6th Grade
West Bloomfield School District
Educating Students to be their
Best IN and FOR the World!
Amy Hughes, Principal Abbott Middle School and Morrison Borders, Principal Orchard Lake Middle School
Middle School Summer Reading Assignment
Dear Parents and Guardians of Future West Bloomfield Middle School Students:
As a student in the West Bloomfield School District, your child is expected to participate in the West Bloomfield Middle School
Summer Reading Assignment. Research shows that continual reading is a predictor of future academic success.
Below is a list of required books along with their Lexile ratings. Students are encouraged to choose books that are within their
Lexile range; however, a Lexile score is not the only indicator when choosing a book. Lexiie levels are merely a suggestion of
the level of vocabulary and difficulty of the text. Interest in the novel topic can play a significant part in a student's success with
a book. Also, if you are willing to read the text with your student or listen to an audio version of the book, the Lexile level may
not be an issue. Below the book list is a chart that indicates Lexile ranges and approximate grade equivalents.
Incoming 6th graders are expected to read two books:
• Required Book: Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements: 690L
and one book from the following list:
Choice Books:
o Letters from Rifl{a by Karen Hesse: 690L
• Heat by Mike Lupica: 940L
o Hany Potterand the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling: 880L
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls: 700L
® Are you there God, It's me Margaret by Judy Blume: 590L
• Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster: 1800L
• Eight Keys by Suzanne La Fleur: 590L
o Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank: 1080L
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio: 790L
• How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephardt: 660L
Grade equivalents for Lexile Scores:
2nd-3rd grade: 420-820L
4th-5th grade: 740-1010L
6th-8th grade: 925-1185 L
In addition, students must:
• Complete a Reading Notes Form for each book they read (see attached)
• Bring completed Reading Notes Forms with a minimum of 15 notes to school on the first day for each book
• Take a quiz on each book read (see Quiz Direction sheet)
• Participate and collaborate in a discussion about each book read
These books are available in local bookstores, libraries and online. If you need assistance obtaining copies of the selected
texts, please contact either the Abbott Middle School office at (248)865-3670 or Orchard Lake Middle School office at (248)
865-4480. Additionally, you may email Kathleen BertoFini at [email protected] at Abbott or Joanne Friday at
[email protected] at Orchard Lake.
West Bloomfield School District
5810 Commerce Road
West Bloomfield, M148324
6 Grade
West Bloomfield School Disn-lct
Educating Students to be their
Best IN and FOR the World!
Amy Hughes, Principal Abbott Middle School
Morrison Borders, Principal Orchard Lake Middle School
Middle School Summer Reading Assignment
Book Quiz Directions
After reading each of your books, you will need to take a 20 question multiple choice
book quiz. These quizzes can be taken online from any computer with internet access.
You will only be able to log in once and take this quiz. Please be sure you are prepared
since you will not be able to retake the quiz.
To access the Summer Reading Assignment Book Quizzes:
1. Go to: www.examloqin.com
2. Type in the Access Code for the quiz you wish to take. See the list below of titles
and codes. Click "Find"
3. Type in your student ID number* - this is a nine digit number. Click "Start"
Title
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Access Code
25HG
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Are You There God, It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Heat by Mike Lupica
25H4
25C7
258K
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
2587
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
25HF
Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
258L
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
2588
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephardt
Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur
2584
25HP
258P
Wour student ID number can be found on the label attached to the front of this sheet.
West Bloomfield School District
5810 Commerce Road
West Bloomfield, HI 48324
Sixth Grade Reading Notes Directions
For each book you read this summer, you are required to take reading notes. Taking reading
notes allows you to record your thoughts as you read. Using the 3-column notes chart
attached, take 15 notes on the books you read. You might think of this as 5 notes from the
beginning of the book, 5 from the middle, and 5 from the end.
To record your thoughts, you might:
o Make connections
o Text-to-self
Q Text-to-text
o Text-to-world
• Make inferences and predictions
e Note descriptive text that creates a picture in your mind and helps to bring the story alive
• Ask questions
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6th Grade Literary Concepts
Use the following list as a reference to guide you while you read your novels. This list is merely to help
students better complete these assignments. Think of this as a glossary of terms.
1. antagonist:
a character or force working against the protagonist/main character
2. characterization:
consists of all the techniques writers use to create and develop characters
3. climax:
the highest point of action or suspense in a story's main conflict
4. conflict:
a struggle between opposing forces
• external conflict: when a character smaggles against another person or
some other outside force
• internal conflict: a struggle within a character
5. dialogue:
a conversation between two or more characters
6. falling action:
comes after the climax (most exciting part or turning point of the story);
it's the opposite of the rising action which leads to the climax; the falling
action usually leads to the resolution
7. figurative language: descriptive language in which one thing is compared to another,
through the use of simile, metaphor, or personification etc.
8. foreshadowing:
occurs when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story
(you often don't know it's foreshadowing until later in the story)
9. genre:
a type/category of literature ex. poetry, nonfiction, fiction, biography,
science fiction, fantasy, narrative
10. imagery:
consists of words and phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses
11. metaphor:
a comparison of two things that have something in common;
unlike a simile, it does not use like or as
12. mood:
a feeling that a literary work conveys to the reader
13. personification:
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
14. plot development:
sequence of events in a story from beginning, middle to end
15. point of view:
the perspective from which a story is told
• first-person:
the narrator in the story 1s a character in the story
third-person: the narrator is not a character in the story
16. protagonist:
a main character who is involved in the story's conflict, usually the hero;
a story may have more than one
17. resolution:
the part of the story/plot where loose ends are tied up and the story is
brought to a close
18. rising action:
the series of events in the plot of a story that occur which axe building up
tension; leads to the climax of the story
19. setting
the setting of a story, poem, or play is the time and place of action
20. simile:
a comparison of two things that have something in common that must
use like or as
21. textual evidence:
using exact words directly from the text to prove/support your point
22. theme:
a message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary
work
23. tone:
expresses the writer's attitude toward his/her subject
24. voice:
author's voice is his/her distinct style or manner of expression