Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Reading List for Aapi... lets see how far we get

Babu and Miracle Baby #3 woke me up at 3am this morning for a potty break, diaper change and bottle...  and here I sit at 3:42 still awake.  Why not get a little summer vacation planning done!  This is the summer reading list I found on a random site geared to incoming 1st graders.  I plan on doing weekly library visits this summer so I think we'll print this list and see how much we can read together.  I have highlighted the books we've already read and plan to check in as the summer progresses to see where this takes us...

INCOMING FIRST GRADERS:

Read Aloud Books:  ALL children can benefit from being read to. Any book lends itself to being a read aloud. Please read fairy tales and folk tales to your children whenever possible. They are a rich and beneficial part of our literary heritage, and enhance the cultural literacy of our children. Children love to hear adults read to them. It creates a special time between adult and child. Choose a book that is at least 2-3 grade levels above your child's reading level. Children can listen to language at a higher level than they can read. The grade levels here are suggestions - let your child's interests and maturity guide you in selecting an appropriate book. It only takes 20 minutes a day!
TITLE                        AUTHOR

AAAARRGGHH! SPIDER! Lydia Monks
AMAZON ALPHABET Martin & Tanis Jordan
ANASI DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE Verna Aardema
ANIMALS OF THE NIGHT Merry Bank
CHARLOTTE'S WEB E.B. White
COLOR ZOO Lois Ehlert
EVERETT ANDERSON'S YEAR Lucille Clifton
FIRST THE EGG Laura Vaccaro Seeger
FOREST OF DREAMS Rosemary Wells
FROG AND TOAD (other titles) Arnold Lobel
GOTTA GO! GOTTA GO! Sam Swope
HERE COME THE ALIENS Colin McNaughton
I KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY Nadine Bernard Westcott
IRA SLEEPS OVER Bernard Waber
IS YOUR MAMA A LLAMA? Deborah Guarino
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH Roald Dahl
KNIGHTS OF THE KITCHEN TABLE Jon Scieszka
LITTLE PENGUIN'S TALE Audrey Wood
LON PO PO Ed Young
MY FATHER'S DRAGON Ruth Stiles Gannett
NICK PLAYS BASEBALL Rachel Isadora
SHY CHARLES Rosemary Wells
TERRIFIC Jon Agee
THE CHOCOLATE TOUCH Patrick Skene Catling
THE LIBRARY Sarah Steward
THE RUNAWAY BUNNY Margaret Wise Brown
THE SNOWMAN Raymond Briggs
THE TUB PEOPLE Pam Conrad
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Kenneth Grahame
THE SNOWY DAY (and other titles) Ezra J. Keats
TURTLE KNOWS YOUR NAME Ashley Bryan
WHY MOSQUITOES BUZZ IN PEOPLE'S EARS Verna Aardema
YOU READ TO ME, I’LL READ TO YOU: VERY SHORT FAIRY TALES TO READ TOGETHER Mary Ann Hoberman

Have Your Child Read to You:  For children who are just learning to read, there are many excellent wordless books on the market also (such as the GOOD DOG, CARL series). Have your child "read" these to you by telling the story of the pictures. ABC and number books (such as ANNO'S ALPHABET and ALPHABATICS) are also excellent selections for this age group. Other children are already picking up books and reading them aloud to you. If this is your child, here are some book recommendations they may want to read to you.
•Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
•Biscuit (other titles) by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
•City Dog by Karla Kuskin
•Freight Train by Donald Crews
•I Love Trucks! by Philemon Sturges
•If You Give a Moose a Muffin (other titles) by Laura Numeroff
•My Very First Mother Goose by Rosemary Wells and Iona Opie
•No David! (other titles) by David Shannon
•Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (other titles) by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
•Sheep in a Jeep (other titles) by Nancy Shaw and Margot Apple
•The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
•Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
•Where’s Spot? (other titles) by Eric Hill
•The I CAN READ books by the following authors: Arnold Lobel, Kay Chorao, Majorie W. Sharmat, Doug Cushman, Clyde Bulla, Ida Luttrell

Try these titles from the Virginia Young Readers list:
•Chester by Melanie West
•Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
•Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
•Hansel and Gretel by Rachel Isadora
•I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont
•I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry
•Katie Loves the Kittens by John Himmelman
•Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
•Too Many Toys by David Shannon
•Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa by Jeanette Winter