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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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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...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasive Writing for Summer Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sharing Summer Reading Through Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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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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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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Scholastic

Scholastic: Timeless Picture Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Other

Presenting Sid Fleischman

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is children author Sid Fleischman's personal website, which offers a fascinating look into his life and work.