Listed below are suggested reading activities your child may choose to participate in this summer. These activities include the Governor's Reading Challenge, Suffield's One Book, One School shared reading experience, and Lexia. In addition, students in Grades 3 through 5 might be interested in reading texts from the 2021 Nutmeg Nominees list!
This summer for reading your child can:
Tips for how to choose a good book
This summer for reading your child can:
- Log the books they read at home on the CT Summer Reading Journal
- At the start of the 2020-2021 school year, your child can return their Summer Reading Journal to their new teacher.
- Your child may be asked to participate in a classroom book discussion to share summer reading with new classmates.
- This experience will provide your child with the opportunity to get to know new classmates and start the year off with meaningful literacy conversations.
- All students who return reading logs will be recognized in the Fall.
Tips for how to choose a good book
- What makes a good book is your child’s reaction to it!
- Look at the cover and read the summary on the back of the book. Does it sound interesting?
- Ask your friends, brothers or sisters if they have read this book or other books by this author. Did they enjoy reading this book or books by this author?
- Look through the book. Do the illustrations, photographs, and print make you think that you would enjoy reading this book?
- Open the book to any page. Read it carefully. Can you easily understand and discuss what’s going on?
- Summer Reading Suggested Book Titles
Grade K - Grade 2
Grade 3 - Grade 4
Grade 5 - Grade 6
Suffield's One Book, One School
A Boy Called Bat by Elana. K Arnold
A Boy Called Bat by Elana. K Arnold