Get Ready to Read!: Print Motivation
Children who express an interest in books and enjoy participating in the reading experience will want to learn how to read. The following book selections encourage children to actively engage in the reading experience by using finger rhymes, enacting the story, or repeating a refrain.
BIRTH TO TWO-YEAR-OLDS
- Wiggle Waggle
London - We've All Got Bellybuttons!
Martin - I Kissed the Baby!
Murphy - My Very First Mother Goose
Opie/Wells - I Went Walking
Williams - Moo Moo, Brown Cow
Wood
TWO AND THREE-YEAR-OLDS
- Just Like Daddy
Asch - Who Ate All the Cookie Dough?
Beaumont - If You're Happy and You Know It!
Cabrera - From Head to Toe
Carle - Wiggle
Cronin - It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Shaw - Noisy Way to Bed
Whybrow - Say Hello to the Snowy Animals
Whybrow - Piglet and Mama
Wild
FOUR AND FIVE-YEAR-OLDS
- What's the Time, Grandma Wolf?
Brown - Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Litwin - If the Dinosaurs Came Back
Most - We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Rosen - Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme
Westcott - Cow Loves Cookies
Wilson
OTHER SKILLS:
SOME ADVICE ON CHOOSING BOOKS FOR YOUR CHILD
Print-friendly list of all six pre-reading skills and advice on choosing books
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