Student Resources

Language Arts:

All Team 7 students should practice the following skills:

• Reading: Read at least 30 minutes per day.
• Writing: Write a letter, journal or some type of response.
  • Write letters to friends, teachers, or your principal.
  • Keep a journal. Write to express your feelings or opinions. Write about the things you do during the summer
  • Write about something you saw on TV or in the news.
  • Each of your writings should be at least a paragraph long. Practice using spell check and grammar check.

Recommended books:

• Tangerine - Edward Bloor
• The Skin Lake - G. Sharon
• Loser - Jerry Spinelli
• Petey - Ben Mikaelsen
• No More Dead Dogs - Gordon Korman
• The Acorn People - Ron Jones

Recommended authors:

• Janet S. Anderson
• Cornelia Funke
• Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew)
• Ben Mikaelsen
• Gary Paulsen
• Rodman Philbrick
• Ann Rinaldi

More recommendations for summer reading:

• Beyond the Burning Time - Kathryn Lasky
• Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
• The Maze - Will Hobbs
• Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
• River Thunder - Will Hobbs
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Absolutely Normal Chaos - Sharon Creech
• Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech
• The Watson’s Go To Birmingham - Christopher Paul Curtis
• A View from Saturday - E.C. Konigsburg
• Where the Lilies Bloom - Vera Cleaver
• Wanderer - Sharon Creech
• Holes - Louis Sachar
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
• Dicey’s Song - Cynthia Voight
• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Eleanor Coerr
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - Bruce Coville
• Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C. O’Brien
• Hatchet (and others by Paulsen) - Gary Paulsen
• Summer Reading is Killing Me! - John Scieszka
• Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
• Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt
• Fudge-A-Mania - Judy Blume
• George’s Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl
• The Dragonling - Jackie French Koller
• Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• How To Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell
• Matilda - Roald Dahl
• A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
• Where The Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
• Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
• Summerland - Michael Chabon
• Joey Pigza Series - Jack Gantos
• Houdini - Clinton Cox
• The Birchbark House - Louise Erdrich
• Pictures of Hollis Wood - Patricia Reilly Giff
• Babe & Me: A Baseball Card - Dan Gutman
• Adventure Shoeless Shoe & Me - Dan Gutman
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
• Dear America/My Name is - various authors
• My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
• The Cay - Theodore Taylor
• On My Honor - Marion Dane Bauer
• Missing May - Cynthia Rylant
• The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
• Sammy Keyes Mysteries - Wendlin Van Draanen
• Catharine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman
• Myst, The Book of Atrus - R. Miller, R. Miller, D. Wingrove
• Redwall - Brian Jacques
• River Thunder - Will Hobbs
• Where the Lilies Bloom - Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver
• Just Juice - Karen Hesse
• Baby - Patricia MacLachlan
• The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
• Sing Down The Moon - Scott O’Dell
• Echohawk - Lynda Durant
• The Good Fight: How WWII Was Won - Stephen E. Ambrose
• Things Not Seen - Andrew Clements
• Granny Tortelli Makes Soup - Sharon Creech
• The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke

Math: 7th Period and 8th Period

Students in Period 7 or 8 Math should practice the following skills:

• Writing large numbers that someone says to you (such as 32,064,005)
• Math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Solving large addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
• Fractions
• Time & Money

Math: 3rd Period and 5th Period

Students in Period 3 or 5 Math should practice the following skills:

• Math Facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Long multiplication and division problems
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Percents
• Ratios & Proportions