VERNON TOWNSHIP’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM

June 20th: Book Day!For the first time in our history every student, at every grade level, will receive a book to

take home for the summer on the first day

of summer.

Walnut Ridge:

Before they even begin school, families signing up for kindergarten will receive two books as gifts from Mrs. Gebhardt and Mrs. Krops to read to their children as they prepare for school!

Walnut Ridge: Kindergarteners going to 1st Grade and 1st Graders going to Second Grade.

Using the Developmental Reading Assessment for the levels that the child is reading on, the children in kindergarten and first grade choose on “Book Choice Day” two books on reading level. Then, on another day the child gets to choose three more books that are “reach” or high interest books. All five books are gifts that go home in a cool bag on June 20th – Vernon’s Book Day! Thanks to Mrs. Gebhardt for her support of this program.

Rolling Hills and Cedar Mountain: The Competition Begins!

 USING THE DEVELOPMENTAL READING ASSESSMENT AS AN INDICATOR OF PRESENT READING LEXILE LEVELS, MRS. QUE AND MRS. WALKER WILL BE SETTING UP A BOOK FAIR IN THEIR ROOMS AFTER THE DRAS ARE OVER. USING THE ASSESSMENTS FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK THEY WILL INSTRUCT STUDENTS TO MAKE TWO CHOICES OF “ON-LEVEL” READING BOOKS AND THREE “FOR FUN” CHOICES!

A BIG “THANK YOU” TO MR. SCHMIDT AND MR. MUDRICK FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THIS PROGRAM!

In both Cedar Mountain and Rolling Hills the principals have agreed to have a contest with their students. If 80% of all the books given out (5 books per student)are read and a signed book log is returned then a “Fall Fun Day” of literacy and games will be awarded to each school.

One Book, One Grade! Lounsberry!

Tales from “The Hollow:” The exiting students from Cedar Mountain and Rolling Hills are going to be greeted by Mrs. Rostami, Mrs. Schiano, Ms. Sabia with the book Wonder by RJ Palacio. This “one book, one grade” moment is a first of its kind for Lounsberry. The children will read the book over the summer and prepare for the first week of school with the summer reading assignment. The assignment will ask them to compare a character in the book to themselves. Upon entering Lounsberry as a new student they will, in their new classes, introduce themselves by discussing who they are most like in the novel. Thanks to Dr. Stumper and Ms. Piszczek for their funding of this project!

Lounsberry Hollow! It is your choice: • For our incoming 6th graders

there will be a book fair in Mrs. Schiano’s library. The children will come in with their language arts teachers and learn through video trailers and discussion about the genres these five novels. They will then choose their summer book. This event will happen on June 20th. They will be allowed to begin reading right there! At the end of the day they take their gift from Dr. Stumper and Mrs. Piszczek home for the summer.

BECAUSE OF MR. TERUPT

by Rob Buyea

BYSTANDER by James Preller

LIONS OF LITTLE ROCK

by Kristin Levine

TALL STORY by Candy Gourley

OUT OF MY MIND

by Sharon Draper

PEAK By

Roland Smith

Glen

Meadow!Future of Us by Jay Asher

Berlin Boxing Club by Share Now

Matched by Ally Condie

Legend by Marie Lu Half Brother by Kenneth Opple

HIPSTERS AND COOL GIRLS:OMG! Five Books – 1 Choice!

There will be summer reading nights and book fairs in Glen Meadow in June and July and Ms. Yost and Mrs. Smaldone are entering the Glen Meadow students in the Scholastic’s Summer Reading Challenge 2014. Each student in Glen Meadow will be able to log their reading minutes on-line which will count towards beating the world record of 176,438,473 minutes. The contest is from May 5th to September 5th. Books will be chosen at the book fair and coming home June 20th!Thanks to Dr. Anderson and Mr. Kosek for the gift of books!!

Yeah, that’s right – Summer’s Here and the Reading is Easy!Vernon Township High School Rocks the Summer Read!

• Eighth Grade into Ninth Grade

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros• Ninth Grade into Tenth Grade

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd• Tenth Grade into Eleventh Grade

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

• Eleventh Grade into Twelfth Grade

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The high school will be loaning books to every student on every level. There will be assessments, both informal and formal, at the outset of the new school year and there will be a letter going home about the value of reading in the summer. The Honors/AP students will be receiving more books and assignments as well. (And where does this all this reading get us? Princeton, Cornell and Brown of course)Thanks to Mr. Dunnigan who helped supply the extra

books we needed!

The Board of EducationMr. Arlington and Dr. Maranzano

Our PrincipalsOur Reading Specialists and Literacy

CoachesAND Our Wonderful Elementary, LA and

English Teachers.

THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS PROGRAM GOES TO:

From here . . .

To here . . .

June 20th: Book Day!For the first time every student, at every grade level, will receive a book to take home for the summer on the first day of summer.