PRInTS ELA 2021

Summer brings an opportunity to explore your passions and try new things. Summer brings the opportunities to learn, reflect and grow. Summer brings the freedom to establish new habits and take on new attitudes. Summer brings ample time to read, read, read. This summer we want to encourage all of our students to remember they are life-long learners. This summer we hope you, our students, will keep your brains engaged through summer reading. Developing a "reading habit" is a critical component of becoming a successful citizen in the world. It is a way to laugh, cry, and make sense of the world. It offers us mirrors to reflect upon our lives and experiences, and doors to peer into worlds that our unfamiliar to us. Summer offers us endless hours to read on our own terms about our passions, one great book after another. Summer reading is an investment in YOU.

PRInTS is a district-wide initiative to encourage students to read and invest in themselves throughout the summer. This year from K-12 we are encouraging all students to select their own books for summer reading. To that end we have compiled some great titles and places to get free electronic books that we have organized by grade bands. This will offer students an opportunity to enrich their reading lives and writing skills. The expectation is that students will choose a book at their reading level or grade-level and read. We encourage students to select a text that will be of high interest. On our pages there are also documents to track the titles that students read as well as documents for older students that may be used to gather notes on the book(s). Click to the appropriate pages by grade band (Elementary ELA, Middle School ELA and High School ELA ) for details.

Pequannock Township High School PRInTS ELA

Pequannock Valley Middle School PRInTS ELA

Stephen J. Gerace Elementary School PRInTS ELA

Hillview Elementary School PRInTS ELA

North Boulevard Elementary School PRInTS ELA

Even though the requirement is one book, we are encouraging the continuation of reading multiple texts throughout the summer and into the upcoming school year.

In his book "On Writing" Stephen King proclaims that "Books are uniquely portable magic." Never has there been a better summer for portable magic.

Enjoy your summer and Happy Reading!

Best,

Carrie A. Thomas, PreK to 12 English Language Arts & ESL Supervisor