Summer Reading Lists

Click here for a message from Lower School librarian Kathy Fehrenbach and to find out about this year's Family Literacy Project.

Book Suggestions from Hawken School

Book Suggestions for Children in Grades PS-3
kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended.cfm
www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/booklists/children_booklists.html

Book Suggestions by Topic and Grade
www.multcolib.org/kids/booklists/
www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/

Summer Reading Websites
BookHive: Your Guide to Children's Literature and Books
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
Monroe County Public Library Booklists of Children's Literature
Read Write Think
About.com: Children's Books
LibraryBooklists.org
Santa Clara County Library Booklists for Kids

Summer Assignments

Grades PS-3
All Hawken students in grades PS-3 will participate in a Family Literacy Project.

Preschool and Pre-K
We recommend that you read to your children for 20 minutes each day. Talk about the books you read, notice the illustrations, sequences, and new words. Complete the Family Literacy Project.

Kindergarten
Kindergartners can read or have read to them, books on the following topics: Families, Friends, School, Sharing/Feelings and one picture book about ABCs, Colors, Numbers. Please fill in the 5 titles on the sheet given. Complete the Family Literacy Project.

Grade 1
Read, Read, Read. Complete the Family Literacy Project.

Grade 2
Read, Read, Read. Choose one book and complete the graphic organizer. Complete the Family Literacy Project.

Grade 3
Read two fiction and two nonfiction titles. Please bring to school on the first day one fiction adn one nonfiction book. These may be from teh public library. Complete the Family Literacy Project.

Grades 4-5, Summer 2009
Grade 5 Book Report Form, Summer 2009
Grades 6-8, Summer 2009
Grades 9-12