Summer Reading Program
Millionaire Club
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The Millionaire Club is an effort to keep Houston ISD’s students reading over the summer months. If all students read five books this summer, HISD students will have read 1 million books!!
Why are we doing it?
Besides becoming better readers, students develop a love for reading, and the entire family can benefit by making reading a family activity. Reading over the summer is the best way to make sure that students enter school in the fall with reading skills at or above the level they were at before leaving for summer break. Students who can least afford to risk the gains made during the school year in the area of reading suffer the most from summer reading loss.
How does it work?
Students should select and read a minimum of 5 books over the summer months. We are suggesting two fiction books, two non-fiction books and one biography. However, any five books will work. They will complete the Reading Log which they will receive in a few days. In the fall, they will return the log in order to be eligible to receive prizes for participating in the Millionaire Club. Suggested Reading Lists are being sent home in today’s Tuesday folder: (K-2, the Caldecott Medal winners and the TLA 2 X 2 List and 3 – 5, the Newberry Medal Winners and the TLA’s Bluebonnet List). The HISD Name That Books lists will be available on-line at HISD’s Library Services website,
http://www.hisdlibraryservices.org/Namethatbookmenu.htm .
Links to other reading lists may be found below...
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