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Scholastic

Scholastic: Summer Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about the importance of summer reading through this informative resource. Scholastic.com provides teachers with links to summer booklists, articles on summer reading and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Article on Encouraging Summer Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic.com provides teachers with this practical article to help encourage summer reading. The research presented within this article will enable teachers to create readers.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teachers: Bridging the Summer Reading Gap

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides an article that discusses the importance of summer reading for students. Find out what schools can do to help improve student's participation in summer reading.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A good lesson, to be used during the last month of the school year, for motivating young scholars to remain faithful to reading over the summer. Uses strategies such as student-chosen books and persuasive writing techniques.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Summer Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here are some great ideas for summer learning and reading.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sharing Summer Reading Through Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity allows young scholars to discuss the assigned summer reading in literature circles with respect to plot, character, and theme. Students work in groups of three to four to produce a slideshow presentation of one of the...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 11: Summer Learning

For Teachers K - 1st
Adventures in Summer Learning offers practical suggestions for parents about how to create a literacy-rich summer, as well as profiles of effective formal programs for at-risk youth and children with learning disabilities. Video excerpts...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Summer of Reading Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Get summer started on the right page with PBS LearningMedia's Summer of Reading collection! These videos, activities, and interactive games help to build vocabulary and reading comprehension while bringing storybook characters to life.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teaching Reading: Expert Interviews

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn from nationally known researchers and experts in literacy and early education. Topics include phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, writing, summer learning, early childhood education, dyslexia, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Play Your Way! Calendar

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The summer is full of possibilities and so is your child. Use this calendar to choose activities, games, and videos to enjoy.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Sudden Slice of Summer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece shares the story of a little girl and her dream of summer coming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Summer at the Polka Dot Cafe

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Alice who finds help in dealing with her parent's divorce. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that gives some pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Summer Vacation

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Jose who learned the importance of a weather forecast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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American Library Association

Outstanding Books for College Bound & Lifelong Learners

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The American Library Association offers these suggestions for reading in history, humanities, literature, science, and social studies. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Books to Engage Boys

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore this exciting list of books that will engage boys of all ages to read. This site gives the title and a brief description for each book.
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Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My Summer [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th
"My Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child who visited his grandmother in Phoenix for the summer. He was surprised at how hot it was there. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Summer [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a mother and her two children traveling from the city to the country to visit her parents for the summer. They discuss the modern conveniences they have now like cell phones and...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My Summer [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"My Summer" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child who visited his grandmother in Phoenix for the summer. He was surprised at how hot it was there. It is followed by open-ended questions which require students to provide...
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English for Everyone

Reading Comprehension Assessment: "Summer Rain" [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Read Theory provides a free reading comprehension assessment that is designed for students in the high school grades. Five multiple choice questions and three extended response questions are included on thia nonfiction reading assessment.
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New York Times

New York Times: 10 Ways to Celebrate Summer

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you like to do in summer? Do you need some new ideas? Check this out! There are ideas for travel, reading, learning new things, celebrating, learning new songs, watching or playing sports, movies, fashion, food, and more.

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