The Linda S. Maloof Media Center
Nathan Hale School
Northvale, NJ
Northvale Public Schools
Nathan Hale School
Grade 5
Required Summer Reading - 2009
Over the summer, all children should be reading regularly for pleasure and to enhance their reading skills. The Northvale School District has a required summer-reading program that provides many choices of titles and authors and a follow-up activity to be completed and brought to school in September. The books are available through the Bergen County Public Library System and may be purchased online or at bookstores. The Northvale Public Library has the K - 8 summer reading lists with assignments and attempts to accommodate book requests.
Grade 5 Assignment: Select one book to read. Complete the following information using the computer or it may be handwritten.
1. Title, Author, Setting, Main Characters
2. Choose five vocabulary words that were new to you and define them.
3. Choose five adjectives to describe the story. Explain why you chose those words. Please write in complete sentences.
4. Create a new title for the book.
5. Write your opinion of the story. Give three examples from the story to support your opinion.
Author Title
Balliett, Blue Chasing Vermeer
Banks, Lynne Reid Indian in the Cupboard (or any title in series)
Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan
Clements, Andrew Frindle
DeClements, Barthe Nothing’s Fair in the Fifth Grade
DiCamillo, Kate The Miraculous Adventure of Edward Tulane
Gutman, Dan Baseball Card Adventure (any title in series)
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh (or any title in the series)
O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Snicket, Lemony A Series of Unfortunate Events (any title in series)
Steig, William Abel’s Island
Various Authors Dear America or My Name Is America
(any title in series)
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