From the Scituate Elementary Schools
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Prepared by Elizabeth Danis, Wampatuck Reading Specialist Elaine Murphy, Hatherly Reading Specialist Mary Penny, Cushing Reading Specialist Joey VonIderstein, Scituate Town Library Children's Librarian READ ALOUDS The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. It is believed that if parents would spend as little as fifteen minutes a day reading to children, schools could be revolutionized. If reading aloud is not a daily habit in your home, give it a try. |
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Anderson, Hans Christian Atwater, Richard & Florence Biano Bond, Michael Brown. Marcia Burgess, Thornton Burnett, Frances Hodges Christelow, Eileen Cleary, Beverly Dahl, Roald Daughery, James Freeman, Donald Grahame, Kenneth Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Henkes, Kevin Henry, Marguerite Hughes, Shirley Kipling, Rudyard Leaf, Manro Mead, Katherine Milne, A.A. Seldon, George VanAllsburg, Chris Wilder, Laura Ingalls White, E.B. |
Aesops Fables Mr. Popper's Penguins The Velveteen Rabbit A Bear Called Paddington Stone Soup Old Mother West Wind The Secret Garden Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed The Romona Books Fantastic Mr. Fox Andy & the Lion Corduroy The Wind & the Willows Grimm's Fairy Tales Owen, Chrysanthemum Misty of Chincoteaque All About Alfie Just So Stories The Story of Ferdin& the Bull Ten Silly Bears Winnie the Pooh Cricket in Times Square The Polar Express Little House in the Big Woods Charlotte's Web |
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ABC & COUNTING BOOKS |
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Bayer, Jane Dragonwagon, Crescent Hague, Kathleen Lobel, Arnold Pallotta, Jerry Shannon, George |
My Name is Alice Alligator Arrived With Apples Alphabears Away From Home Various Titles Tomorrow's Alphabet |
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PHONEMIC AWARENESS Those who study the subject in depth are getting closer to a full underst&ing of how a child acquires the ability to read. These things are highly correlated with learning the complex skill of reading: knowledge of the alphabet, the ability to hear rhymes in words, & being able to separate the distinct sounds of words. The separating of sounds is referred to as phonemic awareness. These three preparations for reading have been going on in most families & in early education since the dawn of history. The books listed here will help young children experience the critical components of literacy & learning to read. They are irresistible to children & adults. Every family has its own favorites. Here are ours: WORD PATTERNING/RHYMING |
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Ahlberg, Janet Buller, John Carle, Eric Carlstrom, Nancy Langstaff, John Langstaff, John Lear, Edward Lewiston, Wendy Martin, Bill Martin, Bill Rosen, Michael Sendak, Maurice Seuss, Dr. Shaw, Nancy Wood, Audrey Yolen, Jane |
Each Peach Pear Plum I Love You, Goodnight Animals, Animals Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go Over in the Meadow The Owl & the Pussycat Buzz Said The Bee Brown Bear, Brown Bear Chicka Chicka Boom Boom We're Going on a Bear Hunt Chicken Soup with Rice The Cat in the Hat Sheep in a Jeep Napping House Old Dame Counterpane |
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NURSERY RHYME COLLECTIONS |
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DaPaola, Tomie Jones, Douglas Opie, Iona Opie, Iona |
Mother Goose Hickory Dickory Dock My Very First Mother Goose The Real Mother Goose |
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SERIES BOOKS FOR BEGINNING READERS Series books are good for the younger readers who grow attached to a character they love & situations they fin amusing. Once your child finds a character he or she can identify with , your family will have hours of reading pleasure. |
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Adler, David Bridwell, Norman Brown, Marc Cleary, Beverly deBrunoff, Jean Giff, Patricia Hoban, Lillian Hoban, Russell Lobel, Arnold Minarik, Else Osborne, Mary P. Parrish, Peggy Rylant, Cynthia Seuss, Dr. Sharmat, Marjorie Slate, Joseph Warner, Gertrude |
Cam Jansen Series Clifford Books Arthur Books Ramona Books Babar Books Kids of Polk Street Arthur's Pen Pal Frances Frog & Toad Little Bear Magic Tree House Amelia Bedelia Henry & Mudge All Titles Nate the Great Miss Bindergarten Boxcar Children |
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Also try: American Girl Books Bob Readers Puffin Easy-to-Read Step Into Reading FAVORITE AUTHORS FROM THE SCITUATE ELEMENTARY LITERATURE CURRICULUM These "favorite authors" are found in the Literature Series used in the Scituate Public Elementary Schools. You will recognize many of them as today's best writers of children's literature. Adults will find pleasure reading these authors along with their children. |
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Ardizzone, Edward* Bemelmans, Ludwig* Brett, Jan Brown, Marc* Brown, Margaret Wise* Bunting, Eve* Burningham, John Burton, Virginia* Carle, Eric Carrick, Donald Cooney,Barbara dePaola, Tomie* Flournoy, Valerie Fox, Mem Gag, W&a* Greenfield, Eloise* Huchins, Pat Isodora, Rachael Keats, Ezra Jack* Kellogg, Steven Lionni, Leo* |
Marshall, James McCloskey, Robert* McKissak, Patricia McPhail, David Numeroff, Laura Peet, Bill Pilkey, Dave Pinkwater, Daniel* CarlPolacco, Patricia Potter, Beatrix* CooRey, Margaret&H.A.* Rylant, Cynthia* Sendak, Maurice Steig, William* Steptoe, John* Stevenson, James VanAllsburg, Chris* Waber, Bernard Williams, Vera* Yolen, Jane* Yoshida, Toshi |
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* Massachusetts Language Arts Frameworks recommended author
POETRY All of these poets are found in the Massachusetts Frameworks Curriculum Guide of recommended authors. More than ever, teachers & test-makers are aware of the importance of poetry for young learners. For the very youngest, its rhythms & patterns assist in learning to read &, the white spaces on a page are a relief for beginning readers. For our older learners, not only do the sounds & rhythms captivate, but the medium of poetry forces them to reread, probe, think, assess, compare & wonder about meaning...all skills essential to higher level reading & thinking. Ciardi, John Field, Rachel Frost, Robert Hughes, Langstron Lear, Edward Longfellow, Henry W. McCord, David Milne, A.A. Prelutsky, Jack Richards, Laura Silverstein, Shel Stevenson, Robert L. 4+ |
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Alcott, Louisa May Alex&er, Lloyd Asimov, Isaac Avi Babbit, Natalie Byars, Betsy Blos, Joan Blume, Judy Brink, Carol Ryrie Christopher, John Christopher, Matt Cleary, Beverly Clements, Andrew Climo, Shirley Cooper, Susan Cushman, Karen Dahl, Roald DeJong, Meindert Eager, Edward Estes, Eleanor Fitzhugh, Louise Franklin, Kristine George, Jean Craighead Giff, Patricia Reilly Griffin, Judith Berry Haddin, Margaret Haley, Gail Hamilton, Virginia Janes, Stephen Harshman, March Hautzig, Esther Henry, Marquerite Hildick, EW Hooks, William Howe, Deborah & James Hunt, Irene Hunter, Sara Jacques, Brian Kidd, Diana King-Smith, Richard Konigsburg, EL L'Engle, Madeline Langton, Jane Lasker, Joe Levine, Gail Lewis, CS Lowry, Lois McKissak, Patricia Meddagh, Susan Montgomery, Lucy Moss, Marissa Naylor, Phyllis North, Sterling O'Dell, Scott Park, Barbara Paterson, Katherine Paulsen, Gary Peck, Robert Pullman, Philip Quackenbush, Robert Rockwell, Rowling, JK Sachar, Louis Scieszka, Jon Scioscia, Mary Selden, George Snyder, Zilpha Keatley Sobol, Donald Soto, Gary Spinelli, Jerry Steckler, Arthur Taylor, Mildred Tolkien, JR Uchida, Yoshiko White, EB Wilder, Laura Ingalls Williams, Barbara Wright, Betty R. Yep, Lawrence Yolen, Jane |
Little Women The Arkadians Caught in the Organ Draft Poppy Tuck Everlasting The Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery A Gathering of Days Are You There God, It's Me Margaret Caddie Woodlawn When the Tripods Came sports stories Ramona stories Frindle The Egyptian Cinderella The Dark is Rising, The Boggart Ballad Lucy Whipple; Cath'ne Called Birdy The BFG The Wheel on the School Half Magic The Hundred Dresses Harriet The Spy Iguana Beach Julie of the Wolves & others Lily's Crossing & others Phoebe the Spy Running Out of Time A Story, A Story The People Could Fly; The House of Dies Drear Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days The Storm Riches King of the Wind (series) The Case of the Purloined Parrot Circle of Fire Bunnicula Across Five Aprils The Unbreakable Code The Redwall Series; Mossflower Onion Tears Babe the Gallant Pig & others From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler A Wrinkle In Time The Fragile Flag; Fledgling & others A Tournament of Knights Ella Enchanted Chronicles of Narnia Anastasia stories; Number the Stars; All About Sam Ma Dear's Aprons Martha stories; Cinderella's Rat Ann of Green Gables Amelia's Notebook Shiloh stories; Alice stories Rascal & others The Black Pearl & others Skinnybones & others Bridge to Terabithia; Jip & others Dog Song & others Soup The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife Mark Twain? What Kind of Name is That? How to Eat Fried Worms Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone & others Sideways Stories from Wayside School Summer Reading is Killing Me! The Bicycle Rider The Cricket in Times Square Cat Running Encyclopedia Brown stories Taking Sides Maniac Magee & others One Hundred & One Words & How They Began Mississippi Bridge; Trouble with Tuck Rover&um & others Journey Home Trumpet of the Swan; Charlotte's Web; Stuart Little Little House stories Titanic Crossing Out of the Dark Child of the Owl, Dragon of the Lost Sea Merlin; Hobby; Passager |
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NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY |
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Allman, Barbara Bray, Rosemary L. Cooney, Barbara Freedman, Russell Fritz, Jean Hearne, Betsy Ryan, Pam Munoz Siebert, Jerry Sis, Peter Stanley, Diane |
Her Piano Sang, Story of Clara Schumann Martin Luther King, Jr Eleanor Lincoln, a Photobiography And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Seven Brave Women Riding Freedom Sacagawea Starry Messenger Leonardo Da Vinci |
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SOPHISTICATED PICTURE BOOKS |
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Bedard, Michael Bunting,Eve Carrick, Carol Cherry, Lynne Coerr, Eleanor George, Jean Harners, Cheryl Hest, Amy Leighton, Maxine Rhea McCully, Emily Arnold Polacco, Patricia Ringgold, Faith Ryl&, Cynthia Seuss, Dr. Shakespeare, William Stewart, Sarah Yolen, Jane |
Emily So Far From the Sea Whaling Days A River Ran Wild Sadako Dear Rebecca, Winter is Coming The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal When Jessie Came Across the Sea An Ellis Isl& Christmas The Bobbin Girl Pink & Say Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad Appalachia, The Voice of Sleeping Birds The Butter Battle Book Midsummer Night's Dream The Gardener Piggins |
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NEW NONFICTION TO TRY |
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Br&enburg, J. George, LC Locker, Thomas McPherson, SS Miller, Br&on |
Adventures on the American Prairie Everglades Water Dance Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein Women of the Old West |
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NONFICTION INFORMATION BOOKS |
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Arnold, Caroline Ballard, Robert D Charlip, Remy Cole, Joanna Facklam, Margery French, Vivian Gans, Roma George, William & Barrett Gibbons, Gail Jacobsen, Karen Knight, Margy Burns Leedy, Loreen Simon, Seymour |
Fox Exploring the Titanic H&talk The Magic Schoolbus stories The Big Bug Book Caterpillar, Caterpillar When Birds Change Their Feathers Beaver at Long Pond, Box Turtle Pirates Greece Talking Walls: Stories Continue Postcards from Pluto The Heart |
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SPORTS FICTION |
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Breitenbucher, Cathy Brooks, Bruce Christopher, Matt Iguchi, Bryan Jackman, Joan Krull, Kathleen Littlefield, Bill Mathis, Sharon Bell Donohue, Shiobhan Goldstein, Margaret Goldenbock, Peter Honig, Donald Ritter, Lawrence Thornley, Stew |
Bonnie Blair: Golden Streak Woodsie #1 of Wolfbay Wings series Double Play at Shortstop The Young Snowboarder The Young Gymnast Lives of the Athletes Champions Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose Kristi Yamaguchi Brett Hull Teammates The Boston Red Sox Leagues Apart Cal Ripkin, Jr |
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REFERENCES FOR PARENTS |
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Bauermeister, Erica Cuyahoga County Public Library Donavin, Denise Odean, Kathleen Trelease, Jim |
Let's Hear It for the Girls Preschoolers Leap into Books For Reading Out Loud Great Books for Girls & Great Books for Boys The Read Aloud H&book & Hey! Listen to This stories |