Summer Reading
RCSD will not have a required Summer Reading this summer due to the COVID-19 challenges everyone has encountered. The RCSD Elementary Curriculum Department STRONGLY encourages ALL Elementary School students to continue reading during the months of June and July.
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Entering Kindergarten |
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Frog and Toad are Friends |
Arnold Lobel |
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The Boy Who Loved Words |
Roni Schotter |
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Goodnight Moon |
Margaret Wise Brown |
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There is a Bird on Your Head! |
Mo Willems |
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Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach |
James Dean |
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Biscuit Goes Camping |
Alyssa Satin Capucilli |
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Corduroy |
Don Freeman |
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Entering First Grade |
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? |
Bill Martin |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
Laura Joffe Numeroff |
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Grow Up, David! |
David Shannon |
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I Love Rocks |
Cari Meister |
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The Day the Crayons Quit |
Drew Daywalt |
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Swimmy |
Leo Lionni |
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If You Take a Mouse to School |
Laura Numeroff |
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Entering Second Grade |
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Encyclopedia Brown |
Donald J. Sobal |
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Cam Jansen series |
David A. Adler |
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Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book Series) |
Peggy Parish |
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Flat Stanley |
Jeff Brown |
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Second Grade Rules |
Abby Klein |
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Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy, Junie B. Jones Series #12 |
Barbara Park |
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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse |
Kevin Henkes |
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Entering Second Grade |
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Encyclopedia Brown |
Donald J. Sobal |
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Cam Jansen series |
David A. Adler |
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Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book Series) |
Peggy Parish |
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Flat Stanley |
Jeff Brown |
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Second Grade Rules |
Abby Klein |
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Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy, Junie B. Jones Series #12 |
Barbara Park |
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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse |
Kevin Henkes |
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Entering Third Grade |
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Amos and Boris |
William Steig |
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Judy Blume books (Fudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing) |
Judy Blume |
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Judy Moody series |
Megan McDonald |
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A to Z Mysteries |
Ron Roy |
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The Chocolate Touch |
Patrick Skene Catling |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Roald Dahl |
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Third Grade Angels |
Jerry Spinelli |
| Entering Fourth Grade | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events books |
Lemony Snicket |
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Because of Winn-Dixie |
Kate DiCamillo |
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Clementine |
Sara Pennypacker |
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Tiger Rising |
Kate DiCamillo |
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Cricket in Times Square |
George Selden |
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I Survived (Series) |
Lauren Tarshis |
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The Indian in the Cupboard |
Lynne Reid Banks |
| Entering Fifth Grade | |
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The Sign of the Beaver |
Elizabeth George Speare |
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Frindle |
Andrew Clements |
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Hatchet |
Gary Paulsen |
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The Secret Garden |
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins |
Scott O'Dell |
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Harriet the Spy |
Louise Fitzhugh |
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Summer of the Swans |
Betsey Byars |
| Entering Sixth Grade | |
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Bridge to Terabithia |
Katherine Paterson |
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Maniac Magee |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Wringer |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Wonder |
R. J. Palacio |
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Smile |
Raina Telgemeier |
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Ella Enchanted |
Gail Carson Levine |
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Hoot |
Carl Hiaasen |