Listed below are suggested reading activities your child may choose to participate in this summer. These activities include the Governor's Reading Challenge, Kent Memorial Library's Reading program, and Suffield Summer Reading Challenge.  Suffield's reading challenge asks all students to follow a path (or multiple paths) on the map of Connecticut.  

This summer for reading your child can:

  1. Log the books they read at home on the CT Summer Reading Journal.
  2. Follow the map to school on our Suffield Summer Reading Challenge.
  3. At the start of the 2017-2018 school year your child can return their Summer Reading Journal and/or their Suffield Summer Reading Challenge to their new teacher.
  4. Your child may be asked to participate in a classroom book discussion to share summer reading with new classmates.
  5. This experience will provide your child with the opportunity to get to know new classmates and start the year off with meaningful literacy conversations.

Tips for how to choose a good book
  1. What makes a good book is your child’s reaction to it!
  2. Look at the cover and read the summary on the back of the book.  Does it sound interesting?
  3. 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?
  4. Look through the book.  Do the illustrations, photographs, and print make you think that you would enjoy reading this book?
  5. Open the book to any page.  Read it carefully.  Can you easily understand and discuss what’s going on?
Click the photo above to go to the K-5 Suffield Summer Reading Challenge
Students are encouraged to also participate in Kent Memorial Library’s Summer Reading Challenge.  Stop in to see Miss Wendy on a weekly basis to earn weekly prizes for the BUILD A BETTER WORLD summer reading program.
Reading Rockets Summer Reading Activities
​Reading Rockets 2017 Summer Reading Guide 
​Link to Association for Library Services to 
Children 2017 Summer Reading Lists