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Summer Reading 2014 For S tudents E ntering Grade 8

Summer Reading 2014 For S tudents E ntering Grade 8. “No Boring Books in the summer!” - Dav Pilkey , author of Captain Underpants , on summer reading. Summer reading requirements for students entering Grade 8. Read 3-4 personal choice books

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Summer Reading 2014 For S tudents E ntering Grade 8

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  1. Summer Reading 2014For Students Entering Grade 8 “No Boring Books in the summer!” -DavPilkey, author of Captain Underpants, on summer reading

  2. Summer reading requirementsfor students entering Grade 8 • Read 3-4 personal choicebooks (*Level One L.A. students must read a minimum of 4 books) • Keep a reading log (use the online log at WPL) of all the books read and number of pages read • Turn in your reading log, signed by a parent, to your language arts teacher in the fall • Find forms/info @ the Wethersfield Schools website

  3. Teen Summer Reading Program @ Wethersfield Public Library • Registerfor the online book review program • READ great books, log your reviews online beginning June 30th *(and ending August 18th) • Read and Write. For every book review you add online, your name is entered for a weekly prize drawing of a $15 Barnes and Noble gift card • For every 3 books read, you get entered into the grand prize raffle to win four pack of movie tickets and soda and popcorn voucher • Read and record five books, you will be entered into the super grand prize raffle, an Amazon Kindle HD! Read and record five more—earn another chance. Five more—another chance! Earn as many as you can!

  4. Set a Goal: • School goal: SDMS Students will read 2,400 books • Staff goal: SDMS staff will read 300 books • Ms. Poulos’ goal: 25 books (20 YA, 5 adult) • Finish the Teen Nutmegs and High School Nutmegs What is your personal goal? Number of books? Ask us if I met my goal when you come back to school in August!

  5. Overdrive: @ WPL and @ WPSfor digital book & audio downloads • Free digital downloads of books and audio in multiple formats (ePub, Kindle, mp3, WMA) • Requires public library card for WPL site • Requires Username/Password for WPS site Username: LastnameFirstname Password: Computerpassword## • Checkout for two weeks; no renewals • Requires free download of Overdrive Media App (for mobile devices) and Adobe Digital ID (for most devices except Kindles)

  6. TumbleBook Cloud is an online collection of ebooks and read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books! All books are available with unlimited access, all the time, from any device with an internet connection. www.tumblebookcloud.com Username: sdms Password: lions

  7. Or choose a great author… Allende, Avi, Christopher, Clancy, Cooney, Crutcher, Cushman, DeFelice, Dessen, Draper, Duncan, Fleischman, Flake, Fox, Grisham, Hesse, Hobbs, Lipsyte, Lupica, Myers, Park, Paterson, Philbrick, Reeve, Rinaldi, Riordan, Sacher, Shusterman, Soto, Speare, Spinelli, Strasser, Taylor, Tolkien, Wells, Yolen, Yep, Zindel…

  8. How do I select a great book? Favorite Author? Subject of last book you read and liked? Do you prefer fast plot or strong characters? Genre of Last Movie you saw? Fiction or Nonfiction?

  9. Ask a friend Find Books you love. Ask a teacher who knows you well. Look at book lists online. Ask a librarian If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

  10. Teen Nutmegs 2014

  11. 2013 Teen Nutmeg Nominees

  12. True stories She Said Yes voki

  13. Classics

  14. Historical Fiction

  15. Teen Stuff Dairy Queen voki

  16. Other worlds/fantasy/science fiction

  17. Survival/Adventure

  18. Mystery/Suspense/Spies Full Tilt voki

  19. Sports Heat voki

  20. Graphic Novels

  21. Short Stories

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