NMHS Reads

What Is It?

Our summer literacy challenge is designed to keep you engaged in reading, writing, and thinking! You choose your books and activities. You even have the chance to win prizes!



100 Points

100 points will earn you an invitation to our summer literacy challenge celebration!

200 Points

200 points will earn you an invitation to our summer literacy challenge celebration PLUS an exciting additional surprise!

Win Your Grade!

The highest points earner at each grade level will also be recognized!



  • Submit the Google form with the title and author of your book & a quick rating

  • Turn your favorite page into a blackout or found poem

  • Create a piece of art to represent a character in the book

  • Read a book with a family member (snap a picture of reading together)

  • Write a book review for the library catalog

  • Create fake social media posts by a character or important figure in the text

  • Create a music playlist for your book (explain how the music ties in)

  • Write a letter to the author explaining the impact the book had on you (bonus: submit proof that you mailed the letter)

  • Write an alternate ending to the book

  • Record a book talk on this flip grid: https://flipgrid.com/4e2df93c

  • Create a poem or song to respond to a book

  • Write a review of a book

  • Show the plot of a book in only gifs or memes

  • Complete a one-pager

  • Reading Response journals

  • Text Brain Heart response for a novel

  • Read a book and watch its TV/movie adaptation and create a compare/contrast presentation

  • Create a 60 second movie trailer for a book that has not been turned into a movie or tv show

  • Create a storyboard for a book that has not been turned into a movie or tv show

  • With a partner or group, retell your book (with a twist!) in a visual format using audio and video

  • Create a comic/graphic version of a chapter or more of the book

Summer Reading 20/21

How do I get a book?

email Ms. Kissel

CKissel@CVSU.org

Visit the “Audiobooks & eBooks” page on the library website



Complete the NMHS Reads Literacy Challenge Form to submit your work to your teacher(s)!

Contact your English teachers or librarian for more information!
Loiselle@CVSU.org; TOGrady@CVSU.org; ABushey@CVSU.org; CGilman@CVSU.org; CHigh@CVSU.org; CKissel@CVSU.org