How can students avoid the summer slide?
Students can:
- Complete grade 4/5 assignments on Khan Academy
- Complete knowledgehook.com missions
- Practice math facts on Reflex (3 days a week)
- Practice math skills on prodigy or sumdog
- Complete any reading assignments on sumdog
- Write in a journal
- Write creative stories or letters to family or friends
- Aim to read 6 books over the summer
- Re-Watch any of the math videos on the blog
- Try out any of the code.org assignments/lessons
Books for Grades 4 – 6
The View from Saturday – by E. L. Konigsburg (RL 5.9)
And One for All – by Theresa Nelson (RL 5.2)
The Bad Beginning – by Lemony Snicket (RL 6.4)
Because of Winn-Dixie – by Kate DiCamillo (RL 3.9)
Beezus and Ramona – by Beverly Cleary (RL 4.8)
Bridge to Terabithia – by Katherine Paterson
Bud, Not Buddy – by Christopher Paul Curtis (RL 4.6)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – by Roald Dahl (RL 4.8)
Charlotte’s Web – by E.B. White (RL 4.4)
A Gathering of Days – by Joan Blos (RL 6.7)
A Giraffe and a Half – by Shel Silverstein (RL 2.7)
Harriet the Spy – by Louise Fitzhugh (RL 4.5)
Harry Potter (all of them) by J. K. Rowling (RL 5.7-RL7.2)
Jackie and Me – by Dan Gutman (RL 4.3)
James and the Giant Peach – by Roald Dahl (RL 4.8)
A Light in the Attic – by Shel Silverstein (RL 3.2)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – by C.S. Lewis (RL 4.9)
Maniac Magee – by Jerry Spinelli (RL 4.7)
Missing May – by Cynthia Rylant (RL 5.3)
Number the Stars – by Lois Lowry (RL 4.5)
Out of the Dust – by Karen Hesse (RL 5.3)
Ramona’s World – by Beverly Cleary (RL 4.8)
Superfudge – by Judy Blume (RL 3.4)
The Trumpet of the Swan – by E.B. White (RL 4.9)
Tuck Everlasting – by Natalie Babbitt (RL 5)
The Seer of Shadows – by Avi (RL 5.2)
Carol Tarra & Bella: The Elephant and Dog who became Best Friends – by Buckley (RL 5.9)
John Reynolds Stone Fox – by Gardiner (RL 4.0)
The Birthday Ball – by Lowry, Lois (RL 5.2)
Books for Grade 7-8
All Creatures Great and Small – by James Herriot (RL6.8)
Among the Hidden – by Margaret Haddix (RL 4.8)
Brian’s Winter – by Gary Paulsen (RL 5.9)
The Cay – by Theodore Taylor (RL 5.3)
Children of the River – by Linda Crew (RL 4.3)
Dicey’s Song – by Cynthia Voight (RL 5)
The Endless Steppe – by Esther Hautzig (RL 6.3)
The Golden Compass – by Philip Pullman (RL 7.1)
Guts: The True Stories Behind the Hatchet Books – by Gary Paulsen (RL 6.5)
Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare – by Tina Schwager (RL 7.6)
Hatchet – by Gary Paulsen (RL 5.7)
Haveli – by Suzanne Fisher Staples (RL 6.7)
Johnny Tremain – by Esther Forbes (RL 5.9)
Journey of the Sparrows – by Fran Leeper Buss (RL 4.6 )
Let the Circle Be Unbroken – by Mildred Taylor (RL 5.7)
Little Women – by Louisa May Alcott (RL 7.9)
The Lottery Rose – by Irene Hunt (RL 5.6)
The Master Puppeteer – by Katherine Paterson (RL 5.4)
Night – by Elie Weisel (RL 4.8)
A Night to Remember – by Walter Lord (RL 7)
The Pearl – by John Steinbeck (RL 7.1)
The Prince and the Pauper – by Mark Twain (RL 9.3)
Rebecca – by Daphne DuMaurier (RL 6.8)
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum – by Catherine Paterson (RL 5.6)
Streams to the River, River to the Sea – by Scott O’Dell (RL 4.8)
Summer of My German Soldier – by Bette Greene (RL 5.2)
The Red Pony – by John Steinbeck (RL 6.1)
A Thief of Time – by Tony Hillerman (RL 4.7)
Things Not Seen – by Andrew Clements (RL 4.5)
Troubling a Star – by Madeleine L’Engle (RL 5.1)
Walk Two Moons – by Sharon Creech (RL 4.9)
Walkabout – by James Vance Marshall (RL 5.9)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – by Christopher Paul Curtis (RL 5)
Wringer – by Jerry Spinelli (RL 4.5)
Pop – by Korman, Gordon (RL 5.1)
Gathering Blue – by Lowry, Lois (RL 5)
This Dark Endeavor – by Oppel, Kenneth (RL 4.9)
Brian’s Return – by Paulsen, Gary (RL 5.5)
Holes – by Sachar, Louis (RL 4.6)
The Unwanteds – by Lisa McMann (RL 5.7)
Above World – by Jenn Reese (RL 5.0)
