhert
Who Said Red? - Mary Serfozo
Counting
Arctic Fives Arrive - Elinor J. Pincze
Five Little Monkeys - Eileen Christelow
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss
One Hungry Monster - Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
Ten Black Dots - Donald Crews
Fables/Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables - Lisbeth Zwerger
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - Verna Aardema
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Brian Karas
Stone Soup - Marcia Wise Brown
Seven Blind Mice - Ed Young
Families
A Chair for My Mother - Vera Williams
Just Grandma and Me - Mercer Mayer
Love You Forever - Robert Munsch
Mama, Do You Love Me? - Barbara Joose
Multicultural
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin - Cheryl Hudson
Hats, Hats, Hats - Ann Morris
Knots on a Counting Rope - Bill Martin
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - John Steptoe
Two Eyes, A Nose And A Mouth - Roberta Intrater
Nursery Rhymes
Babushka's Mother Goose - Patricia Polacco
Chinese Mother Goose - Robert Wyndham
Eensy, Weensy Spider - Mary Ann Hoberman
Spot Counts from 1-10 - Eric Hill
Rhyme
The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
Down By the Bay - Raffi
Each Peach, Pear, Plum - Allan Ahlberg
Eek! There's a Mouse in the House - Wong Herbert Ye
Over in the Meadow - John Langstaff
School
All Ready for School - Leone Adelson
My First Days of School - Jane Hamilton-Merritt
School Bus - Donald Crews
Timothy Goes to School - Rosemary Wells
Who's Going to Take Care of Me? - Michele Magorian
Science
A House for a Hermit Crab - Eric Carle
Weather Words - Gail Gibbons
Digging Up Dinosaurs - Aliki
Pumpkin, Pumpkin - Jeanne Titherington
How Is a Crayon Made? - Charles Oz
Over In The Meadow - John Langstaff
Explore New Frontier
Titles
Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom - Bill Martin
Cowboys - Glen Rounds
Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
Marsupial Sue - John Lithgow
The Story of Johnny Appleseed - Aliki
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Other popular Titles
-
Alphabet books
(any author)
-
Old Black Fly
(Aylesworth)
-
A, My Name is
Alice
(Bayer, J. &
Kellogg, S.)
-
Eating the
Alphabet
(any book by Ehlert)
-
26 Letters & 99
Cents
(any book by Hoban)
-
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
(any book by Seuss)
-
Sheep in a Jeep
(Shaw) (any book in Series)
-
Wheels on the Bus
(Ziefert)
-
Jesse Bear, What
Will You Wear?
(Carlstrom)
-
Brown Bear, Brown
Bear
What do you See? (any book by Martin)
-
Fat Cat
(Spirn)
-
Have You Seen My
Cat?
(any book by Carle)
-
Mary Wore Her Red
Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers
(Peek)
-
Old Hat, New Hat
(any book by Berenstein)
-
Who Took the
Farmer’s Hat?
(Nodset)
-
Hello Readers,
Level 1
-
Early Step into
Reading
-
1, 2, 3 to the Zoo
by Eric Carle
-
Clifford the Big
Red Dog
by Norman Bridwell
-
Five Little
Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
by Eileen Christelow
-
The Good Bad
Manners Book
by Babbette Cole
-
Goodnight Gorilla
by Peggy Rathman
-
Have You Seen My
Duckling?
by Nancy Tafuri
-
Shapes
by Jan Pienkowski
-
The Three Little
Pigs
by Paul Galdon
Core Knowledge Literature
Fairy Tales
Mother Goose Rhymes
Aesopp’s Fables
-
The Lion and the
Mouse
-
The Town Mouse and
the Country Mouse
Storybook Reading
-
How Turtle Flew
South for the Winter (or, Why Turtle Has a Cracked Shell)
(Native American:
Dakota Legend)
Websites of Interest
www.bookpals.net/storyline
www.starfall.com
www.gigglepoetry.com
www.funbrain.com
www.readingrockets.org
www.bookadventure.org
Local Resources
Palm Beach County Public Library
www.pbclibrary.org
City of West Palm Beach Library
www.wpbpl.com
(set up your reading log using the model below)
Reading Log
Student
Name_____________________________________
Title of
Book Author (optional)
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