Pls recommend summer reading materials or workbooks for my soon to be 1st grader (for summer)

[Anonymous]

I work for MCPS and will be off this summer. I don't plan to send my kid to camp and we also have some travel plans. She can read a little but I am guessing mostly from memorization. Please recommend some materials/workbooks/books that I can work on with her this summer? I don't want it to be all fun and she's not ready for first grade this fall. Thanks in advance! I have gotten Brainquest in the past but she's not super engaged with those.

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

If teaching her how to read is the goal, I would recommend All About Reading. It’s a homeschool curriculum but I have used it with my children because they needed phonics instruction and it really made a difference. It seems really onerous at first, but it is not. Plan on spending 20 - 30 minutes a day on it.

[Anonymous]

Summer Brain Quest are really good workbooks - my kids like working through them and earning the rewards stickers on the map.

[Anonymous]

I use this from a girls’ school in Cleveland that my friend’s kids attend- not sure why the link isn’t directly from the school but it’s great for all grade levels:

http://www.slavchevmusic.com/summer-reading.html#

Also recommend working on the basics of school so your child feels confident in other areas if they’re struggling with certain academic areas. Don’t discount social skills and life skills as a way to build confidence and success in school and try this list:

-can tie a shoe
-can read a map and understands cardinal directions
-understands the calendar and dates
-has clear, legible handwriting and can express thoughts in writing (this came before reading for my child)
-can organize a folder, fill a backpack, zip it tidily, and hang it up
-can eat a packed lunch or hot meal without help
-can tell time on an analog clock and can follow and anticipate a schedule
-can do the monkey bars (this is arbitrary but happened to be a certain path to admiration and social success in the fall at my kid’s school)

Kids with the above skills will receive more patient attention and academic instruction from teachers than kids who are trailing shoelaces, whining for backpack help, and writing messily. It isn’t fair but it’s true. It will also set them up for later success in elementary school and build a strong base of executive functioning skills.

[Anonymous]

Oh sorry I missed that you want her to learn to read -- Teach Your Child How to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is great.

[Anonymous]

My kids did like the Brainquest summer books but they thought the Highlights Summer Fun books were better. They also have separate reading or writing ones.

[Anonymous]

Just take her to the library and let her pick books? I don’t think kids that age need workbooks.

[Anonymous]

When I was homeschooling last year due to covid, we were able to find student editions of the Eureka math books MCPS uses.

Here's the one for Module 1
https://a.co/d/1pSLIko

We also looked for the I Can Read books.

This is a good reading workbook for the summer prior to 1st grade although it was a bit easy for my child:
Sylvan Summer Smart Workbook: Between Grades K & https://a.co/d/agbm0Xg

For the school year we ended up using the Spectrum Reading and Writing workbooks for 1st grade.

[Anonymous]

This is too early for workbooks. Just do a lot of fun reading and regular library trips

[Anonymous]

https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Brain-Quest-Between-Grades/dp/0761189165/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=brain+quest+summer+1-2&qid=1654266784&sprefix=brain+quest+summer%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-4

We used the Summer Brain Quest books. DS liked the stickers and game element to it. It reviewed what they learned in K in a fun way. He would do 2 pages a day to earn screen time. It wasn't a big deal but it gave him something to do that kept what he had worked on fresh. Most days he would do more then 2 pages because he was enjoying himself.

He is older now, finishing 4th, and we are not planning on doing anything like that but he does read and he enjoys playing with math.

[Anonymous]

My daughter enjoyed the Highlights Summer Big Fun Workbook(s) in the past

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is too early for workbooks. Just do a lot of fun reading and regular library trips

OP here. This was what we were doing all through preschool and was told the kid would pick it up. Well, nope. She has been read to since she was 1 year old, and she loves book, but I can't read anything beyond a Bob book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was homeschooling last year due to covid, we were able to find student editions of the Eureka math books MCPS uses.

Here's the one for Module 1
https://a.co/d/1pSLIko

We also looked for the I Can Read books.

This is a good reading workbook for the summer prior to 1st grade although it was a bit easy for my child:
Sylvan Summer Smart Workbook: Between Grades K & https://a.co/d/agbm0Xg

For the school year we ended up using the Spectrum Reading and Writing workbooks for 1st grade.

Thank you for all the suggestions and links. How does the student edition of Eureka math book differs from the one MCPS provides?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is too early for workbooks. Just do a lot of fun reading and regular library trips

OP here. This was what we were doing all through preschool and was told the kid would pick it up. Well, nope. She has been read to since she was 1 year old, and she loves book, but I can't read anything beyond a Bob book.

It's within the range of normal.

Unclench.

[Anonymous]

They are doing summer reading programs at the MCPL this summer.