Second Grade Summer Reading List

The purpose of the summer reading list I is to encourage students to continually read and to expand their reading interest. With parents, teachers, library media specialists and public librarians offering reading guidance and encouragement through these lists, our students will achieve the benefits that only reading can bring.

Students will be responsible for reading five books and completing two activities for their upcoming grade level prior to the first day of school.

Some suggested activities:

1. Create a new book cover. Include an attractive cover design, summary of the book, and information about the author.

2. Make a poster to advertise your book,

3. Design a T-shirt for your character.

4. Create a crossword puzzle using vocabulary words from the book (remember to write clues).

5. Draw three pictures that show events from the beginning, middle and end of the story. Write a sentence that describes each picture.

6. Make a shoebox diorama to show an interesting part of the book.

7. Make three bookmarks about the book. Show a main character, an important scene, and the main idea of the books.

8. If your book is a biography of a famous person, write about that person. Tell why he or she is famous and three or more things you learned.

Title Author

Hurry, Hurry Mary Dear N. M. Bodecker

I Am Rosa Parks Rosa Parks

Talking Eggs Robert San Souci

Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman

Great Kapok Tree Lynne Cherry

Knoxville, Tennessee Nikki Giovanni

Owl Moon Jane Yolen

Young Cam Jansen series David Adler

Henry and Mudge series Cynthia Rylant

Magic Tree House series Mary Pope Osborne

Junie B. Jones series Barbara Park

Horrible Harry series Suzy Kline

New Nancy Drew Notebook series Carolyn Keene

Jigsaw Jones series James Preller

Little Bear series Else Minarik

Berenstain Bears series Stan & Jan Berenstain

Arthur series Marc Brown

Franklin series Paulette Bourgeois

Froggy series Jonathan London

Golly Sisters series Betsy Byars

Zack’s Alligator series Shirley Mozelle

Amelia Bedelia series Peggy Parish

Madeline series Ludwig Bemelmen

Other Authors to choose from:

Tomie DePaola

Steven Kellogg

Audrey Wood

Ted Arnold

Maurice Sendak

Robert Munsch

Kevin Henkes

Eric Carle

Paul Zelinsky

Gail Gibbons

Bill Martin

Jan Brett

Jack Prelutsky (poetry)

Erica Briers Mem Fox

Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia & Fredric McKissack

HAPPY SUMMER READING!!