Middle School - Upper Perkiomen School District

Summer Reading

Summer Reading

The Middle School English Language Arts teachers have prepared our Summer Reading packets and they are attached below for each grade level. Reading is a lifelong skill and research shows that adult readers establish their reading habits most strongly during their middle school years. Summer reading is a crucial component of the ELA curriculum and helps children maintain the progress they made during the school year. Please read over the packets attached below based upon the grade your child will be enrolled in for the upcoming school year. If you have any questions, please ask your child's current ELA teacher or contact the UPMS Office. Happy Reading!

Summer Reading Letters

6th Grade

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Dear Parents/Guardians and Students,

Reading is a lifelong skill, and research shows that adult readers establish their reading habits most strongly during their middle school years. Additionally, any progress made during the regular school year is maintained when students read over the summer. Therefore, summer reading is a crucial component of the sixth grade curriculum.

Summer reading also allows students to prepare for the Accelerated Reader (AR) program that the middle school students will be required to utilize. The AR program provides students personalized reading practice by taking quizzes based on self-selected novels. Students earn points depending upon how many questions they answer correctly on the computer-based quiz. The number of points that a book is worth varies depending upon the length of the book and the book level. Summer reading will count towards the first trimester AR goal to help students get off to a positive start to the school year. With this philosophy in mind, we would like to share with you the summer reading requirements for students who will enter the upcoming school year as 6th graders.

In order to complete the summer reading assignment please do the following:

Choose a book from the list of titles that the 6th grade teachers provided for you. Short summaries are provided to help you make a selection that truly interests you! Remember stick with the book! A copy of the book list may be found on the Middle School Website.
As you read, complete a Summer Reading Log for this novel. Summer Reading Logs may be found on the Middle School Website. Students were also given a log at the close of their 5th Grade year. Give a short summary of what you read during each reading session. This will be turned in the first week of school for a grade.
Also, within the first two weeks of school, you will discuss the summer reading and take an AR test on your book. The scores on these AR tests will count as a summer reading grade for the first trimester.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy a good book this summer! See you in the fall!

Sincerely,

The Sixth Grade ELA Department

Mr. Dulin

Mrs. Fluke

Mrs. Miller

Mrs. Rambo

Upcoming 6th Grade Summer Reading List
Summer Reading Log

Upcoming 6th Grade Summer Reading List

Summer Reading Log

7th Grade

Dear Parents/Guardians and Students,

Reading is a lifelong skill, and research shows that adult readers establish their reading habits most strongly during their middle school years. Additionally, any progress made during the regular school year is maintained when students read over the summer. With this philosophy in mind, we would like to share with you the requirements for summer reading for students who will enter 7th grade for the upcoming school year.

The 7th grade English Language Arts teachers have compiled a list of titles for summer reading options. Students are to choose one of these titles to read over the summer.

Choose a book from the list provided below.
Click here to see a list of the books with online links
As you read, complete a Sticky Note Book Report about this novel. Directions for this assignment are on the back of this letter. You will submit this assignment on the first day of school.
Within the first two weeks of school, you will discuss summer reading and take an AR Test on your summer reading book. The scores on these AR Tests will count as a summer reading grade for the first marking period.
You will also complete a text-dependent analysis within the first two weeks of school. The TDA will require students to provide evidence from their summer reading book.

Historical Fiction

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

Fantasy

The Maze Runner (Book 1 of the series) by James Dashner (or any other book from the series)
The Capture (Book 1 of the series) by Kathryn Lasky (or any other book from the series)
Bad Magic (Book 1 of the series) by Pseudonymous Bosch (or any other book from the series)

Science Fiction

Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Cinder (Book 1 of The Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer (or any other book from the series)
Matched by Allie Condie (or any other book from the Matched Trilogy)

Sports

Any of the following Mike Lupica books:

QB 1
Summer Ball
The Batboy
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

Horror

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimen

Mystery

Any book from the following Margaret Peterson Haddix series:

The Shadow Children series
The Missing series
Children of Exile series
The Palace Chronicles series
Under Their Skin series

Any book from the following Stuart Gibbs series:

Spy School series
Belly Up series

General Interest

Any of the following Meg Cabot books:

How to Be Popular
Avalon High
Jinx

Any of the following James Patterson books:

Middle School: The Worst Years of my Life (or any other book from the series)
Any book from the Treasure Hunters series

The Sticky Note Book Report
Printable version of PDF Sticky Note Report

The Sticky Note Book Report

Click here for printable version of PDF Sticky Note Report

As you read your summer reading novel, you will note your metacognition (reading strategies) on sticky notes, thus creating a Sticky-Note Book Report which is due on the first day of the school year.

Supplies needed:

A copy of the novel you chose from the list
A pack of standard size sticky notes (any color; no designs because your writing will be difficult to read)
A PEN (blue or black ink only). Please do not use a pencil!
Several pieces of unlined 8 ½ x 11 paper (any color)

Procedure:

Write 18 sticky notes.
Use all SEVEN of the reading strategies.

Clarifying Confusion (CC)

Write down what you are wondering. PLEASE attempt to include the clarification to your confusion, especially if it is a vocabulary-level question.

Evaluation (E)

Write down what just happened AND include your emotional response. FOCUS ON IMPORTANT EVENTS.

Prediction (P)

Guess what will happen next in the story AND give evidence to support your prediction

Text-to-Self Connection (TS)

Compare a character or an event to yourself.

Text-to-Text Connection (TT)

Compare a character or an event to another text.

Text-to-World Connection (TW)

Compare a character or an event to what might be going on in the world.

Making Inferences (I)

Based on the author’s writing, what can be concluded, suggested, or implied; draw a conclusion based on reasoning- read between the lines.

3. Label your sticky notes with the DATE, the page number, and the type of reading strategy that you are using (CC, E, P, TS, TT, TW, I).

4. You must use each reading strategy at least twice. For the remaining four required sticky notes, you can choose the strategies you want to use.

5. When you have finished reading the book, create a title page (featuring the title and author) and place all sticky notes in order, by chapter, on 8 ½ x 11 paper. Clearly label each chapter at the top of a piece of paper.

Grading:

The project is worth 45 points. Each sticky note is worth two points. Your arrangement of notes on the labeled chapter pages is worth 9 points.

Example of one sticky note:

link to document to complete 7th Grade Summer Reading Assignment

Printable version of PDF Sticky Note Report

8th Grade

Supply Lists Grades 6-8

Supply Lists Grades 6-8

Mrs. Christine Siegfried
Principal

Mr. Brian Callan
Assistant Principal

Patricia Keller
Administrative Assistant

Kelly Shade
Administrative Assistant

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