Summer Reading Resources- Fun in the Sun Can Be Educational

Scholastic offers many resources to help keep your children and young aduts reading this summer. They have a bunch of different book list recommendations as well as a reading timer app. In addition, they provide forms such as a reading log, book review template, character scrapbook template and certificate. You can make reading fun for your children and learn at the same time. Check out their materials at:?http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/collection/more-reading-resources/keep-your-kids-reading-all-summer-long

Manhattan Beach Unified School District (MBUSD) also has their own summer reading lists for 1^st through 12^th grade published on their website. You can download each individual list as a pdf.

http://www.mbusd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=138436&type=d&pREC_ID=274007

Check out summer reading clubs at the Los Angeles Public Library from June 9 to August 2^nd. These programs offer activities, shows, art/crafts, and digital badges fr reading and are free to the public.

http://www.lapl.org/summer-reading

This article highlights how to help your students include non-fiction selections in their summer reading, including National Geographic Readers, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/childrens-summer-reading-guide-2014-level-1-readers-and-beyond-1403651209

This website offers a list of books for all students ages 7 through 17 and rates them by starts as well as gives a very short synopsis of the book.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/summer-reading-for-kids-and-teens