What's Included in Each Pack Books and components are available in English and Spanish. *
5-, 6-, or 10-Book Packs Choose from fiction and/or nonfiction, or specialty themes. Titles are updated every year to ensure students receive new books to add to their home libraries.
Summer Reading Journal Make reading a daily habit with activities that families and students can complete together.
FAMILY TIME
Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey
Before Reading Preview the book with your child. Together, look at the cover image and read the title, author’s name, and other cover text. Then, read through the book one time, pausing only to explain unfamiliar words and phrases. While Reading Reread the book, this time pausing to discuss it. Use the following prompts to guide your discussion. Feel free to add your own! After “Classroom Ten looked at the pictures”: The Big Calendar in Classroom Ten is always the same. This week it is different. How does Henry feel about the change in the calendar? Is Henry excited about the parade? After “Katie got a kazoo”: What do you learn about Henry on this page? How does he feel about the musical instruments? After “But it is Share Time”: Why does Henry go to the school nurse? How are Henry’s thoughts and emotions affecting how his body feels? After “Henry marched out of the closet”: How do Henry and Samuel help each other? After Reading At the end of the book it says, “Henry found his own way. Just like always.” What does this mean? How does Henry find his own way? What does he do to take care of himself throughout the story?
Think Sheets Promote close reading with book-specific Think Sheets for each title that include writing activities and comprehension questions.
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Ready, Set, Read . . . Together! Tips for Family Read-Alouds Reading aloud is good for everyone in the family, not just kids! But it is a research-proven strategy for helping kids learn to read and for building literacy, regardless of whether the child or the adult is doing the reading. Reading aloud improves children’s reading by
• immersing them in language. • motivating them to pick up books on their own. • exposing them to new vocabulary and types of texts. • inspiring them to be super readers.
So how do you add reading aloud to an already busy routine? And how do you make it special ? Here are some tips that might help: • Ask your reader or a family member to read aloud while others are preparing a meal, doing the dishes, folding laundry, or tidying up. • Plan your family read-aloud time. Make a read-aloud chart and hang it where everyone can see it. Invite family members to sign up for books they want to read or write down their own book suggestions. • Set up a special place in your home for read-alouds. Make it as cozy, comfortable, and inviting as possible, and be sure there’s plenty of reading light. • Before you start reading, preview what the book is about. If it’s a topic that might be new to some family members, make sure everyone has enough information to make sense of the story. Building background knowledge makes reading and listening to a story more enjoyable for everyone. • To be continued . . . Time to stop? Try leaving listeners wanting more by ending at a dramatic moment in the action.
NEW! Family Guide Build family confidence with read-aloud tips and conversation starters to create everyday literacy moments.
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Timeline to Get Set for Summer Reading (Grades 3–5)
About 8 weeks before end of school year: • Hold a class or school literacy night to introduce parents and families to summer reading. Help generate enthusiasm by having kids design posters about summer reading, make collages about favorite books, or create their own mini-books to have on display at this event. • Have kids create a class mural to put up in the classroom, hallway, or cafeteria, linking summer reading with summer fun.
Program Guide for Educators Get your summer reading program up and running with a downloadable guide that supports implementation and outreach.
With next-to-last report card (March/April): • Send home a family letter about summer reading. (See sample letter in this guide.)
About 4 weeks before end of school year: • Introduce kids to logging minutes. During independent reading time, write on chart paper a sample book title, followed by a write-on line. Have each kid note the start time on a sticky note. At the end of the independent reading period, take note of the new time and determine together how many minutes have elapsed. Then record the number of minutes alongside the book title on your chart-paper model. Have kids make a daily habit of logging minutes, and remind them that every minute counts! Suggest to kids that when they read during the summer, they might want to ask someone to help them record and add up their daily reading times. • Introduce the habit of using a journal for daily writing entries. Set up a “journaling time” during the day to make journaling part of the class routine and to demonstrate that ideas can be set down in a matter of 5 or 10 minutes, to be revisited and expanded later. Students will appreciate having a place to record their ideas and will quickly take to the idea of checking it daily to reread or to make new entries. With final report card (May/June): • Set a reading goal that each child can reasonably achieve. Distribute reading pledges and invite students to illustrate theirs and take them home to post on the refrigerator or a bulletin board. • Send home a list of the My Books Summer books you are giving children. Suggest that parents post the list at home and check off the title as each book is completed. If possible, also list other recommended titles to help children make the transition to the next grade level.
Program Guide
Educator Resource • GRADES 3–5
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*Spanish packs available for Grades PreK–5 only.
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