Summer Reading Program
Phone: (703) 497-7619
The purpose of the Summer Reading Program is to encourage students to enjoy quality literature and to continue developing their independent reading skills. Student participation in the program is voluntary. Students who choose to participate in the program are required to complete a minimum number of readings over the summer. A parent or guardian statement that the student has completed all reading must accompany the documentation listed below for each grade level.
Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five
Students are required to read 5 books.
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Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Publication Date |
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Asche |
Mooncake |
Scholastic |
1998 |
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Carle |
The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
Philomel |
1969 |
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Carle |
Do You Want to Be My Friend |
Crowell |
1971 |
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Carle |
1,2,3, to the Zoo! |
Philomel |
1982 |
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Crews |
Truck |
Greenwillow |
1980 |
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Fleming |
In the Tall, Tall Grass |
Scholastic |
1991 |
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Hoban |
Count and See |
Macmillan |
1972 |
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Hoberman |
Miss Mary Mack |
Scholastic |
1998 |
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Joosse |
Mama Do You Love Me? |
Chronicle |
1991 |
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Lobel |
Whiskers and Rhymes |
Greenwillow |
1985 |
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MacDonalds |
Alphabatics |
Bradbury |
1986 |
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Piper |
The Little Engine That Could |
Platt & Munk |
1990 |
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Prelutsky |
Rhymes for the Very Young |
Knopf |
1986 |
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Tafuri |
Have You Seen My Duckling |
Greenwillow |
1984 |
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Wright |
The Mother Goose |
Checkerboard Press |
1991 |
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Walsh |
Mouse Paint |
Harcourt Brace |
1989 |
Note Keeping Strategies
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1 |
Talk to someone about the book |
Evaluation Strategies
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1 |
Orally identify three events that took place in each of the five stories. |
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Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Publication Date |
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WORDLESS BOOKS |
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DePaola, Tomie |
Pancakes for Breakfast |
Harcourt Brace |
1990 |
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Mayer, Mercer |
Frog Goes to Dinner |
Dial Books |
1992 |
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Tafuri, Nancy |
Jungle Walk |
Greenwillow |
1988 |
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Turkle, Brinton |
Deep in the |
E.P. Dutton |
1992 |
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BOOKS TO BE SHARED WITH YOUR CHILD: |
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Arnold, Tedd |
Fly Guy |
Scholastic |
2006 |
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Aylesworth, Jim |
Old Black Fly |
Henry Holt |
1998 |
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Bang, Molly |
Ten-Nine-Eight |
Mulberry Books |
1991 |
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Brett, Jean |
Goldilocks and the Three Bears |
Dodd Mead |
1992 |
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Calmenson, Stephanie |
It Begins with A |
Demco Media |
1994 |
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Charlip, Remy |
Hand Talk |
MacMillan |
1984 |
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Christelow, Eileen |
Five Little Monkeys Series |
Houghton Mifflin |
2006 |
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Crew, Donald |
Ten Black Dots |
Mulberry Books |
1995 |
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Daly, Nikki |
Jamela Series |
Niki Daly Books |
1999 |
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Fox, Mem |
Night Noises |
Harcourt Brace |
1989 |
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Fox, Mem |
Time for Bed |
Harcourt Brace |
1997 |
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Galdone, Paul |
The Three Little Kittens |
Houghton Mifflin |
1988 |
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Grimm Brothers |
Little Red Riding Hood |
Troll |
1989 |
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Grossman, Virginia |
Ten Little Rabbits |
Chronicle Books |
1995 |
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Jones, Carol |
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Houghton Mifflin |
1992 |
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McMillan, Bruce |
Mary Had a Little Lamb |
Scholastic |
1992 |
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McLeod |
Super Hero ABC |
HarperCollins |
2006 |
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Salley, Colleen |
Epossumondas Series |
Harcourt |
1997 |
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Taylor, Jane |
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star |
William Morrow |
1992 |
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Wadsworth, Olivia |
Over in the Meadow |
Scholastic |
1991 |
Note Keeping
Strategies
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1 |
Child will point to and say numbers and consonant letters and sounds as the books are read to them. |
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2 |
Parents will ask children to retell the story for wordless books. |
Evaluation Strategies
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1 |
During the first two weeks of First Grade, children will be individually evaluated for the following skills: recognition of capital and lowercase letters, sounds for beginning consonants, and recognition of numbers 1 to 10. |
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Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Publication Date |
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Aliki |
Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians |
Harper Trophy |
1986 |
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Brown, Marc |
Arthur Meets the President |
Little Brown |
1996 |
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Cummings, Pat |
Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! |
Demco Media |
1994 |
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Galdone, Paul |
The Monkey and the Crocodile |
Houghton Mifflin |
1987 |
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Gibbons, Gail |
Dinosaurs |
Listening Library |
1989 |
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Giff, Patricia |
Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat |
Viking Press |
1990 |
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Giganti, Paul |
Each |
Greenwillow |
1992 |
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Guest, Eileen |
Iris and Walter Series |
Harcourt Brace |
2000 |
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Hoff, Syd |
Mrs. Brice's Mice |
Harpercrest |
1988 |
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Hurwitz, Johnanna |
New Shoes for Sylvia |
Young Morrow Jr. |
1993 |
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Hutchins, Pat |
The Doorbell Rang |
Greenwillow |
1986 |
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Johnson, Angela |
When I am Old with You |
Orchard Books |
1993 |
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Kellogg, Steven |
Johnny Appleseed |
William Morrow |
1988 |
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Lavies, Bianca |
Tree Trunk Traffic |
Puffin Books |
1993 |
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Lobel, Arnold |
Frog and Toad Together |
Harpercrest |
1987 |
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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick |
George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist |
Enslow Publishing |
1991 |
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McMillan, Bruce |
Eating Fractions |
Scholastic |
1991 |
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Osborne, Mary Pope |
Magic Treehouse Series |
Scholastic |
1992 |
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Parker, John |
I Love Spiders |
Scholastic |
1989 |
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Ryland, Cynthia |
Henry and Mudge Series |
Simon & Schuster |
2007 |
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Shaw, Charles G. |
It Looked like Spilt Milk |
Harpercollins |
1993 |
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Stevens, Janet |
Tops and Bottoms |
Harcourt Brace |
1995 |
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Thomas, Shelley Moore |
Cowgirl Kate and |
Harcourt Children's Books |
2005 |
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Williams, Linda |
The Little Old Lady who was Not Afraid of Anything |
Harper Trophy |
1988 |
Evaluation Strategies
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1 |
Summer Quest Record |
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2 |
Names of 5 books read from second grade list. |
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Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Publication Date |
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Adler, David A. |
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Viking/Penguin/Putnam |
2002 |
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Cameron, Ann |
Julian Series |
Random House |
1988 |
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Conford, Ellen |
Jenny Archer Series |
Springboard Book |
1989 |
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Dadey, Debbie |
Adventures of the |
Scholastic |
2002 |
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DiCamillo, Kate |
Mercy Watson Series |
Candlewick Press |
2005 |
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Kline, Suzy |
Horrible Harry Series |
Viking |
1989 |
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Osborne, Mary Pope |
Magic Tree House Series |
Random House |
2001 |
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Junie B. Jones Series |
Random House |
1993 |
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Peterson, J. & Roberta C. Clark |
The Littles Series |
Scholastic |
1967 |
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Roy, Ron |
A to Z Mysteries Series |
Random House |
2000 |
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Rylant, Cynthia |
Henry and Mudge Series |
Alladin |
2005 |
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Rylant, Cynthia |
Mr. Putter and Tabby Series |
Harcourt Brace |
1994 |
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Sciezka, Jon |
Time Warp Trio Series |
Viking |
1998 |
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Sharmat, Marjorie |
Nate the Great Series |
Young Yearling |
1977 |
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Warner, Gertrude |
The Boxcar Children Series |
Albert Whitman |
1989 |
Evaluation Strategies
|
1 |
Summer Quest Record. |
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2 |
Names of 5 books read from third grade list. |
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Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Publication Date |
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Birdsall, Jeanne |
The Penderwicks |
Random House |
2008 |
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Bunting, Eve |
How Many Days to |
Demco Media |
1990 |
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Christopher, Matt |
Sports Fiction Series |
Little Brown |
1990 |
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Cohlene, Terri |
Little Firefly |
Troll |
1991 |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul |
Bud not Buddy |
Delacourte Press |
1999 |
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Dragonwagon,Crescent |
Home Place |
Atheneum |
1990 |
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Durant, Penny Raife |
Exploring the World of Plants |
Franklin Watts |
1995 |
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Eribach, Arlene |
Hurricanes |
Children's Press |
1993 |
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Goble, Paul |
Her Seven Brothers |
Simon & Schuster |
1988 |
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Grahame, Kenneth |
The Wind in the Willows |
Derrydale |
1996 |
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Henry, Marguerite |
Black Gold |
Aladdin |
1992 |
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Jackson, Ellen |
Cinder Edna |
Lothrup Lee Shepard |
1994 |
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Kent, Zachary |
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry |
Children's Press |
1992 |
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Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
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Yearling Books |
1992 |
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Prelutsky, Jack |
Something Big Has Been Here |
William Morrow |
1990 |
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Reiser, Howard |
Ken Griffey Jr.:The Kid |
Children's Press |
1994 |
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Simon, Seymour |
Wolves |
Harpercollins |
1993 |
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Sis, Peter |
Follow the Dream |
Dragonfly |
1996 |
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Spinelli, Eileen |
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch |
Simon & Schuster |
1992 |
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Wiles, Deborah |
Each Little Bird that Sings |
Harcourt |
2006 |
Note
Keeping Strategies
|
1 |
Decorate and completethe book report form enclosed in the report card, and return the first day of school. This paper quilt piece will form a class quilt display in the hall. |
Evaluation Strategies
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1 |
Taking an Accelerated Reading test |
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2 |
Participating in a book chat about a book |
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3 |
Writing about the book in a reading response or book log |
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4 |
Drawing a picture about a favorite character or event in the book |
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Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Publication Date |
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Avi |
The Fighting Ground |
Lippincott |
1984 |
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Bank, Lynn Reid |
The Indian in the Cupboard |
|
1995 |
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Blume, Judy |
Fudge-a-Mania |
E.P. Dutton |
1990 |
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Bunting, Eve |
Nasty, Stinky Sneakers |
Harper Trophy |
1994 |
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Cleary, |
The Mouse and the Motorcycle |
Morrow |
1965 |
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Coville, Bruce |
Series of Ghost stories |
Bantam |
1991 |
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Howe, James |
Howliday Inn |
MacMillan |
1996 |
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Howe, James |
The Celery Stalks at |
MacMillan |
1989 |
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Lawlor, Laurie |
Addie Across the Prarie |
Whitman |
1986 |
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Levine, Gail Carson |
The Fairy’s Return |
Harper Collins |
2002 |
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Lowry, Lois |
Number the Stars |
Mifflin |
1989 |
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Lord, Bette Bao |
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
Harper and Row |
1984 |
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Naylor,Phyllis Reynolds |
Beetles, Lightly Toasted |
Athenum |
1987 |
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Paulsen, Gary |
Hatchet |
Bradbury Press |
1967 |
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Polacco, Patricia |
Pink and Say |
Philomel Books |
1994 |
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Silverstein, Shel |
A Light in the Attic |
Harper and Row |
1981 |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
Little House in the Big Woods |
Harper |
1953 |
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
The Long Winter |
Harper |
1953 |
Note Keeping Strategies
|
1 |
Fill out book response form that you will be given with the report card in June |
Evaluation Strategies
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1 |
Evaluation of the book response form |
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2 |
Taking Accelerated reading tests on their chosen books |
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