1st Grade Requirements

1st Grade Requirements

Research has shown that the single greatest factor in predicting reading success is whether a child is read to when they are young.

Requirements: Students entering First Grade in the fall are asked to read and record 12 books during the summer.

A list of suggested books is attached. These books are merely suggestions. Please feel free to read any books that are appropriate for your reader. The staff at the public library can also be a good source for book suggestions.

Record Keeping: With your child, fill out a summer reading log for each book. There are 2 logs on each page. Please return the Reading Logs to the English teacher the first week of school*. (View)

Incentive: If all 12 summer reading logs are turned into the English teacher, the child will be awarded 4 “casual dress” stickers. Each of the 4 stickers earns the wearer the privilege of a free casual dress day. The stickers are to be used in September.

Reading List

Alphabet Books

• Animalia by Graeme Baese

• Alligator Arrived with Apples by Crescent Dragonwagon

• Q is for Duck by Mary Elting & Michael Folsom

• Antics! By Cathi Hepworth

• A Is For Africa by Ifeoma Onyefulu

• The Icky Bug Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta

• Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood

Folktales and Fables

• The Boy Who Cried Wolf an Aesop Fable

• The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing an Aesop Fable

• The Ugly Ducking by Hans Christian Anderson

• Jack and the Beanstalk by Steven Kellogg

• Hansel and Gretel by James Marshall

Rhyming Books

• Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan and Janet Ahlberg

• The Best Mother Goose Ever by Richard Scarry

• Any Book by Dr. Seuss

• Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy E. Shaw and Margot Apple

Beginning Leveled Books

• Biscuit series by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

• Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant

• I Can Read series

• Step into Reading series

Picture Books

• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

• The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

• Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner

• Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long & David Shannan

• Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Nonfiction Books

• Magic School Bus Books by Joanna Cole

• How Do Birds Find Their Way? by Roma Gans

• Meet George Washington by Patricia A. Pingry

• Our Earth by Anne Rockwell

• What Lives in a Shell? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld