The summer reading tips below come from the nonprofit organization, Partnership for Learning.
10 tips for summer reading fun
Tip 1: Be a reading role model.
Don't just tell your child to read - let him see you reading! This will encourage him to read for himself or have you read to him.
Tip 2: Get your child a magazine subscription to a hobby that she loves (even comic books).
When a child receives a magazine in the mail with her name on the address label, this turns an ordinary magazine into something special. If the magazine is about something your child loves (soccer, baseball, sports, Superman, Pokemon, etc.) she is excited about reading it and usually can't wait.
Tip 3: If your child sees a movie that he really likes, go to the bookstore and find a book about it.
Every bookstore carries movie tie-ins. These are books that are written based on a children's movie. Usually the movie is just released or an old favorite. Every Disney movie has book tie-ins. There are also Scooby-Doo books, Star Wars (old and new), Rugrats, and many other movie books.
Tip 4: Entice your child with a riddle or joke book.
Some children will adamantly refuse to show any interest in books regardless of what the book is about. Find a joke or riddle book and have it handy in the car. When driving to errands, pull the book out and ask your child to ask you some riddles or tell you some jokes. This will get him going.
Tip 5: Read recipes or directions on a project.
Pull out some cookbooks or go to the craft store and buy a project to build together. Have your child read the recipe to bake the food or read the directions to build the project. If she can't read the recipe or directions (or won't read them in some cases), then the food or project doesn't get completed.
Tip 6: Household reading
Have everyone in the house read or look at a book or magazine for a short period of time at least once a day. If schedules don't permit this, try to make this a regular practice at least four times a week.
Tip 7: Don't use reading as a punishment.
Whatever you do as a parent, don't use reading as a punishment. Make sure that reading is considered a pleasure. Reading is FUN. Don't say, "Go to your room and read! No more TV!"
Tip 8: Ask your child to help you find out about something you need to know, like a vacation site or consumer information.
If a child has a vital interest in finding out where he's going for vacation (and what there is to do there), he will become private investigators in finding information. Find something that you're going to buy, go visit, thinking of doing this summer and have your child find information about it.
Tip 9: Write a book together.
During the summer, write a book together with your child. Have your child write a sentence or two at the end of each day. By the end of the summer, the book will be finished. Use a spiral bound notebook, or separate pages to put together when the book is finished. At the end of the summer, present the book to the whole family and read it together.
Tip 10: Read everywhere
Everywhere you go, read aloud with your child. In the grocery store, read signs. Traveling on long trips or short ones, read road signs, magazines, newspaper stories - all sorts of things.
First Grade
Summer 2009
Books to Read Aloud to Your Child
Please read at least six.
This list may be used as a guide in selecting reading material. You may choose other books not on this list that you feel would be appropriate for your child.
Author
Title
Ada, Alma Flor
Dear Peter Rabbit
Agee, Jon
Milo's Hat Trick
Terrific
Arnold, Ted Hi Fly Guy!
Bishop, Claire Huchet
The Five Chinese Brothers
Bishop, Nic Spiders
Byars, Betsy
Ant Plays Bear
My Brother, Ant
Cooney, Barbara
Miss Rumphius
Dahl, Roald
The Enormous Crocodile
Deedy, Carmen Agra Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: a Cuban Folktale
DePaola, Tomie
Tom
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
Mary; the Mother of Jesus
Falconer, Ian
Olivia
Olivia Saves The Circus
Feiffer, Jules
I Lost My Bear
Florian, Douglas Comets, Stars, the Moon,and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings
Flournoy, Valerie
The Patchwork Quilt
Henkes, Kevin
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Chrysanthemum
Wemberly Worried
Kitten's First Full Moon
Johnson, Crockett
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Keats, Ezra Jack
Whistle for Willie or any other
Kvasnosky, Laura McGee Zelda and Ivy, The Runaways
Long, Melinda
How I Became a Pirate
Look, Lenore
Henry's First - Moon Birthday
Madison, Alan Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
Martin, Bill
Barn Dance
McClintock, Barbara Adele and Simon
McKissack, Patricia
Flossie and the Fox
McLimans, David Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet
Mortenson, Greg Listen to the Wind: the Story of Dr. Greg and the Three Cups of Tea
Mosel, Arlene
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Palatini, Margie
The Cheese
Perkins, Lynne Rae Pictured from our Vacation
Polacco, Patricia
Chicken Sunday
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
Prelutsky, Jack
Something Big Has Been Here
Rathmann, Peggy
10 Minutes till Bedtime
Rey, H. A.
Curious George or any in series
Ryland, Cynthia Mr. Putter & Tabby See the Stars or any in series
Schwartz, David
How Much Is a Million?
If You Made a Million
Scieszka, Jon
The Frog Prince, Continued
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Shannon, David
No David!
David Goes To School
David on a Bike
Shulevitz, Uri How I learned Geography
Slobodkina, Esphyr
Caps for Sale
Stevens, Janet
Tops and Bottoms
And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
Swaim, Jessica The Hound from the Pound
Taback, Simms
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Joseph had a Little Overcoat
Teague, Mark
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters From Obedience School
Trivizas, Eugene
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Ward, Lynd
The Biggest Bear
Wells, Rosemary
McDuff Goes to School
Yoko
Yoko's Paper Cranes
Wiesner, David Flotsam
Williams, Vera B.
A Chair for My Mother
Willems, Mo
Knuffle Bunny
Knuffle Bunny too
Leonardo the Terrible Monster
Wood, Audrey
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub
The Napping House
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