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Join the Summer Reading Fun - With Recommendations For And From Our Students!

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Themes, Activities, Ideas, Books

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Summer Reading Lists

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As the leading advocate of family literacy and reading aloud in Hong Kong, Bring Me A Book™ is often asked by parents, "What are the best books to read to my children?"

Our recommended Summer Reading list comprise of new titles for 7 years+, 10 years+ Aspiring and Avid readers, Non-fiction, Graphic Novels, and Stories in Verse. Please click here to download.

A Guide to the Best Chinese Books for Children 2016 is the fourth edition since 2008. The booklist is categorized by theme and age to match the child's interest, language ability and developmental needs. Books that have been honored with the internationally recognized Feng Zikai Chinese Children's Picture Book Award (started by the Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation and Bring Me a Book™ Hong Kong in 2009) are also highlighted in the guide.

We are pleased to share with you our Chinese and English booklists to help guide parents and teachers towards selecting the best books for their children - ones that will pique a child's interest and nurture a life-long of reading. Both guides are the result of a labour of love by dedicated educational and literacy specialists, parents and librarians who have volunteered their time expertise to compile these valuable resources.

"The Read-Aloud Collection" is a compilation of the best children's books in English for reading aloud, from birth to teenage years. Reading together is an activity to be enjoyed as soon as children are born, and certainly should not end when they become independent readers. The collection is divided into three main age groups. In "The First 100 Books", we have selected quality read-aloud books for babies and toddlers that can be enjoyed over and over. If your child has a particular area of interest, or you have life lessons you wish to impart, then look no further than our thematic guide, "Picture Books to Share". For older children, we suggest "Chapter Books to Share", and provide the ISBN for large-format, illustrated, read-aloud versions of these classic and contemporary stories.

To request a downloadable version, please email us at info@bringmeabook.org.hk to sign up to our newsletter and receive your downloadable Read-Aloud Collection.

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Recommended Booklists - Bring Me A Book Hong Kong

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As the leading advocate of family literacy and reading aloud in Hong Kong, Bring Me A Book™ is often asked by parents, "What are the best books to read to my children?" Our recommended Summer Reading list comprise of new titles for 7 years+, 10 years+ Aspiring and Avid readers, Non-fiction, Graphic Novels, and Stories ...

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Summer Reading Resources

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10 Weeks of Summer Reading Adventures for You and Your Kids

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It’s not hard to help your children keep their interest in reading and learning during the summer break. Here are ten weeks of suggestions to encourage your children to open books even after school doors close.

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One of my favorite blogs to follow, with wonderful resources related to reading

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School's out for summer, which means the summer reading fun is about to begin! With no homework or packed schedules to worry about, those long, lazy days of summer are the perfect time for kicking back with a good book.

Because summer reading can be both fun and educational, we've compiled everything you need to help kids read and learn over the summer months. Download our Summer Reading Bingo Card for a fun, enriching reading experience that encourages kids to expand their reading horizons, and use our book recommendation lists to fulfill each prompt. Plus, find tips on stopping the summer slide, print out activities to keep kids entertained, explore funny audiobooks for families on the go, and so much more!

SUMMER READING LISTS FOR ALL AGES

SUMMER LEARNING

SUMMER FUN

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Summer Reading: Book Lists and Tips for Every Age | Brightly

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School's out for summer, which means the summer reading fun is about to begin! With no homework or packed schedules to worry about, those long, lazy days of summer are the perfect time for kicking back with a good book.

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The grade-level boundaries are meant to be broad and mainly geared towards interest and not reading level since reading levels vary within grade-levels, as each reader develops at his/her own pace. Please keep in mind that books can be enjoyed in various ways, depending on the reader’s developmental stage and preferences, e.g. reading independently, parent and child sharing the reading, listening to someone reading the book out loud, listening to an audio book etc.

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The grade-level boundaries are meant to be broad and mainly geared towards interest and not reading level since reading levels vary within grade-levels, as each reader develops at his/her own pace. Please keep in mind that books can be enjoyed in various ways, depending on the reader’s developmental stage and preferences, e.g. reading independently, parent and child sharing the reading, listening to someone reading the book out loud, listening to an audio book etc.

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https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4120311-tanja?shelf=read&utm_medium=api&utm_source=grid_widget

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As the school year is nearing its end and I am beginning to reflect with students about the past year and where it has taken them on their reading journey, I am reminded what an amazing community of readers we are here at HKA. I see this in the morning as the library is packed with students who could be outside on the playground but instead choose to be in the library; I see it during class visits when students are enjoying read-alouds, excitedly talking about the stories; I see it during check out times when students enthusiastically recommend books to each other and ask for recommendations; I see it in the large number of students who have been on the B.o.B. team, attending weekly meetings throughout the year (nearly 40% of all grade 4 and 5 students) and the even larger number of students who are now talking about participating next year. There is a wonderful momentum going that gets also students onboard who did not yet consider themselves readers; suddenly they turn up in the library in the morning, they are seen leaving the library with their nose in a book, with a big smile on their face they raise their hand when I ask about B.o.B. participation for next year - beautiful!

Let's make sure that we keep this momentum going during the upcoming break, not just to ensure that our young readers don't loose any of the reading skills they acquired this year (research has clearly shown that the loss in skills is considerable if reading is neglected over the summer), but even more to keep kindling and nurturing their love for reading, to create special memories through shared books. For this purpose, just like in the past years, I will put together a summer reading package, which will include ideas for activities around reading as well as title suggestions. You will be able to download the entire package during the last week of school or follow the program through weekly updates on this blog.

While you can support your child in many ways to continue reading over the summer (and I will share more about this in the upcoming blog posts), the single most decisive factor how successful your child will be in continuing to read is choice. Nothing motivates readers of any age more than being in control of and having a say in what to read. Of course, we - teachers, librarians, parents - can make suggestions, show our young readers all that is available out there, get them excited about the books we love, but ultimately, we need to let them choose (keeping an eye though on content to ensure it is developmentally appropriate); otherwise reading is downgraded to a mere task.

We want to take advantage of the summer as a time to further celebrate reading, to show our children why we value it, by enjoying special stories together, by making them part of an unforgettable time together.

(Check in on this blog for more summer reading ideas every Monday, all the way through to August.)

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As the school year is nearing its end and I am beginning to reflect with students about the past year and where it has taken them on their reading journey, I am reminded what an amazing community of readers we are here at HKA.

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In my post last Monday, the first in preparing for summer reading (in case you missed it, please click on this link), I stressed how important it is that ultimately we let our children choose what they want to read, while making suggestions and offering some guidance. Another decisive factor in successfully nurturing young readers and instilling a love for lifelong reading in them is the presence of reading role models in their lives. Our children need to see us read, need to hear us talk about books, recommend books, continuously show them that reading is something we enjoy and value. With "us", I mean all of us grown ups: teachers, librarians, parents, and other family members. The more they see us enjoy and value reading, the more likely they are to pick up a book and read as well.

Here are a few tips from the (Text source: Scholastic Inc. (2007). Be a Reading Role Model. Reading Rocket website (compiled by Scholastic) how you can be a reading role model to your child:

Surround yourself with reading materials

Draw attention to all things you read

Buy or borrow books together

Don't be a solo reader

Read for leisure

Bring something to read wherever you go

Emphasize the universal importance of reading

www.scholastic.com.)
And if you are not sure what you might like to read this summer, here are just a few ideas to get you started - some titles I have enjoyed reading, some of newer, some of older publication date. I have tried to include a mix of different genres and since I also believe that no one is ever too old to read children's and young adult literature, I have included some suggestions from these categories too. (I have embedded links to Goodreads in each of the titles if you would like to know more about the books.)

​"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift." - Kate DiCamillo

(A special THANK YOU to my brother, nephew and niece for sending me the pictures for this post.)

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In my post last Monday, the first in preparing for summer reading (in case you missed it, please click on this link), I stressed how important it is that ultimately we let our children choose what they want to read, while making suggestions and offering some guidance.

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Whenever the topic of summer reading comes up - among librarians, teachers, and parents - it seems that our concern over how we keep our children reading to maintain important skills over the...

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Check out reading recommendations for and from our EC students in PK1-K
https://padlet.com/buchwurm_tanja/pk1_ksummer

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Check out reading recommendations for and from our first & second graders
https://padlet.com/buchwurm_tanja/g1_2summer

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Check out reading recommendations for and from our third  & fourth graders
https://padlet.com/buchwurm_tanja/g3_4summer

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Check out reading recommendations for and from our fifth graders
https://padlet.com/buchwurm_tanja/summerg5

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Follow our summer reading program through the Primary Library blog. Weekly updates will be posted throughout the break.
http://specialists.hkacademy.edu.hk/library1

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http://primary.hkacademy.edu.hk

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This is "Happy Summer Reading 2017" by tgaletti on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.