Reading Connection

Last week for book checkout for most MCAS schools will be the week of 5/5 - 5/9. Check with your school library, however, to see if additional activites will be available for the last few weeks of the school year.

Best Memorial Day Picture Books (Learning Through Literature)

Get It Straight: The Difference Between Veterans Day and Memorial Day (CNN)

Memorial Day: A Commemoration (National Archives)

Memorial Day Lesson Ideas (National Education Association)

Virtual Tour of the National Museaum of the Marine Corps

Many of our schools are planning sight-specific summer reading opportunities for students. Here are a few additional resources for encouraging summer reading.

• Follett Summer Reading Resources (Free downloads for student summer reading journals for grades K- 8)
• Can You Read 100 Books this Summer (pdf provides a checklist of suggestions for places to read this summer)
• Camp Book-It! (Virtual Summer Reading Program)
• Scholastic Summer Reading (Virtual Summer Reading Program)
• Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program (Virtual Summer Reading Program)
• Sync Free Audiobook Program (For three months, teens can get two thematically paired audiobooks every week using the Sora app.)
• Chuck E Cheese Reading Rewards Calendar (10 days of reading = 10 free play points)
• Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) Summer Reading Road Trip (Each week, different destination-themed books are suggested with activites for students to complete)

Library/ Media Center Staff

Gwen Hudson, x. 7360 District Library/Media Specialist

Shelly Malott, x. 6331 District Library/Media Assistant

Kristi Steinhiser, x. 4432 MCHS Library/Media Assistant