Summer Reading List 2024-2025
At Hope Lutheran School, we value reading, and reading every day during the summer is important. Students at each grade level (1st – 8th grade) are REQUIRED to read books by August 15, 2024.
GOING INTO First Grade
REQUIRED Reading (write a sentence and draw a picture about what happened in each story):
Pete the Cat Too Cool for School by Kimberly and James Dean
Drop It, Rocket by Tad Hills
Write a Sentence and draw a picture about what happened in each of the Required Reading selections. PLUS read 1 book per week from the recommended list.
Recommended (choose at least 1 book per week):
“Clifford” books by Norman Bridwell
“Biscuit” books by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
“Little Critter” books by Mercer Mayer
Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton (any in the series)
Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale (any in the series)
Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin (any in series)
Bear’s Loose Tooth by Karma Wilson (or any others in the series)
If you Give a… books by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Franklin books (any in series) by Paulette Bourgeois
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (or any others in the series)
Danny and the Dinosaur By Syd Hoff
Curious George (various titles) by H.A. Rey
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastmann
Little Bear by Elsa Minarik
Frog and Toad (any in series) by Arnold Lobel
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Amelia Bedelia (any in series) by Peggy Parish
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
The Pigeon Has to Go to School by Mo Willems
“Elephant and Piggie” books by Mo Willems
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
HAVE A BLESSED AND SAFE SUMMER!