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Best Books for Kindergarteners and First Graders
I'm Starting to Read
I can read
Too good to miss
I can read Nonfiction
Picture Books
Chapter Books
Read to Me Nonfiction
Should I read aloud?
- Sometimes
Baker - Old Hat, New Hat
Berenstain - Hot
Dog
Coxe - Go,
Dog, Go
Eastman - Dog
and Cat
Fehlner - Happy
and Honey
Godwin - Big Small
Gordon - Shine,
Sun!
Greene - Too Many Cats
Haskins - Mouse Makes Words
Heling - Three
Bears
Hillert - Yellow
Boat
Hillert - What I See
Keller - Wet Pet
Kido - Hog and Dog
Landolf - Down
on the Farm
Lascaro - My Day
McKay - See Otto
Milgrim - I Am
Milios - Cat
and Dog
Minarik - Word
Bird Series
Moncure - Little
Bear
Namm - Ear
Book
Perkins - Joshua James Likes Trucks
Petrie - My
New Boy
Phillips - In the Yard
Rau - Boats Boats Boats
Ruane - Puppy
Mudge (series)
Rylant - Foot
Book
Seuss - Eye Book
Seuss - Nicky Upstairs and Down
Ziefert
I Can Read!
- Snow
Bauer - Bike Lesson
Berenstain - Biscuit
Capucilli - Cloudy Day Sunny Day
Crews - Are you my Mother?
Eastman - Funny Baby
Hillert - Not I, Not I
Hillert - Put me in the Zoo
Lopshire - Go away Dog
Nodset - Big Brown Bear
McPhail - A bug, a bear, and a boy
McPhail - Digging-est Dog
Perkins - Tae Kwon Do!
Pierce - Mittens
Schaeffer - One snowy day
Scherer - Hop on Pop
Seuss
Too Good to Miss! A Cast of Favorite Characters for Beginning Readers
- Berenstain
Bears (series)
Berenstain - Golly
Sisters (series)
Byars - Arthur's
Honey Bear
Hoban - Danny
and the Dinosaur
Hoff - Frog
and Toad (series)
Lobel - Little
Bear
Minarik - Amelia
Bedelia
Parish - Meet
M and M
Ross - Henry
and Mudge
Rylant - Poppleton
Rylant - Cat
in the Hat
Seuss - Nate
the Great
Sharmat - Amanda
Pig
Van Leeuwen
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I Can Read Nonfiction
- Counting penguins
J 513.211 C42C - Northern lights
J 538.768 C16N - Ocean
J 551.46 C16O - Rainbows
J 551.567 D97R - Autumn leaves
J 581.48 SA8A - Animal homes
J 591.564 C86A - Fishy tales
J 591.77 F53F - Arctic winter, arctic summer
J 591.99 C16A - Sea stars
J 593.93 SCH1S - Butterfly
J 595.789 C16B - Honey bees and honey
J 595.799 SCH1H - Frogs
J 597.89 C16F - Penguins
J 598.47 T66P - From egg to robin
J 598.843 C16F - A dolphin is not a fish
J 599.53 C42D - Polar bears
J 599.786 T66P - Your senses
J 612.8 F92Y - My ears
J 612.85 D74M - Diggers
J 621.865 P66D - Trains
J 625.1 R63T - School buses
J 629.222 K68S - Fall harvest
J 631.55 SA8F - Scarecrows
J 632.68 SC1S - Apples: a level one reader
J 634.11 K68A - We need veterinarians
J 636.089 SCH1W - Pigs
J 636.4 R21P - Chickens on the farm
J 636.5 SCH7C - My dog: a book about a special pet
J 636.7 F33M - My dog
J 636.7 H87M - Dalmatians
J 636.72 R13D - Kittens
J 636.8 D74K - My goldfish
J 639.37 W15M - Snakes
J 639.39 R92S - Turtles
J 639.39 R92T - Soccer: a level one reader
J 796.334 K68S - Our flag
J 929.92 B44O
Picture Books to share with your first grader
- Song
and Dance Man
Ackerman - Miss
Nelson Is Missing
Allard - Too Many Frogs
Asher - Hedgie's
Surprise
Brett - Arthur's
Tooth
Brown - First Grade Here I Come
Carlson - Sleep
Out
Carrick - Totally Polar
Crisp - Click,
Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Cronin - That's
Good! That's Bad!
Cuyler - Olivia
Falconer - Miss
Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10
Finchler - Chicken Big
Graves - Harvey
Potter's Balloon Farm
Harold - Lilly's
Purple Plastic Purse
Henkes
- Paul
Bunyan, a Tall Tale
Kellogg - Library Lion
Knudsen - Jake's 100th Day of School
Laminack - Froggy
Gets Dressed
London - Day
Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Noble - Earthquack!
Palatini - Book Fair Day
Plourde - Pamela
Camel
Peet - Just
Plain Fancy
Polacco - Officer
Buckle and Gloria
Rathman - When
I Was Young in the Mountains
Rylant - Alistair
in Outer Space
Sadler - Crazy Hair Day
Saltzberg - Whale's
Song
Sheldon - Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Slate - Brave
Irene
Steig - Jumanji
Van Allsburg - Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Viorst - Bunny Money
Wells - Tadpole's Promise
Willis - Owl
Moon
Yolen
Chapter books to share with your first grader
- Mr.
Popper's Penguins
Atwater - Stories
Julian Tells
Cameron - Ramona
the Brave
Cleary - Moffats
Estes - My
Father's Dragon
Gannett - "B" Is
for Betsy
Haywood - Russell
Sprouts
Hurwitz - Strawberry
Girl
Lenski - Betsy-Tacy
Lovelace - Mrs.
Piggle Wiggle
MacDonald - Sarah,
Plain and Tall
MacLachlan - Dinosaurs Before Dark
Osborne - Willow
Wind Farm
Pellowski - Cobble
Street Cousins (series)
Rylant - Boxcar
Children
Warner - Charlotte's
Web
White - Little
House in the Big Woods
Wilder
- Coin counting book
J 513.211 W67C - Time
J 529.7 H49T - Volcanoes!
J 551.21 C17V - My visit to the dinosaurs
J 567.9 AL4M - Actual size
J 591.4 J41A - Ocean
J 591.77 G79O - Butterfly
J 595.789 SP4B - Hungry hungry sharks
J 597.31 C67H - Airplane
J 629.13334 B51A - Flutter and Float: Bringing Home Goldfish
J 639.37 T64F - From wax to crayon
J 741.23 N33F - My soccer book
J 796.334 G34M - Nice hit!
J 796.357 F27N - Titanic: the disaster the shocked the world
J 910.4 D85T - Recess at 20 below
J 917.98 AI5R - Statue of Liberty
J 974.7 B51S
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Should I read aloud to my first grader?
The experts say "YES" because:
1. Family reading promotes a child's desire to read independently.
2. Family reading fosters improvement of a child's reading
skills.
3. All through their school years, children can enjoy
listening to books too difficult to read alone, yet not beyond them
intellectually.
4. Wonderful books that are hard to "get into" or
have slow beginnings are more accessible when read aloud.
5. For the student whose inability to read has barred
him from
stimulating literature, reading aloud is absolutely essential!
6.
Studies show that reading aloud significantly broadens
interests
and tastes, helping children to grow intellectually.
7. Exposing children to good literature increases the
chance that
reading will become a positive life-time pursuit.