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Let Reading Take You Places!!

2009 Required Summer Reading       Incoming Sixth Graders      Humanities ( Choose One )           The Maldonado Miracle    by Theodore Taylor           A Step From Heaven          by An Na           Language A ( Choose One)                   Peter and the Starcatchers        by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson                   Dragonwings                               by Laurence Yep         Incoming Seventh Graders     Humanities  ( Choose One )                   A Girl Named Disaster               by Nancy Farmer                   A Single Shard                            by Linda Sue Park          Language A  ( Choose One )                  Child of the Owl                             by Laurence Yep                   Tex                                                 by S.E. Hinton         Incoming Eighth Graders          Humanities ( Choose One )                   The King of Mulberry Street         by Donna Jo Napoli                   The Witch of Blackbird Pond       by Elizabeth George Spears           Language A ( Choose One )                                  Slam!                                              by Walter Dean Myers                    Ties that bind, Ties that Break     by Lensey Namioka            Language A - GIFTED  ( REQUIRED READING )           19 Varieties of Gazelle:  Poems of the Middle East  by Naomi Shihab Nye            Summer 2009 Suggested Reading List

Interested in reading some more now that you have completed your required reading? 

Click on the link below for some suggestions

http://briefings.dadeschools.net/files/94356_Summer_2009_Reading_List.doc

Research studies show that

Education and reading are circular – the more a person has of one, the

better the development of the other.

In fact, the benefits of reading for pleasure are positively linked with the following literacy-related benefits:

• Improved reading and writing ability 
• Improved reading comprehension and grammar
• Increased vocabulary 
• Positive reading attitudes which are linked to achievement in reading       
• Greater self-confidence as a reader
• Promotes fluency, vocabulary, and background knowledge.”

 

 

There is also evidence that reading for pleasure not only impacts on reading achievement but also increases:

 

• general knowledge
• a better understanding of other cultures
• community participation
• a greater insight into human nature and decision-making

 

So find a book you'd like to read and watch the world open up for you as your mind expands!!

Happy Reading!!

 

Reference: 

www.literacytrust.org.uk/research/Reading%20for%20pleasure.pdf

 

 

 

 

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Miami-Dade County Public School
Herbert A. Ammons Middle School
17990 SW 142nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33177

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