 Dear Families:
A major goal of our schools is the promotion of reading as a lifetime pleasure. Parents play a significant role in developing their child's interest in reading.
The books on our list are for reading aloud and/or independent reading, depending upon your child's reading skills. We are providing a list of recommended books for you to share with your child over the summer months. Feel free to select other books according to your child's ability and interests. We offer the following suggestions to foster positive reading habits:
- Encourage routine visits to the public library. Join the Summer Reading Club.
- Make reading a family priority. Set aside 20-30 minutes a day for reading.
- Model good reading habits by letting your child see you reading.
- Encourage your child to read aloud to you and to friends and siblings.
- Ask your child to discuss what he/she is reading.
- Read aloud to your child often.
- If your child enjoys certain books, look for other titles by the same author.
- Challenge your child to compare and contrast books
- Provide games that require reading and/or thinking skills.
- Encourage writing in all forms - letter writing, list making, journal writing, etc.
- Limit the amount of time that your child spends watching television and playing computer and video games.
- Most of all, treat reading as an enjoyable family activity.
Websites offering additional titles and tips:
Sincerely,
The Elementary Reading Staff
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READING LIST
STUDENTS ENTERING GRADE ONE
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| AUTHOR |
TITLE |
| Aliki * |
My Five Senses |
| Asch |
Mooncake |
| Ashman |
Sailing Off to Sleep |
| Brett * |
The Mitten |
| Burningham |
Mr. Gumpy's Outing |
| Carle * |
The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| Carlstrom * |
Let's Count It Out, Jesse Bear |
| Carrick |
Patrick's Dinosaur |
| Chodos-Irvine |
Best Best Friends |
| Clark |
Never Say A Purple Cow and Other Nonsense Rhymes |
| Cohen * |
When Will I Read: Welcome to First Grade |
| Crews |
Harbor |
| Demuth |
Achoo! All About Colds |
| DePaola * |
Tony's Bread |
| Edwards |
Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Book |
| Fleming |
In The Small, Small Pond |
| Florian |
Beast Feast (poems) |
| Fox * |
Hattie and the Fox |
| Freeman |
Corduroy (series) |
| Ghigna |
One Hundred Shoes: A Math Reader |
| Galdone |
Three Billy Goats Gruff |
| Ginsburg |
Two Greedy Bears |
| Glaser |
It's Spring! |
| Greene |
The Very First Thanksgiving Day |
| Hader |
The Big Snow |
| Hague |
Animal Friends: A Collection of Poems for Children |
| Haseley |
A Story for Bear |
| Henkes * |
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse |
| Hoberman * |
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales... |
| Isaacs |
Pancakes for Supper |
| Jenkins (and Page) |
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? |
| Juster |
The Hello, Goodbye Window |
| Keats |
Goggles |
| Kellogg * |
Pinkerton, Behave! |
| Kirk |
Miss Spider's ABC |
| Kraus * |
Leo the Late Bloomer |
| Leodhas |
Always Room for One More |
| Lionni * |
Inch by Inch |
| Lobel * |
Mouse Tales |
| Marshall |
George and Martha (series) |
| Martin |
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? |
| McDonald |
Insects Are My Life |
| McPhail |
The Teddy Bear |
| Mitton |
Down By the Cool of the Pool |
| Neitzel |
I'm Not Feeling Well Today |
| Numeroff * |
If You Give a Pig a Pancake |
| Palatini |
Earthquake! |
| Pallotta |
Reeses Pieces Count by Fives |
| Payne |
Katy No Pocket |
| Pinkwater * |
Bad Bear Detectives: An Irving and Muktuk Story |
| Ryder * |
Hello First Grade |
| Salisbury |
A Bear Ate My Pear |
| Seeger |
Black? White! Day? Night! |
| Seuss * |
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
| Shannon |
Duck on a Bike |
| Sharmat |
Gregory The Terrible Eater |
| Shaw * |
Sheep in a Jeep |
| Stadler |
Hooray For Snail! |
| Steig |
Doctor DeSoto |
| Strickland |
Dinosaur Roar! |
| Waber |
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile |
| Walsh |
Do Pigs Have Stripes? |
| Ward |
Who's Been Eating My Porridge |
| Williams |
I Went Walking |
| Yektai |
Bears at the Beach: Counting 10 to 20 |
| Yolen |
Owl Moon |
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| * Look for more titles by these authors. |
