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June 11, 2012 by Mary Ann Cappiello

Summer Reading 2012

June 11, 2012 by Mary Ann Cappiello   2 comments

Wilson Pond, Maine, © Mary Ann Cappiello

As you scramble to finish up the school year, complete grading, pack-up your classroom and say goodbye to your students, we thought you might want to share the following resources with your students and their parents.

The Classroom Bookshelf will be taking a summer vacation, returning on Monday, August 27th, in time for school to start in our neck of the woods. During this time, we would really love to hear from you. If you have used teaching ideas from our blog in your classroom, how did it go? How did your students respond? What books or teaching activities were real standouts to you? Please feel free to comment on any of the entries, email us, and share your stories. You can email one or all three of us. No story or classroom anecdote is too small!

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Mary Ann Cappiello mcappiel@lesley.edu
Erika Thulin Dawes ethulind@lesley.edu
Grace Enriquez genrique@lesley.edu

2012 Summer Readings Lists 

The Horn Book Summer Reading Recommendations
http://www.hbook.com/2012/05/choosing-books/recommended-books/summer-reading-recommendations

Children’s Choices (International Reading Association)
http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Awards/ChildrensChoices2012_web.pdf

Teachers’ Choices (International Reading Association)
http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Awards/TeachersChoices2012_web.pdf

Teen Reads (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154425745/books-for-you-and-your-bff-summers-teen-reads

PBS Parents Summer Reading Challenge 2012

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/read

Scholastic Summer Reading 2012
http://www.scholastic.com/summer

New York Public Library Summer Reading Resources (Useful no matter where you live!)
http://www.summerreadingnys.org

Audio Books for Families 

We love audio books for long car rides with the family. Many public libraries now have downloadable audio books that you can listen to on an MP3 player, iPad, or iPod. Check in with your local public library and share the details with parents and students before the year is over. You might want to search for some of the books included in these lists below.

The Audies Awards 2012 (Audio Book Awards)
http://www.theaudies.com

2012 Notable Children’s Recordings (American Library Association)
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/alsc-names-2012-notable-children-s-recordings

2012 Notable Young Adult Recordings (American Library Association)
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/yalsa-names-2012-amazing-audiobooks-young-adults

Audio Books (Listening Library/Random House)
http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/listeninglibrary

Resources for Teachers/Parents

Literacy Tips for Parents (Reading Rockets)
http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents

Summer Reading Loss (Reading Rockets)
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/15218/#literacy

American Library Association Great Websites for Kids
http://gws.ala.org

The Cooperative Center for Books for Children Bibliographies
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/bibBio.asp

50 Bilingual Spanish/English Integrated Books (CCBC)
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=102

International Children’s Digital Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org
Free digital PDFs of children’s picture books from around the globe in their original language. There is an iPad app that allows for easy viewing on your iPad.

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About Mary Ann Cappiello

Mary Ann is a professor of language and literacy at Lesley University. A former public school language arts and humanities teacher, she is a passionate advocate for and commentator on children’s books. Mary Ann is the co-author of Teaching with Text Sets (2013) and Teaching to Complexity (2015) and Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy (Stenhouse, 2021). She has been a guest on public radio and a consultant to public television. From 2015-2018, Mary Ann was a member of the National Council of Teachers of English's Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction (K-8) Committee, serving two years as chair.

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  1. Gary says

    June 30, 2012 at 1:38 am

    Wow! I just discovered your blog doing a search for A Ball For Daisy and I love it! (I realize this comment reads like spam but it isn't 🙂 I teach kindergarten and first grade and look forward to reading your posts over the summer.

    Thanks,

    Gary

  2. bookwormfever says

    July 19, 2012 at 10:17 pm

    This is great! I will check out the audiobooks that you have for our family road trip. Just the other day we were wondering where we could find good audiobooks, and now we have some! Thank you so much!

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