Rising K3 summer learning
“The seeds of reading and school success are sown in the home,
long before the child ever arrives at school.”
–Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook
To encourage continued growth in reading skills through the summer, the following list of titles has been compiled by the classroom teachers and media specialist to assist children and parents in the selection of books. It is not necessary to limit your choices to these titles, as there are many excellent books also available through your local library. We ask that students spend at least twenty minutes a day reading or being read to.
Want more ideas?
If you are interested in seeing other recommended book lists, a good place to start is the ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) website.
Click here to download a Reading Rockets Parents’ Tip Sheet with ideas on how to help your child become a successful reader.
Take the Summer Literacy Challenge! Included here are ten ideas for parents that can make summer a time of learning, creative expression, and above all, fun!
Finally, Start with a Book is a fantastic website full of ideas about summer reading activities you can share with your kids. Each theme includes book ideas, activities, websites with interactive media, and much more.
Want more ideas?
If you are interested in seeing other recommended book lists, a good place to start is the ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children) website.
Click here to download a Reading Rockets Parents’ Tip Sheet with ideas on how to help your child become a successful reader.
Take the Summer Literacy Challenge! Included here are ten ideas for parents that can make summer a time of learning, creative expression, and above all, fun!
Finally, Start with a Book is a fantastic website full of ideas about summer reading activities you can share with your kids. Each theme includes book ideas, activities, websites with interactive media, and much more.
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Adams, Adrienne, The Easter Egg Artists
Ahlberg, Janet and Allan, Each Peach Pear Plum Aliki, Feelings Anderson, Peggy Perry, Time for Bed, the Baby Sitter Said Asch, Frank, Happy Birthday, Moon; Moon Bear Auch, Mary Jane, Peeping Beauty Averill, Esther, The Fire Cat Baker, Keith, Hide and Snake Balian, Lorna and Lecia, The Aminal Bang, Molly, Ten, Nine, Eight; The Paper Crane; Tye May and the Magic Brush Bemelmans, Ludwig, Madeline series Berger, Terry, I Have Feelings Brett, Jan, Annie and the Wild Animals; Goldilocks and the Three Bears Brown, Marc, Hand Rhymes; Finger Rhymes Brown, Margaret Wise, The Indoor Noisy Book; Goodnight Moon; The Runaway Bunny; and others Buckley, Helen, Grandfather and I; My Sister and I; Grandmother and I Burton, Marilee Robin, Tail, Toes, Eyes, Ears, Nose Burton, Virginia Lee, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Butterworth, Nick, Jasper’s Beanstalk Carle, Eric, The Very Busy Spider; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; and others Cazet, Denys, I’m Not Sleepy Christelow, Elileen, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Cleary, Beverly, The Real Hole; Two Dog Biscuits Coats, Laura Jane, Alphabet Garden; Ten Little Animals Crews,Donald, School Bus; Ten Black Dots; Truck; Big Mama’s Shortcut de Angeli, Marguerite, Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes de Brunhoff, Jean, The Story of Babar dePaola, Tomie, any by this author de Regniers, Beatrice, May I Bring a Friend? Duvoisin, Roger, The Rain Puddle; Veronica; Petunia; and others Duncan, Lois, Songs from Dreamland (Book and Cassette Classic Series) Dutton, Sandra, The Cinnamon Hen’s Autumn Day Emerson, Sally, The Nursery Treasury: A Collection of Baby Games, Rhymes and Lullabies Fleming, Denise, In the Tall, Tall Grass Florian, Douglas, At the Zoo Fox, Mem, Hattie and the Fox; Shoes from Grandpa Freeman, Don, Corduroy books Gackenbach, Dick, Hattie Be Quiet, Hattie Be Good; Hattie Rabbit; Mother Rabbit’s Son Tom Gag, Wanda, Millions of Cats; The ABC Bunny Galdone, Paul, The Frog Prince; The Three Bears; The Three Little Kittens; and others Garten, Jan, The Alphabet Tale Geraghty, Paul, Look Out Patrick Guilfoile, Elizabeth, Nobody Listens to Andrew Heide, Florence Parry, That’s What Friends Are For Heine, Helme, Friends Henkes, Kevin, Julius, the Baby of the World; Owen Heyward Dubose, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes Hill, Eric, Spot books Hoban, Russell, Bedtime for Frances; Bread and Jam for Frances; A Mystery Counting Book Hoguet, Susan, I Unpacked My Grandmother’s Trunk Hutchins, Pat, Rosie’s Walk; Surprise Party; What Games Shall We Play?; Little Pink Pig Johnson, Crockett, Harold and the Purple Crayon Joyce, William, Bentley and Egg Keats, Ezra Jack, The Snowy Day; Peter’s Chair; Kitten for a Day; Pet Show; Goggles; and others Kellogg, Steven, The Mysterious Tadpole; Pinkerton books; and others Keller, Holly, Geraldine’s Blanket; Geraldine’s Big Show; Furry Kessler, Ethel and Leonard, Do Baby Bears Sit in Chairs?; The Day Daddy Stayed Home; The Big Red Bus Kimmel, Eric A. (retold), The Gingerbread Man Krauss, Ruth, The Backward Day; A Hole is to Dig; I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue; and others |
Kroll, Steven, Pigs in the House
Leaf, Munro, The Story of Ferdinand Lewis, Kim, The Shepherd Boy; Emma’s Lamb Lionni, Leo, Swimmy; Colors; Cornelius; Fish is Fish; Tico and the Golden Wings; and others Lobel, Arnold, A Zoo for Mister Muster; Mouse Tale; Frog and Toad books Macaulay, David, Why the Chicken Crossed the Road Madden, Don, The Wartville Wizard McCloskey, Robert, Make Way for Ducklings McCully, Emily Arnold, Mirette on the High Wire McPhail, David, Henry Bear’s Park; Stanley; Henry; Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! McMillan, Bruce, Growing Colors; Bear’s Friend; Fix It; Dream Child; The Bear’s Toothache Marshall, James (retold), Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Gretel; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and others Martin, Bill, Jr., Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Milne, A.A., Now We Are Six; When We Were Very Young; The Christopher Robin Book of Verse Minarik, Else, Little Bear; A Kiss for Little Bear; Father Bear Comes Home; No Fighting, No Biting Numeroff, Laura, If You Give a Moose a Muffin; If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Oxenbury, Helen, Tom and Pippo books Peek, Merle, Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers Pfister, Marcus, Rainbow Fish; Dazzle the Dinosaur Polacco, Patricia, Chicken Sunday; Just Plain Fancy Polushkin, Maria, Baby Brother Blues; Who Said Meow? Prelutsky, Jack, The Random House Book of Poetry for Children; Read Aloud Rhymes for Very Young; Ride a Purple Pelican Piper, Watty, The Little Engine That Could Potter, Beatrix, Peter Rabbit books Provensen, Alice, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm Rey, H.A., Curious George series Rockwell, Anne, At the Beach; Pots and Pans Rogers, Fred, Making Friends Rosen, Michael, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Rounds, Glen, Old McDonald Had a Farm Rylant, Cynthia, Henry and Mudge series Schertle, Alice, William and Grandpa Schlein, Miriam, Fast is Not a Ladybug; Heavy is a Hippopotamus Sendak, Maurice, Where the Wild Things Are; Nutshell Library Serfozo, Mary, Who Said Red?; Rain Talk; Benjamin Bigfoot Seuss, Dr., The Cat in the Hat; Green Eggs and Ham; The Foot Book Sharmat, Mitchell, Gregory, the Terrible Eater Shaw, Nancy, Sheep in a Shop; Sheep Out to Eat Sheppard, Jeff, Splash, Splash Silverstein, Shel, The Giving Tree Steig, William, Doctor DeSoto Tafuri, Nancy, Have You Seen My Duckling?; Early Morning in the Barn; In a Red House; and others Udry, Janice May, A Tree is Nice Viorst, Judith, The Tenth Good Thing About Barney; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Voake, Charlotte, Mrs. Goose’s Baby Waber, Bernard, Ira Sleeps Over; Ira Says Goodbye Walsh, Ellen Stoll, Mouse Paint Wellington, Monica, All My Little Ducklings Wells, Rosemary, Hazel’s Amazing Mother; Max’s Dragon Shirt; Max’s Chocolate Chicken Whipple, Laura (compiler), Eric Carle’s Animals, Animals Wiesner, David, Tuesday Wildsmith, Brian, Give the Dog a Bone Williams, Vera B., Kevin’s Grandma; A Chair for My Mother; Music, Music for Everyone Wolff, Ashley, Stella and Roy Wood, Don & Audrey, The Napping House; Piggies Yolen, Jane, Owl Moon Zion, Gene, Harry the Dirty Dog; No Roses for Harry; The Plant Sitter Zolotow, Charlotte, The Sky Was Blue; The Quarreling Book; and others |