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May, 2006

Dear Parents:

Enclosed you will find a list of recommended reading for the summer months. Please use the Reading Journal pages to keep track of the books that you have read.

We hope that your child can read at least 20 books during the summer vacation. You and your child are asked to choose fifteen books from the enclosed list and five books of their own choice. Encourage your child to read on his/her own, but it's OK to help them out by reading to them as well!!

Children of all ages enjoy being read to and reading to children at an early age encourages them to want to read on their own

In addition to keeping the Reading Journal, students will do projects such as Fan-Fold Display, My Book Box, Story Ball, and Story Map, on at least three of the books which they have read from the Second Grade Summer Reading List. They will bring their summer reading journals and projects to Second Grade when they return to school in the fall. Children will also asked to share their summer reading with their classmates.

Working together we can help each one of our children become good readers!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Sutton
First Grade Teacher

Second Grade Summer Reading List
	*Children's Bible*
Christine Anello	*The Farmyard Cat*
Ted Arnold	*No Jumping on the Bed*
Marcia Brown	*Stone Soup*
Tommie De Paola	*Strega Nona*
Don Freeman	*The Corduroy series*
Marjorie Flack	*Story about Ping*
Paul Galdone	*The Little Red Hen*
	*The Teeny Tiny Woman*
Father Gander	*Nursery Rhymes*
Paul Giganti, Jr.	*How Many Snails?*
Robert Krause	*Leo the Late Bloomer*
Theo Lesey	*Ten Apples on Top*
A. Lobel	*Frog and Toad series*
Jonathan London	*Froggy series*
Patty Lovell	*Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon*
Gerald McDermott	*Arrow to the Sun*
Mercer Meyer	*There's a Nightmare in My Closet*
Elsie Minarik	*Little Bear*
Numeroff	*If You Give A _______ A __________*
Peggy Parish	*Amelia Bedelia*
Barbara Park	*Junie B.Series*
Rodney Peppe	*The House that Jack Built*
Raffi	*Shake my Sillies Out ( or other Raffi Songs to Read)*
H. A. Rey	*Curious George series*
Cynthia Rylant	*Dinosaur Stomp*
	*Henry and Mudge series*
	*The Clifford series*
Maurice Sendak	*In the Night Kitchen*
	*Where the Wild Things Are*
Dr. Seuss	*Dr. Seuss Series*
Charles G. Shaw	*It Looked Like Spilt Milk*
Shel Silverstein	*Where the Sidewalk Ends*
William Steig	*Amos and Boris*
Mark Teague	*Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp*
Judith Viorst	*Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good , Very Bad Day*
Paul Vischer	*Pa Grape's Shapes*
Gene Zion	*Harry the Dirty Dog*
Charlotte Zolotow	*I Know an Old Lady*

Reading Journal

Date:______________
Title of Book:_______________________	Author:_____________________
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Reading Journal

Date:______________
Title of Book:_______________________	Author:_____________________
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