Parents and caregivers can support their children at home by reading grade-level appropriate books and downloading the corresponding literacy skill-building worksheets.

Check out any of the books listed from your local library. Many libraries also have digital copies of the titles. You can also purchase the books from our Bookshop page.

Choose your grade level: K-1 | 2-3 | 4-5

Grades K-1

Kindergarten-first grade literacy resources

Reading Log	BINGO	Reading report (fiction)	Reading report (nonfiction)

• Track books you read in a summer reading Book Log
• Play Reading BINGO! 
• Complete Book Reports after reading 

Kindergarten-first grade books

• Hair Love, Matthew Cherry
• My Friend Earth, Patricia MacLachlan, Francesca Sanna
• Planting a Rainbow, Louis Ehlert
• Standing On Her Shoulders, Monica Clark-Robinson
• Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Joyce Sidman
• The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
• The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng, Sophia Golz
• The Very Impatient Caterpillar, Ross Burach
• They All Saw a Cat, Brendan Wenzel

Grades 2-3

Second-third grade literacy resources

Reading Log	BINGO	Reading report (fiction)	Reading report (nonfiction)

• Track books you read in a summer reading Book Log
• Play Reading BINGO! 
• Complete Book Reports after reading 

Second-third grade books

• Actual Size, Steve Jenkins
• Finding Winnie, Lindsay Mattick
• I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, Debbie Levy
• My Papi Has a Motorcycle, Isabel Quintero
• Pretty Tricky: The Sneaky Ways Plants Survive, Etta Kaner
• The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family, Ibtihaj Muhammad
• The Upside Down Boy, Juan Felipe Herrera
• The Wolves are Back, Jean Craighead George
• Your Name Is a Song, Jamilah Thompkins- Bigelow

Grades 4-5

Fourth-fifth grade literacy resources

Reading Log	BINGO	Reading report (fiction)	Reading report (nonfiction)

• Track books you read in a summer reading Book Log
• Play Reading BINGO! 
• Complete Book Reports after reading 

Fourth-fifth grade books

• Wish, Barbara O’Connor
• The Circulatory Story, Mary K. Corcoran
• Mananaland, Pam Munoz Ryan
• Sitting Bull, Harry N. Abrams
• Through my Eyes, Ruby Bridges
• The Screaming Hairy Armadillo, Matthew Murrie
• Restart, Gordon Korman
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin
• The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, Lamar Giles

Additional book reports are available to download from our Resource Library. 

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