In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:6 KJV 2014 Summer Reading Program June 1 -­‐ July 31 • Birth-­‐ 18 years Increase Vocabulary Develop Comprehension Skills Improve Fluency 1. Read three or more “Age Level” books by the due dates below. (Parents may read to non-­‐
readers). 2. Receive a ticket for each book and qualify for the Super Reader Prize. 3. Turn in ONE “Grade Appropriate” and “Well-­‐Written”) activity on each due date. Number of Books to Read th
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July 27 3 books Middle School High School Prizes 2 books 1 book Read 2 books 1 book Dream 2 books 1 book And 2 books 1 book Explore Additional prizes will be given away at the “Back to School Bash” for the Most Books Read, Most Creative Activity, and Super Readers st
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Reading Activities
Read A Book!!
Complete a fun, well-created activity as it relates to your book.
Include ~Title of Book, Author’s Name, Your Name, and Date.
1. Create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting 2 book characters, 2 book settings, you
and a book character, a book character with a biblical character, or a book setting with your
local setting.
2. Create a Concentration game. Choose 10 or more interesting words from your book. Write a
word on each index card. Then write the definitions on 10 different cards. Give game to a
friend.
3. Make a T-chart. On the left side of your chart, list five or more facts from your story. On the
right side of the chart, list 5 or more opinions.
4. Write a letter to the author or a friend explaining why you liked your book. Be sure to
include all of the parts of a letter.
5. Make a book report sandwich. Draw, color, and cut out a brown bun (title of book, author’s
name, and your name); green lettuce ( picture of favorite scene); red tomato (description of
character); yellow cheese (description of setting); and brown burger summary).
6. Pretend to be a publicist for the book. Write and persuade other children to read the story.
7. Pretend to be the author. Write three paragraphs explaining why you wrote the story.
8. Compose 8 or more questions to ask the main character. Write the character’s response to
each question. The questions and answers should reflect that you have read the story.
9. Create a “Ten Facts About _____”(title of book). List the facts you learned from reading the
book. Facts must be in complete sentences and include details you didn’t know before
reading the book.
10. Write a poem/poems about the book you read---haiku, ballad, limerick, couplet, etc.
11. Write a summary of the beginning and middle parts of the story. Make up a new and exciting
ending.
12. Create an ABC book. Draw a picture beginning with a word or detail from your story. Write
a letter for each picture. This can be from many books.
13. Draw your hand. Write an important statement on each finger.
14. Make a bookmark. Illustrate a character or setting.
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor 15. Prepare a paper scroll using information and scenes from the story.
16. Make a time line of events in the life of the main character.
17. Describe an experience that you have had that was like the experience of a character.
18. Divide your paper into sections. Write a vowel in each section. List words with long and/or
short AEIOU sounds.
19. Read a Fairy Tale. Illustrate and explain each element: MAGIC, THINGS HAPPENING IN
3’s, GOOD AND BAD CHARACTERS, AND HAPPY ENDING.
20. Divide paper into sections. Find words for each: 4 or 5 syllable words, contractions,
compound words, prefixes, suffixes and plurals. Write a summary using some of these words.
21. Design a Thumb character. Color thumb with a colorful marker, press thumb on white paper.
Draw body parts of the main character. Cut out clothes, shoes, hair, etc. Write a paragraph
describing the main character.
22. Before reading the story, write a paragraph telling what you think the story is about and why.
Read the story. Now write what actually happened in the story-beginning, middle, and end.
23. Write the recipe given: ½ cup title (original and made up title), 2 cups plot (what happened in
the story), 1 teaspoon character (characteristics of character), 2 tablespoons of excitement
(what was exciting), and ½ cup opinion (how do you feel about the story). Under each
heading, write information gathered from your book.
24. Create a map of the setting. Include a map key, compass, streets, buildings, etc. Explain why
you included the various symbols on your map. If desired, write questions for someone to
answer. Example-which street runs north and south? What is south of the main character’s
house?
25. Summarize and change the story using YOU as the main character.
26. Write and ACROSTIC poem demonstrating your understanding of the sequence of events in
the story.
27. Draw a circle on paper. Draw lines extending from the circle. Inside the circle, explain the
main idea. On the lines, write supporting details.
28. Draw a flow map. Arrange the story in sequential order.
29. Make a T-chart. On the left side, list the Causes. On the right side, list the Effects.
30. Create a Find a Word of the story. Write a paragraph explaining why these words were
chosen.
31. Create a crossword puzzle.
32. Find and write similes and metaphors.
33. Write a movie script of your story. Include real life movie stars.
34. Write for the Commercial Appeal and include information based on your book.
35. Turn your book into a comic book for a younger child with illustrations and bubbles.
36. Write a TV Commercial advertising favorite parts of the book. Use celebrities of locals or
both.
37. Create a picture book for younger children. Draw colorful pictures and use age appropriate
vocabulary.
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor American Library Association
0-6 months
All Fall Down. Oxenbury, Helen
Animal Crackes: Bedtime. Dyer, Jane
Baby Animals: Black and White. Tildes, Phyllis L.
Baby Rock, Baby Rock. Blackstone, Stella
Big Fat Hen. Baker, Keith
Black on White. Hoban, Tana
Blue Hat, Green Hat. Boynton, Sandra
I Love Colors. Miller, Margaret
Max. Wilson-Max, Ken
My First Baby Games. Manning, Jane
My Very First Mother Goose. Opie, Iona
Peek-A-Boo! Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg
6-12 months
Animal Kisses. Saltzberg, Barney
Baby’s Lap Book. Chorao, Kay
Brown Sugar Babies. Smith, Charles
Goodnight Moon. Brown, Margaret
I Can. Oxenbury, Helen
I Small Honey. Pickney, Andrea
Maybe, My Baby. O’Book, Irene
My Colors (Mis Colores). Emberly, Rebecca
Time For Bed. Fox, Mem
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Winter, Jeanette
Welcome, Baby! Baby Rhymes for Baby Times. Calmenson, Stephanie
Where’s the Baby? Paxton, Tom
12-18 months
The Bear Who Went Over the Mountain. Wells, Rosemary
Big Dog, Little Dog. Pilkey, Dav
Count With Maisy. Cousins, Lucy
Eating The Alphabet: Fruits and Vegitables from A to Z. Ehlert, Lois
The Everything Book. Fleming, Denise
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. Chistelow, Eileen
Freight Train. Crews, Donald
Itsy Bitsy Spider. Wells, Rosemary
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor Jamberry. Degen, Bruce
My First Action Rhymes. Cravath, Lynne
Pat the Bunny. Kunhardt, Dorothy
Rabbit’s Bedtime. Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth
Read To Your Bunny. Wells, Rosemary
Sheep in a Jeep. Shaw, Nancy
Ten, Nine, Eight, Bang. Molly Garrett
Tom and Pippo Read a Story. Oxenbury, Helen
Where Is My Baby? Ziefert, Harriet and Simms Taback
Where’s Spot? Hill, Eric
You Are My Perfect Baby. Thomas, Joyce
Zoom City. Hurd, Thatcher
18 months-3 years
Be Gentle! Miller, Virginia
Book! George, Kristine
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Martin, Bill
Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom. Martin, Bill
Color Zoo. Ehlert, Lois
Come Along, Daisy! Simmons, Jane
Construction Zone. Hoban, Tana
Dinosaur Roar! Stickland, Paul
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs. Barton, Byron
Hello, Lulu. Uff, Caroline
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? Yolen, Jane
In the Tall, Tall Grass. Flemming, Denise
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? Carlstrom, Nancy White
Little White Duck. Zaritsky, Bernard
Maisy’s ABC. Cousins, Lucy
Max’s First Word. Wells, Rosemary
More More More, Said the Baby. Williams, Vera
Mouse Mess. Riley, Linnea A.
On Mother’s Lap. Scott, Ann Herbert
Silly Little Goose! Tafuri, Nancy
The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix
The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Carle, Eric
The Wheels on the Bus. Wickstrom, Sylvie
You’re Just What I Need. Krauss, Ruth
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor Memphis Public Library
Suggested List
Beginning Readers
The Crazy Quilt. Kristin Avery
Yoo Hoo Moon? Mary Blacksma
Ice-Cold Birthday What a Pest! Maryann Cocca-Leffle
Dog and Cat. Paul Fehlner
Who Says? Kristin Hall
Jacks and More Jacks. Babs Bell Hajudsiewicz
What Do You Do? Susanne Hardin
Double-Header. Gail Herman
Away Go the Boats, I Love You Dear Dragon, Up, Up, and Away. Margaret Hilbert
What A Mess! Gina Ingoglia
Who Is Coming? Pat McKissack
“Bob” books(many titles). Bobby Lynn Maslen
I love Cats. Catherine Matthis
Monsters. Dianne Namm
“Not Now!” Said the Cow. Joanne Oppenhein
Two Crows Counting. Doris Orgel
Eat Your Peas, Louise. Pegeen Snow
Things Bunny Sees. Cindy Szekeres
Jason’s Bus Ride, Nicky Upstairs and Down, Say Goodnight. Harriet Ziefert
I Love Saturdays. Alma Flor Ada
The Pot That Juan Built. Nancy Andrews-Goebel
Money Luna. Jorge Argueta
Dora’s Book of Words. Phoebe Beinstein
My Name is Celia. Monica Brown
Sparky’s Bark. Mimi Chapra
Little Mama Forgets. Robin Cruise
Quinto’s Neighborhood. Ina Cumpiano
From Here to There. Margeret Cuyler
Elena’s Serenade. Campbell Geeslin
Go! Go! Maria What It’s Like To Be. Robie H. Harris
Poems to Dream Together. Francisco Alarcon
Me in the Middle. Ana Maria Aamachado
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor Beginning Chapter Books
Onion Sundaes. David Adler
The Bunnysitter. Kate Banks
The Case of the Elevator Duck. Polly Berends
The Chalk Box Kid. Clyde Robert Bulla
The Chocolate Touch. Patrick Catling
Snakes Are Nothing to Sneeze At. Babrielle Charbonnet
The Hit-Away Kid. Matt Christopher
213 Valentines. Barbara Cohen
Aliens for Lunch. Johnathan Etra
The Mystery of Pony Hollow. Lynn Hall
Adventure of Ali Baba Bernstein. Johanna Hurwitz
Sarah, Plain and Tall. Patricia MacLachlan
The Fire Plug is First Base. P.J. Peterson
Fat Men From Space. Daniel Pinkwater
Just Plain Cat. Nancy Robinson
Dinosaurs are 568. Jwean Rogers
The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits. Elizabeth-Ann Sachs
The Mystery of the Hard Luck Rodeo. Susan Sanders
SERIES (books with the same characters)
Cam Jensen. David Adler
Julian. Ann Cameron
Jenny Archer. Ellen Conford
Amber Brown. Paula Danziger
Pee Wee Scouts. Judy Delton
Kids of the Polk Street School. Patricia Reilly Giff
Pinky and Rex. James Howe
Max Malone. Charlotte Herman
Herbie Jones. Susie Kline
Junie B. Jones. Barbara Park
Marvin Redpost. Lois Sachar
The Accelerated Reader List is available upon request. Contact the
Education Ministry or Sharone Powell@ 901-628-8259
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor American Library Association
Great Middle School Reads
Walking On Air. Easton, Kelly
Begging For Change. Flake, Sharon
The Wolves in the Wall. Gaiman, Neil
The Way a Door Closes. Smith, Hope Anita
No Laughter Hers. Williams-Garcia, Rita
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. Gantos, Jack
Saffy’s Angel. McKay, Hilary
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things. Naifeh, Ted
And Epic Ocean Operetta. Wheeler, Lisa
Some of the Kinder Planet. Wynne-Jones, Tim
Millicent Min: Girl Genius. Yee, Lisa
Crispin: The Crows of Lead. Avi
Stitches. Huser, Glen
Inkheart . Funke, Cornelia
Coralline. Gaiman, Neil
Pictures of Hollis Woods. Giff, Patricia Reilly
Cuba. Osa, Nancy
When My Name Was Keoko. Park, Linda Sue
Blue Jasmine. Sheth, Kashmira
Hush. Woodson, Jaqueline
The Heart of a Chief. Bruchac, Joseph
Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. Crowe, Chris
The City of Ember. Duprau, Jeanne
Worth the Risk. Erlbach, Arlene
The House of the Scorpion. Farmer, Nancy
The Chimpanzees I Love. Godall, Jane
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. Konigsburg, E.L.
Messenger. Lowery, Lois
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam. Myers, Walter Dean
Mortal Engines. Reeve, Phillip
Wolf on the Fold. Clark, Judith
Gregor the Overlander. Collins, Susanne
Mud City. Ellis, Deborah
Spirited Away. Mizayaki, Hayao
Esperanza Rising. Rynan, Pam Munoz
Ben Franklin’s Almanac. Flfeming, Candace
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor Good Gentleman’s Life.
Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois. Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan
The Other Side: Shorter Poems. Johnson, Angela
The Wright Sister: Katherine Write and Her Famous Brother. Maurier, Richard
Craver, a Life in Poems. Nelson, Marylin
This Land Was Made For You and Me: the Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie. Partridge,
Elizabeth
After the Last Dog Died: The True-Life, Hair Raising Adventure of Douglas Mawson and
His 1912 Antarctic Expodition. Bredeson, Carmen
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of
1793. Murphy, Jim
The Books of Magic. Gaimen, Neil
Fish. Matthews, L.S.
Run, Boy, Run. Orlev, Uri
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whale Ship Essex. Philbrick, Nathaniel
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut
Michael Collins. Schyffert, Bea Uusma
Blue Jasmine. Sheth, Kashmira
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor Suggested
Summer Reading
For
High School Students
Things Fall Apart. Achebe, Chinua
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou, Maya
The House on Mango Street. Cisneros, Sandra
Last of the Mohicans. Cooper, James Fenimore
The Chocolate War. Cormier, Robert
The Red Badge of Courage. Crane, Stephen
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston, Zora Neale
To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee, Harper
The Crucible. Miller, Arthur
Color of Water. McBride, James
Go Ask Alice. Sparks, Beatrice
Night. Wiesel, Elie
Warriors Don’t Cry. Beals, Melba Pattillo
The Count of Monte Carlo. Scheffer, Lou
The Raison in the Sun. Hansberry, Lorraine
The Long Run. Furey, Leo
Black Swan Green. Mitchell, David
Lost and Found. Parkhurst, Carolyn
Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor Brown Missionary Baptist Church • Summer Reading Program 2014 • Bartholomew Orr, Sr. Pastor