K3 to 2nd Summer Reading
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Grace Brethren Christian School feels very strongly about students reading on a consistent basis. The only way reading skills improve is by doing a lot of reading. Parents can model the importance of reading by reading to their children. During the summer, please read the books listed below to your child. They may be checked out from the public library. For K3, K4 and K5, reading of particular titles is not mandatory. Consistent reading is what is important.
If your child is entering K3, books parents may read with their child:
Clap Your Hands by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
We’re Going On a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Books about opposites, rhyming books, alphabet/letter Recognition books.
If your child is entering K4, books parents may read with their child:
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Books about opposites, rhyming books, alphabet/letter Recognition books.
If your child is entering K5, books parents may read with their child:
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The M and M's Brand Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
It's The Bear ! by Jez Alborough or any Berenstain Bear book
Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood
Chicka-Chicka Boom-Boom by Bill Wood
Books about opposites, rhyming books, alphabet/letter recognition books.
If your child is entering 1st Grade, books parents may read with their child:
First Grade, Here I Come by Nancy Carlson
Chester the Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully by Audrey Penn
A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
The Bear’s Vacation by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Curious George by H.A. Rey
If your child is entering 2nd Grade, books parents may read with their child:
Arthur Chapter Book (several titles) by Mark Brown
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Henry and Mudge Series by Cynthia Rylant
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish
To encourage students to read and prepare them for the start of next year, we are requiring that every student, entering grades third through twelfth, read a required novel by the start of school in August. The classroom or English teachers have chosen the novel to be read for each grade level.