Scholastic
Scholastic: Summer Reading
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Article on Encouraging Summer Reading
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teachers: Bridging the Summer Reading Gap
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.
Other
Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists
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...
Other
Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading
A good lesson plan, to be used during the last month of the school year, for motivating students to remain faithful to reading over the summer. Uses strategies such as student-chosen books and persuasive writing techniques.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Summer Reading
Here are some great ideas for summer learning and reading.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sharing Summer Reading Through Literature Circles
This instructional activity allows students 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...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: Episode 11: Summer Learning
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...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Reading List for With Kids Who Love or Dislike Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a reading list with motivational books. Newbery Award winners and Caldecott Award winners make up the majority of the list.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer of Reading Collection
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.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: This Reading List Kids Who Love Reading and Don't
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides lists of the popular books for young readers along with a brief summary of each.
Family Education
Family Education: Book Lists
Family Education publishes age-appropriate lists of books, with brief plot summaries, on themes of interest to children and teens.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Novels for Growing Readers
Come and check out this informative resource featuring novels for growing readers. This site lists several appropriate books for students ranging from grades three through six.
American Library Association
Outstanding Books for College Bound & Lifelong Learners
The American Library Association offers these suggestions for reading in history, humanities, literature, science, and social studies. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity
Scholastic
Scholastic: Books to Engage Boys
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer of Possibilities: Friends & Neighbors Packet: Grades 1 and 2
Use these friends & neighbors-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Coming of Age Novels
Come and check out this site featuring a list of appropriate young adult novels. This list includes the title of each book and a brief description.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Timeless Picture Books
Can you motivate your young students to read more? Scholastic.com offers a list of timeless picture books to help you accomplish your goal. Along with the title there is a brief description of each book.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Police
Chronicles the career and provides biographical details on superstar group, The Police, 2003 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events, recommended reading list, and essential songs.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Top 10 Graphic Novels for 2016
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides A list of the Top 10 Graphic Novels from 2016 along with a brief summary of each.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: My Kids’ Favorite Books
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides lists of the popular books for young readers.
Other
Presenting Sid Fleischman
This is children author Sid Fleischman's personal website, which offers a fascinating look into his life and work.
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: 7 Books That Inspired Documentaries
Find brief descriptions of seven books that either inspired documentaries or were written as a result of documentaries.