Dear Families and Friends of our Island Avenue School Community,

The summer is finally here! That means time for playing, relaxing and of course reading and writing. To help you with the playing and reading part of your summer I’ve put together several links to great sites just for you. Take a stroll through the sites and enjoy your summer.

Have fun!

Mrs. Shirley
Reading Consultant
Island Avenue School

• Our own Madison Public School’s Summer Reading List
• Connecticut’s idea page for having a splashy reading summer!
• A website full of book suggestions for boys of all ages! (Girls may like some of these, too!)
• Download Reading Is Fundamental’s monthly activity calendars, which provide engaging reading and writing activity suggestions to last a month!
• Wonderful educational activities and games such as Math Baseball, Grammar Gorillas, Scramble-Saurus, Connect the Dot and many, many more. This site from the Learning Network is well worth exploring.
• Starfall is a free, creative website designed to teach children to read. Primarily designed for first grade, it is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade
• Like MadLibs ©, these Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above
• On this web site you click on a poetry kit and it brings up a Refrigerator and over 100 different magnet words that the students will use to create a magnetic poem, sentence, or story! The student can also submit their work or look at some of the already submitted examples
• This site has over 1,500 links to educational games, divided up into subject categories. Most games are geared to elementary and middle school age levels
• This is a site for puzzle lovers that features a wide variety of free, interactive word puzzles, games, brainteasers, anagrams and more for ages 8 through adult

Roxy says, “Boys and girls, practice your reading this summer so you can read to me when you return to school.”