Students entering 2nd and 3rd grades
• Complete outside reading summer books.
• Choose your favorite for your Brown Bag Report.
• Decorate your Brown Bag (free at supermarket) and fill the bag with at least five items that describe or represent your favorite character from the book.
• Create a Sequence of Events Flow Chart that contains the important events in the plot. You may illustrate and/or write the events on a 12x18 piece of paper. Include: flow chart, underlined title of book, author, illustrator, and your name.
• Prepare to share the events from your flow chart and to tell the class about your favorite character.
• On the day of your book report, you may dress up like your favorite character (not required).
Note: Returning students will give Brown Bag Book Reports the first Friday of the 2008-2009 school year. New students must complete the reading assignments; no written work is required.
Students entering 4th and 5th grades
Make sure you read the assigned books for your grade level within the choices listed.
• On a 12”x18” piece of construction paper or poster-paper, create Intellectual Art for your chosen book.
• Include three visual tools (click on link above for visual tool samples) that you have studied in the previous year. • Additional information to include on your poster:
1. Book, author, and illustrator (if there are illustrations)
2. Book title (underlined)
3. Two new vocabulary words with student-friendly definition and illustration
4. Make sure to include your name
Note: Assignments are due the first Friday of the 2008-2009 school year for returning students. New students must complete the reading assignments; no written work is required.