Summer Reading

Primary

2025 Primary Summer Reading

Summer is almost here! Please continue reading with your child over the summer. If your child is reading already, click here for a list of Level B and Level C books that you can check out from the library this summer. The Charleston County Library has an AMAZING summer reading program where children can earn prizes for reading! Click here to check it out.

Also, click here and here for two sight word lists. Practice 5 at a time with your child nightly until they have mastered them. If your child is not reading yet, use fun games to practice letter names and sounds and read to him/her daily. The benefits of summer reading are immeasurable!

Lastly, for 3K and 4K friends, you can click here for some other resources for fun learning activities at home!

Lower Elementary

Upper Elementary

Rising 6th Grade

Rising 7th & 8th Grade

Students will read 2 books over the summer from the Approved Book List.

One should be a Memoir/Nonfiction*.

One should be a Coming-of-Age Novel.

Students will complete 4 written responses total (2 per book), choosing from creative options like a letter to the author, text message convo with a character, or a thematic playlist. All details are in the student packet below.

All work must be original (no summaries or AI use)—we want their own thinking and voices.

Due the 2nd day of school—Wednesday, August 13

*If it says “Young Reader’s Edition” in our list, please make sure you order/buy/rent this version.

Student Packet

Approved Books

Rubric

Exemplars

Overview & Rationale for Summer Reading:
AI/Plagiarism

Overview & Rationale for Summer Reading:

This summer’s reading project aligns with our upcoming year-long thematic focus on the Individual, celebrating stories of personal growth, self-discovery, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Reading during the summer is essential for preventing the "summer slide" and nurturing a lifelong love of learning and reading. By engaging with TWO of the types of books below, you’ll peek into the windows of other lives and prepare for our yearlong study of the Individual in literature and history.

AI/Plagiarism

Using any tool or other person’s work and passing it off as your own robs you of your own thinking and learning. We have carefully constructed this project to be meaningful to your upcoming school year, and not doing the work will not set you up for success with your first grade, your first interactions with peers in ELA class, and your first Seminar. Imagine there’s a really cool new movie in theaters, but instead of going to see it you send someone else and ask them to give you a summary. Is that the same as having seen the movie, scene-by-scene, yourself? Do you end up with the same experience?

If we detect any amount of AI was used to write about or substitute reading the books, you will need to redo the entire project with 2 entirely new books. Don’t risk it.

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