Book Recommendations

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For Parents:

1.  Reading Magic by Mem Fox :This is a wonderful resource and very inspirational!

 

2. The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease: A wealth of information on reading!

 

3. Hey! Listen to This: Stories to Read Aloudby Jim Trelease: Stories to read and enjoy with your child!

 

4. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Youngby Jack Prelutsky: Rhymes to read with your child. Identifying and production of rhyme are very important in learning to read.

 

5. You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman: I love this book because you and your child can read together! This book uses rhyme and repetition to help a child read their part of the story.

 

6. Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses by Mary Engelbreit: Nursery rhymes are stories often over looked but are so important to help support a child's literacy learning. Also they are fun and often silly! 

 

For Children:

1. Bob's Books. by Bobby Lynn Maslen: These books are great when a child is first learning to read! The words are simple and lend themselves to sounding out because they are often consonant-vowel-consonant words. The words rhyme and the pattern repeats. There are many sets that grow with your child!

 

2. Sight Word Readers by Scholastic:  These books are great because they incorporate high frequency or sight words. Children need a large repertoire of sight words to help them navigate through text. Many words in the English language do not lend themselves to sounding out and through seeing these words frequently in print children recognize them automatically.

 

3. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak: Great book!

 

4. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (Or any Dr. Seuss book!) These books are fun, engaging, provide rhythm, repetition and children want to read them over and over!

 

5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?by Eric Carle: This book and any other by Eric Carle are delightful books to share with your child. They are predictable and full of rhyme and repetition.

 

6. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (or any Kevin Henkes book!): This book is about a child who gets teased at school because of her name and how her parents refuse to let her think that she and her name are anything less than absolutely perfect! Kevin Henkes is one of my favorite authors because he writes about things that kids deal with bullying, teasing, worrying, a new sibling, etc.

 

7. The Moon by Seymour Simon (or any Seymour Simon book!): Simon writes non-fiction, informational books. The pictures are phenomenal and children love them! Some topics he covers are sharks, volcanoes, tornadoes, the sun, the moon, galaxies, muscles, bones, rain forests, trucks, mummies and pyramids, snakes, mountains, gorillas, and many more!

 

8. Koala Lou by Mem Fox (or any Mem Fox book!): In this book, Koala Lou discovers that all she has to do for her mother to love her is be herself. Mem Fox writes lovely stories that parents and children will love!