Summer Reading
The goal of the Summer Reading Program is to engage ALL students in rigorous, high interest novels (chapter books) of THEIR choice. The key to broadening our love for reading is through pleasure and interest. Throughout the summer, students will actively read a novel and participate in a reading/writing connection activity within the first grading period.
Summer Reading is Required For all Advanced ELA students. All other students are strongly encouraged to participate.
Select a book (chapter book) of your choice on your grade level from your home, public library, online, or anywhere you find books! You MAY NOT select a picture book, or a book that you have read, or a book that was taught in your previous ELA classes. Summer reading novels need to be read by the end of August 2021.
~ Free San Antonio Public Library Card Visit: https://goo.gl/oxAzxt
~ Try free ebooks by visiting: https://soraapp.com/library/johnpaulstevens
Novel Choices: we have developed a list of suggested authors and popular novel lists you can pick from. Don’t forget to ask family members, friends, and teachers for novels to read.
Authors Jason Reynolds Kwame Alexander Sandra Cisneros Lynda Hunt Alan Gratz Suzanne Collins Marissa Meyer Neal Shusterman Veronica Roth Gordon Korman John Green Joan Lowery Nixon Ally Condie Jennifer Holm Lauren Oliver Robert Lipsyte J.K. Rowling Rick Riordan Gary Paulsen Jenny Han Markus Zusak Carl Deuker Alex London Tim Green Sarah Dessen Sharon Draper Caroline Cooney Raina Telgmeier Jerry Spinelli James Patterson | Popular Novel Lists International Literacy Association: Young Adult’s Choice List https://goo.gl/GJDGqT Lone Star Reading List http://www.txla.org/groups/lone-star Summer Reading Book List Broken Down By Genre: https://imaginationsoup.net/7th-grade-summer-reading-list-age-12-13/ Email our wonderful Librarian, Mrs. Stafford! laura.stafford@nisd.net or visit the library catalog to see her curated collections of recommended books: tinyurl.com/stinsoncat
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There are no required assignments/projects for students to do during the summer for their novel. However, when students return to school next year, their ELA teacher will have some reading/writing connection assignments for them to complete to cover the concepts of their novel. These will be graded as formative daily grades, and could include news reports, cartoon/comic strips, brochures/pamphlets, webquests, illustrations, plot/character analysis, etc.
To organize your thoughts while reading use: https://goo.gl/enAqYm
