Miami Lakes K-8 Center

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Click on the link above for the 2010 Summer Reading List.

http://www.justreadfamilies.org/

http://www.justreadflorida.com/docs/kit.pdf

Elementary K-2

• Keep a reading log/journal of the books you have read. Include the title(s), a one-sentence summary of each, and write two or three new words you have learned from your reading.
• Draw a picture of your favorite page.  If possible explain in writing why this page is your favorite.
• Draw a map of the book’s setting.  Explain the setting in two or three sentences below the picture.
• Make a picture timeline of all the events in the book.
• Make two posters about the book using one or two of the following media:  finger-paint, water colors, crayons, chalk, real materials.
• Rewrite the story in picture book form.
• Create a puppet or finger puppet about your favorite character.
• Using a shoe box, create a diorama (three-dimensional scene which includes models of people, building, plants, and animals) of an important scene in the book.
• Make up another beginning and ending for the story.  Include pictures/drawings.
• Cut out magazine pictures to make a collage or poster illustrating the idea of the book.
• Make a mobile showing pictures or symbols of happenings in the book.
• Draw a picture postcard to a friend about what the book is about.
• Draw a portrait of the main character and write a one sentence summary to accompany your sketch.
• Draw a comic strip of your favorite scene.

1. Make listening to a story a regular part of your child’s bedtime routine. This will help your child develop a lifetime habit of reading before he or she goes to sleep.

2. Help your child select the story or book. (Take turns selecting - sometimes you select and sometimes your child selects.)

3. Relax!  Sit your child beside you, or make sure that he or she is lying comfortable in bed.

4. Talk very briefly about the cover, illustrations, and the book’s title before you start.

5. Make sure that your child can see the pictures. Pictures help a young reader follow the story or understand the information in a nonfiction book.

6. From time to time, run your finger under the print to show that your voice follows the line of text.

7. After reading a story, talk about it for a minute or two (not too long!) You might ask some questions, but be careful not to destroy your child’s enjoyment of the book. Ask questions such as:

• Why do you think he/she did that?
• What did you think was going to happen then?
• What might have happened if…?

8. If the child prefers to read about factual subjects, ask questions such as:

• What did you learn about…that you didn’t know before?
• Did this book tell you what you wanted to know about…?