Brockton Public Schools
Summer Reading List and Log
2018

Dream Big Read

Recommended Reading for Students Entering Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten

Dear Family:

Reading is an important part of everyday life. Just because it is summer, students should not put their books away! Brockton Public Schools invite you and your family to participate in our Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “Dream Big, READ!”

The importance of summer reading cannot be overemphasized. Educational researchers note that some children’s reading levels dropped as much as two grades when students did not read regularly over the summer months. It is really simple: the more students read the better readers they become. Your support is a critical part of the Summer Reading Program.

Students entering grades Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten can read books from the Recommended Authors List, the Optional Titles List or students may select a book of their choice. As a parent or guardian, you may pick books to read together, too. Just record the title of any books your child reads this summer on the reading log and sign your initials. Look for the log on the inside of this brochure or on our website: www.bpsma.org. Send this form back with your child in the fall for a certificate of participation!

We hope you and your family will read this summer, and reap all of the wonderful benefits that reading has to offer.

Sincerely,

Kathleen A. Smith, JD

Superintendent of Schools

Suggested Titles for Students Entering Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten 2018

ABC

• A My Name is Alice Jane Bayer
• ABC, I Like Me! Nancy Carlson
• Afro Bets Cheryl Willis Hudson
• ANTics!:An alphabetical anthology Catherine Hepworth
• The Z Was Zapped Chris Van Allsburg

Colors

• Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? Tana Hoban
• Mary Wore Her Red Dress… Merle Peek
• Mouse Paint Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Lois Ehlert
• Who Said Red? Mary Serfozo

Counting

• Arctic Fives Arrive Elinor J. Pinczes
• Five Little Monkeys Eileen Christelow
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Dr. Seuss
• One Hungry Monster Susan Heyboer O’Keefe
• Ten Black Dots Donald Crews

Fables/Fairy Tales

• Aesop’s Fables Lisbeth Zwerger
• Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly G. Brian Karas
• Seven Blind Mice Ed Young
• Stone Soup Marcia Brown

Families

• A Chair for My Mother Vera B.Williams
• Just Grandma and Me Mercer Mayer
• Love You Forever Robert N. Munsch
• Mama, Do You Love Me? Barbara Joosse

Multicultural

• Bright Eyes, Brown Skin Cheryl Willis Hudson
• Hats, Hats, Hats Ann Morris
• Knots on a Counting Rope Bill Martin
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe
• Two Eyes, A Nose And A Mouth Roberta Intrater

Nursery Rhymes

• Babushka’s Mother Goose Patricia Polacco
• Chinese Mother Goose Robert Wyndham
• Eensy-Weensy Spider Mary Ann Hoberman
• A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes Kady MacDonald-Denton

Rhyme

• The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss
• Down By the Bay Raffi
• Each Peach, Pear, Plum Janet Ahlberg
• Eek! There's a Mouse in the House Wong Herbert Yee

School

• All Ready for School Leone Adelson
• My First Days of School Jane Hamilton-Merritt
• School Bus Donald Crews
• Timothy Goes to School Rosemary Wells
• Who's Going to Take Care of Me? Michelle Magorian

Science

• A House for a Hermit Crab Eric Carle
• Weather Words Gail Gibbons
• Digging Up Dinosaurs Aliki
• Pumpkin, Pumpkin Jeanne Titherington
• How Is a Crayon Made? Osbert A. Charles
• Over in the Meadow John M. Langstaff
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr.
• Cowboys Glen Rounds
• The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper
• Marsupial Sue John Lithgow
• The Story of Johnny Appleseed Aliki
• Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak

I Can Read! Books-Level 1
PreK-Grade One

• Danny and the Dinosaur Syd Hoff
• Little Bear Elsa Minarik
• Morris Goes to School Bernard Wiseman
• No More Monsters for Me! Peggy Parish
• Ready, Set, Go! John Stadler

Recommended Picture Book
Authors & Illustrators

• Edward Ardizzone
• Jan Brett
• Margaret Wise Brown
• Eve Bunting
• Virginia Lee Burton
• Eric Carle
• Donald Crews
• Tomie DePaola
• Gail Gibbons
• Tana Hoban
• Ezra Jack Keats
• Arnold Lobel
• Bill Martin Jr.
• Jack Prelutsky
• Maurice Sendak
• John Steptoe
• Chris VanAllsburg
• Judith Viorst
• Rosemary Wells
• Vera B.Williams

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