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ELSIE: Early Literacy Storytime Ideas Exchange
Search ELSIE to find books that help children develop the early literacy skills needed for learning success. Presentation notes show how to emphasize skills in a fun, interactive story sharing experience. Search ELSIE by keyword and/or by early literacy skills. Newest titles appear first.
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| Harris, Trudy. | The Clock Struck One : A Time-Telling Tale
added Nov 18, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Here’s a new twist on a familiar Mother Goose story filled with rhyming words and a funny narrative. Follow along from one o’clock when the mouse runs up the clock to twelve o’c... read more |
| Gravett, Emily. | Spells
added Nov 13, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: A small green frog realizes a bit too late that the book of spells he shredded to make boats, castles and dancing ladies contained exactly what he needed to turn himself into a Handsome Prince. O... read more |
| Chessa, Francesca | Holly's Red Boots
added Nov 12, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Vividly illustrated, Holly’s Red Boots gives you plenty of opportunities to identify colors and objects as you help Holly hunt for her raingear. You can heighten the drama by turning the page very S-...read more |
| Smith, Lane | The Big Pets
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: In our dreams, anything is possible, and children love to enter that realm of make-believe. Fortunately for them, Lane Smith writes and illustrates unapologetically of the fantastical. This story... read more |
| Kimpton, Diana | The Lamb-a-Roo
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: Little orphaned Lamb is thrilled to meet a joeyless kangaroo. The two form an instant attachment, but Lamb finds it's not easy being green, or in his case, furry and earthbound. Will his ma-a... read more |
| Nobisso, Josephine | The Numbers Dance : A Counting Comedy
added Nov 6, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Numbers come alive in Josephine Nobisso's clever and entertaining book. The numbers 1 to 10 put on a show, each page boasting a different style of dance from waltz to line dance. Nobisso uses... read more |
| Leuck, Laura. | For Just One Day
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: If you could be anything at all for just one day, what would you be? For one imaginative child, the world is full of possibilities from bear to bunny from crocodile to butterfly. Chil... read more |
| Whitman, Candace | Lines That Wiggle
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Have you ever noticed the myriad lines surrounding you? You will now! Check out Candace Whitman's wild new blue glitter line as it runs from the garden to the sea and up into... read more |
| Haseley, Dennis | Photographer Mole
added Nov 5, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: When children look at old photographs, they almost always notice something: nobody's smiling! Author Dennis Haseley takes his audience back to the early 1900s to tell the story of a highly-sk... read more |
| Hopgood, Tim | Wow! Said the Owl
added Oct 31, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Little owl stays up all day to see the magnificent colors in the world around her. This beautiful book will illicit a “wow” from your child! Each picture features a color. Have your child ...read more |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Long Night Moon
added Oct 30, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: As with the seasons, the moon is ever-changing, continually bringing new life and meaning. In Cynthia Rylant's hauntingly poetic book, twelve moons are given names and crystallized with delic... read more |
| Ditchfield, Christin. | Shwatsit! : No One Knows Just What it Means
added Oct 30, 2009
Skills featured: Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Have you ever known a baby to use one favorite word or sound that could mean anything and everything? That's exactly how Baby Sister seems to use the word "shwatsit." Isn't that... read more |
| Berger, Joe, 1970- | Bridget Fidget and the Most Perfect Pet!
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Bridget wants a pet, specifically a unicorn. When a surprise box arrives at her front door she guesses that her perfect pet has finally arrived. But has it? The box is awfully small for a unicorn... read more |
| Lithgow, John | I Got Two Dogs
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Looking for a book with a snappy rhythmic text and lots of opportunities for audience participation? Try I Got Two Dogs. Your listeners can watch the text for the letters OOOOOOOOOOOOOO and howl ... read more |
| Anthony, Michelle | My First Signs
added Oct 22, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Narrative skills enable us to describe things and talk about events and tell stories. They are enhanced when children can apply a book to their lives. My First Signs teaches them the sign languag... read more |
| Ellery, Amanda. | If I Were a Jungle Animal
added Oct 21, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: "Morton! Pay attention out there!" There isn't always a lot of action in right field during Little League baseball games, so it's hard for Morton not to let his mind wander. He ... read more |
| Tafuri, Nancy. | The Big Storm : a Very Soggy Counting Book
added Oct 16, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: The animals of the forest flee to a dry cave during a rainstorm. Little do they know what else may be in this warm, dry cave! The text of this book has a nice, repetitive phrase that children will lat...read more |
| Plourde, Lynn. | Grandpappy Snippy Snappies
added Oct 15, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: In a story that fairly pops off the page, Lynn Plourde takes children on a journey with Grandpappy, a man who snippy snappies his suspenders all the day. Such behavior releases cows stuck i... read more |
| Hamilton, K. R. (Kersten R.) | Red Truck
added Oct 14, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: What do you love to do in the winter? Make snowmen? Yay! Drink hot cocoa? Yay! Getting stuck in the melting snow while riding in a school bus? NO! But don't worry, help is on its way in the f... read more |
| Bradley, MaryChris. | Knock! Knock!
added Oct 9, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Get children involved in the repeated “Knock! Knock!” in this story, for print motivation. Behind each of the different colored doors (great for reinforcing color vocabulary), a different surprise is...read more |
| MacDonald, Suse. | Shape By Shape
added Oct 9, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Reminiscent of Go Away, Big Green Monster!, the die-cut pages in this book reveal, step-by-step, a surprise ending. Children will love guessing what animal is being created with basic shapes and ... read more |
| Parenteau, Shirley. | Bears On Chairs
added Oct 7, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Like the recent favorite Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear, Bears on Chairs takes a small number of simple rhyming words and cooks up a masterpiece. We meet four small bears who cli... read more |
| Ditchfield, Christin | Cowlick!
added Oct 7, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: To find the definition of a cowlick, refer to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: "a lock or tuft of hair growing in a different direction from the rest of the hair." To find the true meani... read more |
| Deacon, Alexis | Beegu
added Oct 6, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: If a martian landed on Earth, how would she survive? In a modern-day retelling of The Ugly Duckling, Alexis Deacon's Beegu must face the world alone, trying desperately to be understoo... read more |
| McAllister, Angela | Brave Bitsy and the Bear
added Oct 6, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Toy mouse Bitsy and her friend Bear become unlikely allies in Angela McAllister's lovely tale of loyalty and friendship. Bear brings Bitsy back to her home and Bitsy makes sure that Bear is w... read more |
| Roth, Carol | All Aboard to Work - Choo-Choo!
added Oct 2, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: All aboard! With each new passenger boarding the work-bound train comes a brief, yet rhythmic, description of various professions. Ask questions like "what is this bear's job?" and "what is this d...read more |
| Milton, Giles | Call Me Gorgeous!
added Oct 1, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Calling in animals of all kinds, every beautiful page of this book is a chance for children to identify animal names and body parts, reinforcing their vocabulary. The simple, bold and large-print... read more |
| Thomas, Jan | Can You Make a Scary Face?
added Oct 1, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: This book, about a ladybug and a giant, hungry frog, is a great storytime read. The book offers plenty of opportunities for the kids to get up and act silly. The interactive nature of the book pr... read more |
| Andreasen, Dan | The Treasure Bath
added Sep 30, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Making a cake can get messy. The unnamed boy in this book splatters batter all over himself and his mom gives him a bath. The adventure begins when this little boy imagines what happens underwater. Th...read more |
| Prap, Lila | Animal Lullabies
added Sep 22, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: A vibrant, colorful book featuring bedtime poems told by mother animals to their babies. The rhyming text and animal sounds help build phonological awareness while moving fluidly from one animal ... read more |
| McGhee, Alison | Always
added Sep 19, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: You won’t ALWAYS have to explain the unusual words in this book, but you probably should discuss a few of them, like avalanche and intruders, divert and meteors, the first time you read thi... read more |
| Andreae, Giles | Giraffes Can't Dance
added Sep 19, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: As someone who can’t dance herself, I loved the message that anyone can dance once they find the music that’s right for them. The rhyming text adds to the overall rhythm-enhancing, ph... read more |
| Lorig, Steffanie | Such a Silly Baby!
added Sep 19, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: If your listeners like to chime in with ever-longer repetitive phrases, they will love speaking for the silly baby, who learns something new every time he gets lost: Yee haw, snort snort, oink oi... read more |
| Hubery, Julia | A Friend for All Seasons
added Sep 17, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Old Father Oak's leaves are falling. Is he crying? Robbie the Raccoon enlists the help of his friends to "hug our hugest hug and sing our happiest song!" Julia Hubery's story fo... read more |
| MacDonald, Suse | A Was Once an Apple Pie
added Sep 17, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Wow! An explosion of rhymes! Each letter of the alphabet is followed by a short poem and accompanied by a bright illustration. The words bounce along with an irresistibly catchy rhythm and childr... read more |
| Wax, Wendy (Wendy Anne) | Even Firefighters Go to the Potty
added Sep 5, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Clang! Clang! Where did the firetruck driver go? To the potty! Invite your listeners to join you in saying “to the potty” when you inquire about the whereabouts of each missing worker... read more |
| Gay, Marie-Louise. | When Stella Was Very Very Small
added Sep 5, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Stella’s world delights the senses, with wonderful art, luscious onomatoepeia (ferocious, slithering, buzzed), and the universal story of a child’s world changing as she grows. Compelling illustratio...read more |
| Numberman, Neil. | Do Not Build a Frankenstein!
added Sep 2, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: The title says it all! Building a Frankenstein causes one young boy to lose all of his friends, pets, toys, even his privacy. This book is an excellent choice for developing early literacy skills beca...read more |
| Fitzkee, Jeremy. | One Two Three Me
added Aug 20, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: With its quirky illustrations, simple text and clever wordplay, this book is a surefire storytime hit. Children love to guess the “punchlines” in this story, and the rhymes and pictures will help the...read more |
| Rueda, Claudia | Let's Play in the Forest While the Wolf is Not Around
added Aug 14, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Even though the wolf gets bigger, hungrier and scarier on every page in this story, children will find out that the scary wolf is not so scary, after all. With its clean pages, simple drawings an... read more |
| Ahlberg, Janet. | Each Peach Pear Plum
added Aug 13, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Playing "I spy" is a great way for adults to help children develop their vocabulary and phonological awareness skills. (I spy something red. I spy something t... read more |
| Burleigh, Robert. | Clang-clang! Beep-beep! Listen to the City
added Aug 12, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Sounds are so much fun to make and with the many sounds of the city, one could sing along with them all day. The book Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City, does exactly this; highl... read more |
| De Muth, Roger, | Dinner for Eight
added Aug 11, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: It is time for a dinner party, but what do you serve when your guests are a kangaroo, a squirrel, and other wild animals? Octopus knows what to do! His eight tentacles are able to whip-up eight v... read more |
| Luthardt, Kevin. | Flying
added Aug 7, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: In this simply worded story, a young boy asks his father the classic question: “why?” Many of the pages of this book are wordless, which invites children to use their imagination to tell their own ve...read more |
| Ransom, Candice F., 1952- | The Old Blue Pickup Truck
added Aug 7, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: In this story of a girl and her father running errands in their pickup truck, dialogical reading is a great way to get children involved. Although this quiet book has simple prose, there is a lot... read more |
| Docherty, Thomas | Little Boat
added Jul 31, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: In this story, the little boat sails past giant sea monsters, around icebergs and through the dangerous sea. Children are motivated to read by experiencing books to which they can relate. Be... read more |
| Dodd, Emma | I Don't Want a Posh Dog
added Jul 21, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Anyone who has observed dogs knows that there are distinct dog personalities. For instance, there is the snappy, growly dog or the snooty, attitudey dog. In I don’t want a posh dog! ... read more |
| Bynum, Janie | Kiki's Blankie
added Jul 11, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: Kiki’s story jumps off the page and into your heart, promoting narrative skills two ways: 1) Preschoolers know what it’s like to have a blanket or toy that helps them be brave, and 2) They have a ...read more |
| Arrou-Vignod, Jean-Philippe | Rita and Whatsit at the Beach
added Jul 11, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: What do you like to do at the beach? I like to read good books. Whatsit likes to eat sugary foods. Ask your listeners what they like to do. Remember to give children plenty of time for three part... read more |
| Cleminson, Katie | Magic Box : a Magical Story
added Jul 10, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Eva has a wild imagination that she puts to good use when she receives a special present on her birthday. This fun book is great to share with young children because the sparse text allows a lot ... read more |
| Hoberman, Mary Ann | It's Simple, Said Simon
added Jul 9, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: It’s simple to have fun reading this book! Start by telling your listeners that you would like their help with the reading. Every time you find the phrase, “it&rsquo...read more |
| Ziefert, Harriet | You and Me: We're Opposites
added Jul 1, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: How are the animals in the zoo different from one another? In this simple, accessible picture book, author Harriet Ziefert showcases the basic answers to these questions while also maintain... read more |
| Baker, Keith | Just How Long Can a Long String Be?!
added Jun 30, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Who would have thought that a little piece of string could be used for so many things? Follow Bird as he shows the reader that a piece of string can pull down a shade, turn on a light or hold on ... read more |
| Urban, Linda | Mouse Was Mad
added Jun 25, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Mouse isn't just mad, he is hopping mad. We can all relate to that, right? While children are no strangers to feelings of anger, they need help in naming and expressing their emotions.... read more |
| Smith, Danna | Two at the Zoo
added Jun 13, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: “I’m taking Grandpa to the zoo. Two red tickets let us through.” This cheerful book will help your child develop his or her phonological sensitivity with its rhyming words. When... read more |
| O'Leary, Sara | When You Were Small
added Jun 1, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Anything can happen in the wonderful world of imagination. Sara O’Leary’s When You Were Small, will spark the imagination of all by creatively answering the question often aske... read more |
| Walton, Rick | Bunnies On the Go : Getting from Place to Place
added May 29, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Jumping from a hot air balloon into a boat, then straight on to their bikes? Extreme vacation! The bunny family travels far, and has many ways to get from here to there. Guess which mode of trans... read more |
| Saltzberg, Barney | Cornelius P. Mud are You Ready for Baby?
added May 29, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Readers, are you ready for your listeners to help you read a fun book with great pictures? When Cornelius asks if his new baby brother can play, prompt them to read his mother’s response, &... read more |
| Darbyshire, Kristen | Put it On the List
added May 20, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: If it's not on the list, there's no guarantee that Mom will buy what you need when she goes to the store. During one challenging week, the family is left to eat pancakes with ket... read more |
| Fox, Mem | Hello Baby!
added May 19, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Picture books help expand a child’s vocabulary because they often contain words that we may not use in our daily language. Mem Fox’s marvelous book, Hello Baby! is no exception with...read more |
| Hamilton, K. R. (Kersten R.) | Police Officers On Patrol
added May 13, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: "People need help! Let's rock and roll!" Join Sergeant Santole, Officers Mike, Jan and Carl as they head out on crime patrol. Hamilton's energetic rhyming ... read more |
| Booth, Philip E. | Crossing
added May 12, 2009
Skills featured: VocabularyLetter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Choo! Choo! STOP LOOK LISTEN warns the first page. You can encourage children to stand and pantomine stopping, looking, and listening, as you remind them of what they should do every time they cr... read more |
| Foley, Greg E. | Good Luck Bear
added May 12, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: You are lucky to have found this lighthearted pleasant story of friends searching for a four leaf clover. Before you identify an animal friend, stop and ask your audience to name it, practicing t... read more |
| Yolen, Jane | Hoptoad
added May 12, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Will toad be left a grease spot on the road? Find out fast, in this dramatic, but short, story. Once you’ve read the story, ask your listeners to “read” it to you to increase th... read more |
| Vagin, Vladimir Vasilevich | The Enormous Carrot
added May 12, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: After you read The Enormous Carrot, you and your listeners may want to enjoy your own carrot feast. Or, plant a carrot or sunflower seed together, and watch it grow. Giving children multi-sensory... read more |
| Stevens, Janet. | Tops Bottoms
added May 12, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Before you read Tops and Bottoms, you may want to talk about a hare being a rabbit or bunny, and read the story of the tortoise and the hare. Hare’s racing loss is what motivates him to tri... read more |
| Puttock, Simon | Yours Truly Louisa
added May 12, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Disgruntled, sulked, a greasy spoon. Before you start this FUN story, you may want to define some of the unusual vocabulary words. As you read, you can highlight print awareness skills by asking ... read more |
| Gilman, Phoebe | Something from Nothing
added May 9, 2009
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| Taback, Simms | Simms Taback's City Animals
added May 7, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Kids love the Animal Guessing game and the book City Animals puts this fun game into book format. What has a collar, a tag, and says woof? Children will delight in expressing their animal ... read more |
| Rosenthal, Amy Krouse | Spoon
added Apr 29, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Little Spoon is bent out of shape these days. It seems that all the other utensils have more fun, exciting jobs than he does. But while Knife may have the privilege of cutting and spr... read more |
| Root, Phyllis | Flip Flap Fly!
added Apr 28, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Who can resists this spring time book about babies and their mamas? Pastel paintings of chirping birds, sliding otters, and zig-zagging snakes accompany a great story penned by local au... read more |
| Van Fleet, Matthew | Cat
added Apr 23, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Meow! Meow! WOW! Look at all these cats! What are they doing? You will find cool cats and copycats, bald cats, alley cats and a delightful variety of over forty furry feline friends engaged in so... read more |
| Beaumont, Karen | Doggone Dogs!
added Apr 20, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Naughty dogs can be so much fun, though perhaps not for the owner of the ten dogs in the book Doggone Dogs. Ten wild dogs go on quite the adventure after escaping their leashes. No dog adv... read more |
| Prelutsky, Jack. | If Not for the Cat
added Apr 18, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: “Raucously we caw. Your straw men do not fool us. We burgle your corn.” Your listeners will be jumping out of their seats, I’m a crow! Caw! Caw! Expert paintings spill across th... read more |
| Horvath, David | Just Like Bossy Bear
added Apr 18, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Let us never forget to lead by example. This is the very lesson Bossy Bear learns as his best friend, Turtle, begins to pick up his bossy habits. In an attempt to emulate BB, Turtle c... read more |
| Young, Ed | Seven Blind Mice
added Apr 18, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: This simple yet striking rendering of the the Blind Men and the Elephant is ideal for reading to toddlers and preschoolers working on their counting and colors and days of the week, as well as ol... read more |
| Paolilli, Paul | Silver Seeds
added Apr 18, 2009
Skills featured: VocabularyLetter Knowledge Presentation Notes: In acrostic poetry, the first letter of each line forms a word or phrase. Because the acrostic format is so concrete, it’s an easy form of poetry for children to write and appreciate. In Si... read more |
| Broach, Elise | When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
added Apr 18, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Narrative skills grow by reading books children can relate to. They also grow with compelling stories that children can and want to retell. Starting with an activity most American chil... read more |
| Dunbar, Polly | Where's Tumpty
added Apr 18, 2009
Skills featured: Vocabulary Presentation Notes: As Tumpty tries to hide from his friends, your listeners will get a vocabulary work out. He hides upside down, behind a plant, under a box, with his eyes tightly closed. Your listeners can put th... read more |
| Coffelt, Nancy | Big, Bigger, Biggest!
added Apr 11, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: A hippopotamus is big. A killer whale is bigger. A dinosaur is biggest! Kids and parents alike will delight in this vocabulary-rich book filled with synonyms and adjectives. Nancy Coffelt’s... read more |
| Ziefert, Harriet | A Bunny is Funny
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Make one mad And you’ll smell bad Bet you’d never thunk You stink like a skunk The rhyming text offers lots of opportunities for your listeners to develop phonological sensitivity, fi... read more |
| Shields, Carol Diggory | Food Fight!
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Pull out Food Fight when you are reading to a group that includes older children and adults; this is a book to be “relished” on many levels. “This place is the pits!” the ... read more |
| Carlow, Emma | Kitty Princess and the Newspaper Dress
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: After you’ve read Kitty Princess, your children will be able to use the pictures to “read” the story to you, practicing their narrative skills. You can also help make the story ... read more |
| Elliott, David | Knitty Kitty
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: “Clickety-click. Tickety-tick. Knitty Kitty sits and knits.” It’s an onomatopoeia feast reinforcing phonological sensitivity! You can help the story come to life (a narrative skill) ...read more |
| Chwast, Seymour | She Sells Sea Shells
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: VocabularyLetter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Each page holds a single, silly, tongue twister. For example: The merry moose of Manitoba wears moccasins from Minnetonka. Selma went swimming in her swell swimsuit. Bears are bored by bloated bo... read more |
| Parr, Todd | The I Love You Book
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: As you read The I Love You Book, listeners can practice their narrative skills, making the story real, by acting out each phrase. “I love you when you are silly, sad, scared, brave, away, u... read more |
| Donaldson, Julia | The Snail and the Whale
added Apr 9, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: The rhyming title is only the beginning! Rhyming text will strengthen your listeners’ phonological sensitivity. If you hesitate and nod, you can encourage your listeners to chime in on the ... read more |
| Sheilds, Carol Diggory | Wombat Walkabout
added Apr 8, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: On a sunny day down under, six woolly wombats take a morning constitutional, or as it's known in Australia, a walkabout. But when Dingo spots the tasty little critters, they begin disap... read more |
| Mickelson, Scott | Artichoke Boy
added Apr 2, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: This goofy story is about a boy who loves artichokes so much that he sees them everywhere—from his “artichoke elbows and artichoke knees… and make-believe friends—the art... read more |
| Arnold, Tedd | Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was her Name
added Apr 2, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: This silly book from Tedd Arnold, illustrated with trademark artwork by Tedd, is based on a traditional camp song, and can be sung instead of read (the music is on the last page). Meet Catalina M... read more |
| Dokas, Dara | Muriel's Red Sweater
added Apr 2, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: Oh, no! Muriel's birthday party is tonight, and she forgot to mail the invitations! She quickly gets dressed in her favorite red sweater and sets out to hand deliver the invitations. As she t... read more |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | Some Babies are Wild
added Mar 27, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: "Some babies are light and some are dark. Some eat bright berries and some munch on bark." Every once in awhile, a simple and straightforward text -perfect for learning new vocabular... read more |
| Rosenthal, Amy Krouse | Duck! Rabbit!
added Mar 25, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Is it a duck? Is it a rabbit? This book is perfect for a spring or Easter-themed storytime, and the story works great as a two-person read-aloud. Its dueling voices squabble about the age-old rabbi...read more |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | Hello Ocean!
added Mar 25, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: The senses come alive in Pam Munoz Ryan's tale of adventure at the beach. As one little girl opens herself up to the scene around her, her descriptions create a feeling of reality for t... read more |
| Pilkey, Dav | Kat Kong
added Mar 25, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Beware, this takeoff on the King Kong movie, Kat Kong, was “rated” TS, Terribly Silly and these programming notes give away the end of the story. Clear your throat and warm up your mo... read more |
| Scotton, Rob | Love Splat
added Mar 25, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Love, Splat has a great story, and even better pictures! Images are primarily in black and shades of gray; a few objects in brilliant color on every page POP. Use the artwork to hel...read more |
| Golson, Terry Blonder | Tillie Lays an Egg
added Mar 25, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Read the book and see the movie! Catch the live action at the hen house where Tillie lays her eggs at www.hencam.com. Viewing the chickens and henhouse may help children internalize the story, re... read more |
| Ehlert, Lois | Top Cat
added Mar 25, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: “Boring job! Never see a mouse. Nothing much happens in this dull house.” Top Cat speaks in rhyming text, the top cat of phonological awareness. Before you begin reading, you can invite yo...read more |
| Bergman, Mara | Yum Yum! What Fun!
added Mar 24, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: "Clump, stump, clump, stump." Can you guess what animal makes this noise? It's a camel, and your child will have a lot of fun guessing what animal is sneaking through the window by ... read more |
| Paul, Ann Whitford | Hello Toes! Hello Feet!
added Mar 19, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: It's a busy day for one bouncy little girl. With the help of her eager toes and feet, she finds adventure while clomping down the hall, jumping over the rocks and squishing in the mud.&... read more |
| Crow, Kristyn | Cool Daddy Rat
added Mar 13, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Did you know that rats can scat? Well, it’s a fact. Daddy Rat shooby dooby doo’s throughout this jazzy book and is joined in the end by a surprise guest! The scat beats make it imposs... read more |
| Miller, Virginia | Ten Red Apples
added Mar 11, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Perfect for toddler or preschool storytime, Bartholomew's story is simple, but not without its delights for slightly older children. As each new apple ripens on the tree, ask your audie... read more |
| Black, Michael Ian | Chicken Cheeks
added Mar 6, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: “Penguin patootie, polar bear derriere, turkey tushy, gnu wazoo.” Phonological sensitivity and vocabulary skills grow exponentially as the silly synonyms slide across the pages, alter... read more |
| Cottin, Menena | The Black Book of Colors
added Mar 6, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: With its black on black textured pages, Braille embossing and white printed text, this dramatic book will change the way you see the world, giving you and the children you read to a “glimps... read more |
| Henkes, Kevin. | Birds
added Mar 4, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: There is something elegant and poetic about Kevin Henkes' prose. His word choices are simple and the situations are not necessarily out-of-the-ordinary. But his admiration for the... read more |
| Jocelyn, Marthe | Same Same
added Feb 27, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: To instill a love of learning in your child, share a book that allows for your child to participate. Same Same is a great participatory book because it shows a variety of pictures and stat... read more |
| Carluccio, Maria | The Sounds Around Town
added Feb 27, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Ding, Dong! (What was that?) Splish, Splash! (Who was that?) Clatter, clatter! (Have you ever heard such a sound in your town?) A busy... read more |
| Newbery, Linda | Posy!
added Feb 25, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: There is a vicious rumor afoot that cats do nothing but lie around the house. Not so! protests Linda Newberry. Take Posy, for instance. Her days are filled with activity and she... read more |
| Himmelman, John | Katie Loves the Kittens
added Feb 18, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Poor Katie! She adores her owner's kittens, but in expressing her delight, she continually scares away her would-be friends with her boisterous "Aroooooo!"&nbs... read more |
| McEvoy, Anne | Betsy B. Little
added Feb 16, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: The only thing small about Betsy B. Little is her name. Betsy’s height makes it difficult jump rope, ice skate, and even ride the school bus. But, Betsy’s height does not keep her from dreaming. So...read more |
| Portis, Antoinette | A Penguin Story
added Feb 13, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: A little penguin goes off in search of something different. Will she find it? As in Not a Box and Not a Stick, Portis uses bold lines and simple storytelling of this story of Edna t... read more |
| Cousins, Lucy | Hooray for Fish!
added Feb 13, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Get ready to wave hello, clap your hands and shout hooray! Little Fish has a wonderful day meeting and greeting his friends from around the ocean, and what a diverse group of friends! ... read more |
| Isadora, Rachel | Peekaboo Bedtime
added Feb 13, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Peekaboo is a great game for preschoolers, and this colorful book follows a toddler as he plays peekaboo with family members and objects around the house. The repeating words found in this... read more |
| Garriel, Barbara S. | I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello
added Feb 11, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: In this goofy adaptation of “I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly,” a shy fellow swallows a cello, a harp, a sax, and a fiddle, among others. Children will be familiar with the tune, and this new ...read more |
| Paul, Ann Whitford | If Animals Kissed Good Night--
added Feb 11, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: In this charming, peaceful children's book, author Ann Paul Whitford takes animal behaviors we know and applies them to an oft-pondered situation, "How would animals kiss good night?&quo... read more |
| Frazier, Craig | Hank Finds Inspiration
added Feb 7, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: When Stanley the Human notices his boring yard, he remarks to his friend, Hank the Snake, "We need some inspiration, Hank. That'll fix things." Intriguing! But whe... read more |
| Wellington, Monica | Mr. Cookie Baker
added Feb 6, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Calling all cookie lovers! It's time to get ready for a behind-the-scenes trip to the bakery! This fun and simple story tells readers about the process it takes to bake and sell co... read more |
| Thomas, Jan | Rhyming Dust Bunnies
added Feb 6, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Oh, that silly Bob. He does not yet know that "Look out! Here comes a big scary monster with a broom" does not rhyme with hog, log or fog. It's a good thing that fellow dust bunnies... read more |
| Dunbar, Polly | Hello Tilly
added Feb 2, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Come and play with Tilly and friends. They sure know how to have fun! They sing, dance, eat, and of course read. Listen as Tilly’s band goes “Rooty-toot-toot” and “Boom! B... read more |
| Yaccarino, Dan | Every Friday
added Jan 27, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: Friday is a great day, because on Fridays, our protagonist gets to spend time with his dad. The routine of leaving early, looking around and stopping at the diner is one of utmost importanc... read more |
| Donaldson, Julia | One Ted Falls Out of Bed
added Jan 23, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: A rhyming counting book with energetic illustrations AND a plot! You can use the book to enhance narrative skills by having children act out some of the action, such as “they roar around in four fast ...read more |
| Fenton, Joe | What's Under the Bed?
added Jan 13, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: This fun and slightly scary story begs a dramatic narration from the reader: "Does it have long nails? Could it have two tails? Oh, I hope it's been fed! Or it might eat my bed!&quo... read more |
| Henkes, Kevin | Old Bear
added Jan 10, 2009
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: As Old Bear dreams about the seasons, each season is depicted emphasizing different colors. The colors are named in the text, which itself changes color with each shift in Old Bear’s dream.... read more |
| Cronin, Doreen | Bounce
added Jan 9, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: It's true that children need no incentives to get up and bounce. But did you know there is a protocol involved in achieving the best possible bouncing? Enjoy Doreen Cronin's a... read more |
| Guarino, Deborah. | Is Your Mama a Llama?
added Jan 6, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: When the loveable character Lloyd the baby llama makes his rounds, many different animals are introduced through infectious rhymes. Build vocabulary skills by asking the children the different na... read more |
| Berger, Carin | The Little Yellow Leaf
added Jan 4, 2009
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: The snow is falling and all of the trees are bare. But look, there is one little yellow leaf left hanging on the tree! Carin Berger’s elegant book follows one little yellow leaf as it cling... read more |
| Sharratt, Nick | The Foggy Foggy Forest
added Jan 3, 2009
Skills featured: Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Using vellum pages to create a foggy, indistinct forest of silhouetted characters, this book shows classic fairy tale characters doing silly, surprising and very uncharacteristic actions.&nb... read more |
| Walton, Rick | How Can You Dance?
added Jan 2, 2009
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Playful illustrations, coupled with short, rhyming verses about different situations and emotions and dances that go with them, make this book a great preschool read-aloud. It will get kids... read more |
| Schwarz, Viviane | There are Cats in this Book
added Dec 22, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Meoooow! It seems hard to image that a book could be as playful as three cats, but this story pulls it off purr-fectly. Children are introduced to three curious cats who are excited to have a hum... read more |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Mighty Max
added Dec 20, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: He's not Superman. Or King Kong. Or Evel Knieval. He's Mighty Max! And he can save the day! As seen through the eyes of one fearless little boy, the world is... read more |
| Donaldson, Julia | The Gruffalo
added Dec 20, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Strolling, rumbling, bursting, Gruffalo serves up a vocabulary feast, overflowing with onomatopoeia and other fun words that roll off the tongue and create lively images. You don’t have to ... read more |
| Kido, Yukiko | Wet Pet
added Dec 20, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Flip-a-word books will have your listeners shouting out responses and giggling wildly; phonological sensitivity and letter knowledge have never been this fun! As you read the book the first few t... read more |
| Garland, Michael | Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
added Dec 13, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: This book vividly shows that a story, or narrative, has parts. Zack’s new teacher, Miss Smith, is one of those incredible story readers who can transport her listeners completely. When she ... read more |
| Stojic, Manya | Snow
added Dec 10, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: All of the forest animals sense the coming winter weather in this colorful picture book. The geese gather together to fly south. Bear settles down for a long winter nap. And mama hare snuggl... read more |
| Doyle, Charlotte | The Bouncing, Dancing, Galloping ABC
added Dec 9, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: It's playtime and, as the title suggests, Charlotte Doyle's rhyming text fairly bounces off the page in bursts of exuberance. Unlike some ABC books, this story presents each le... read more |
| Steffensmeier, Alexander | Millie in the Snow
added Dec 8, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Millie is no ordinary cow. Millie is a mail cow and even on Christmas the mail needs to be delivered. But, the adventure really begins when Millie finishes her delivery and tries to find her way ... read more |
| Krebs, Laurie | Up and Down the Andes: A Peruvian Festival Tale
added Dec 8, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Take a trip to the mountains of Peru. This beautiful book, with bold colors and rich illustrations, will take your listeners to another world. Up and Down the Andes describes the Incan Fes... read more |
| Cleary, Brian P. | Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book
added Dec 6, 2008
Skills featured: VocabularyLetter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Red raspberry rivers? Kilt-wearing kittens? Birch trees with bubblegum bark? Oh, how silly! The playful rhymes and equally playful artwork set the tone for this delightful alphabet book. En... read more |
| Calmenson, Stephanie | Jazzmatazz!
added Dec 4, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: During the time of year when city and country mice come in from the cold winter weather, wouldn't it be great if they kicked off a jazz set while warming up inside your house? That's exac... read more |
| Schories, Pat | Jack Wants a Snack
added Nov 26, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Poor Jack, all he wants is a little piece of popcorn. In this wordless picture book, dog Jack wants to join in the fun of his owner’s tea party and most importantly the food. But as th... read more |
| McClements, George | Night of the Veggie Monster
added Nov 26, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Warning: this book contains graphic images. In truth, the transformation of a sweet little boy into a ranting, raving veggie monster is not a sight for sensitive viewers. Maybe his pa... read more |
| Alda, Arlene | Did You Say Pears?
added Nov 25, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Photographs of real objects combined with wordplay makes this a fun book for preschoolers and their caretakers. Words such as trunk are illustrated with photos of a birchwood and an elepha... read more |
| Boswell, Addie K. | The Rain Stomper
added Nov 20, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Put on your dancing shoes and get out your baton, it's the day of the big parade! But when Jazmin opens the door she hears the SLAP clatter clatter SLAP of the rain, and the BOOM wa... read more |
| Hest, Amy. | Don't You Feel Well Sam?
added Nov 19, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: With flu season upon us, enjoy a book that is warm and soothing as a cup of chicken soup. Sam's descent into illness is told with care as author Amy Hest focuses on the sorts of details... read more |
| Stoeke, Janet Morgan. | It's Library Day
added Nov 15, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: A diverse group of children are all excited about going to their school library when the day arrives. This short tale about the children heading to the library to hear a story is told in rhy... read more |
| Roberts, Bethany | Thanksgiving Mice!
added Nov 14, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: "Raise the anchor! Set the sails! To America we go!" A great introduction to Thanksgiving for preschoolers, this book features bright illustrations of cute little mice in pilgrim costum... read more |
| Hanson, Warren | Bugtown Boogie
added Nov 13, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: When a boy stumbles upon a magical door that leads to a Bugtown Boogie, you're invited to join in on the extravaganza by making insect noises, repeating the refrain, and enjoying the vivid an... read more |
| Ahlberg, Allan | The Pencil
added Nov 13, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: The Pencil illustrates and expands Narrative Skills in three ways, by starring a common object that children have experienced, by enticing children to review the bold pictures and retell t... read more |
| Thomas, Jan | A Birthday for Cow!
added Nov 12, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Jan Thomas's expressive picture books are a master class in detail. The illustrations nearly jump off the page at the reader and it is from these pictures that children become mesmerize... read more |
| Shea, Bob | Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
added Nov 12, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: What happens when a scary dinosaur faces off against everyday experiences like brushing teeth and eating spaghetti? “Dinosaur Wins!” Though, there is one battle that even a scary dino... read more |
| Diesen, Deborah | The Pout-Pout Fish
added Nov 12, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: What cheers you up when you feel like sulking, moping, or scowling? Mr. Fish believes he is destined to be glum, and although his friends try to cheer him up there is nothing he can do but "... read more |
| Mora, Pat | Yum! Mmmm! Qué Rico! : Americas' Sproutings
added Nov 4, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Pat Mora offers a celebration of food glorious food in this vibrant, festive picture book. The author presents each item in succinct haiku, with foods ranging from the ordinary (peanut... read more |
| Metaxas, Eric | It's Time to Sleep My Love
added Nov 1, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Here’s a whimsical picture book that would be great to cuddle up with before bed. In this story, panda bears, otters, turtledoves and other animals get ready for bed. The illustrator’... read more |
| Anderson, Peggy Perry | Chuck's Band
added Oct 31, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: With bright illustrations and rollicking text, Chuck’s Band is a great introduction to many farm animals and instruments, which builds vocabulary skills. Reminiscent of “Old Ma... read more |
| Wilcox, Leah | Falling for Rapunzel
added Oct 31, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Like Waking Beauty, Leah Wilcox has taken a classic fairy tale and put a clever spin on it. This hilarious tale of misunderstanding is told in rhyming couplets, which allows children to an... read more |
| Allen, Jonathan | The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say Moo
added Oct 29, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Even though little rabbits don't have a big noise of their own, they sure know how to have fun making their favorite farmyard noises. This Little Rabbit particularly loves to say a great big ... read more |
| Brown, Ruth | A Dark, Dark Tale
added Oct 28, 2008
Skills featured: Print Motivation Presentation Notes: This short, simple, and somewhat gothic story is of the journey of a black cat and builds on a mystery of what will happen at the end of the story. Fog, shadows and light are perfectly captured i... read more |
| Wilcox, Leah | Waking Beauty
added Oct 28, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Everyone knows how to wake up a princess… don’t they?! Nearly every page in Waking Beauty offers children the opportunity for interactive fun, whether it’s through guess... read more |
| Lobel, Anita | Hello, Day!
added Oct 27, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Rise and shine, it is time to greet the day! Animals have their own special way of greeting the day, each one different from the next. Children will have fun guessing the way each animal says Hello Da...read more |
| Rodriguez, Edel | Sergio Makes a Splash
added Sep 2, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Sergio loves the water. He feels a range of emotions when he's around water: relaxed, playful, happy...and scared. You see, Sergio can't swim. Children are inherently drawn to the friendl... read more |
| Bernheimer, Kate | The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum
added Aug 27, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Arguably the most challenging early literacy skill to promote is print motivation. How can we make kids genuinely excited about books? One method is to create a world so visually enchanting that ... read more |
| Vyner, Sue | Swim for Cover: Adventure on the Coral Reef
added Aug 21, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: In this suspenseful story the octopus warns all the sea creatures that she passes as she heads for her den. It's a wonderful chance to learn the names of creatures of the coral reef and somet... read more |
| Hayes, Sarah | Dog Day
added Aug 16, 2008
Skills featured: Presentation Notes: Ben and Ella learn that their new teacher is a dog named Rif, who teaches them to dig and bark and wag their tails. Your listeners can bring the story to life if you invite them to dig and bark a... read more |
| Willems, Mo | The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!
added Aug 16, 2008
Skills featured: Presentation Notes: Readers and listeners will enjoy the dramatic pigeon's demands and pleas for a puppy. Your listeners' print motivation will be enhanced when you read with emotion and show your enjoyment ... read more |
| Lear, Edward | The Owl and the Pussycat
added Aug 15, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: There are many versions of this book available, not only because of the whimsical, romantic poem by Edward Lear but also because illustrators seem to be drawn to this story. This version is illustrate...read more |
| Crimi, Carolyn | Where's My Mummy?
added Aug 15, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Little Baby Mummy wants to play one more game of Hide and Shriek before bedtime, but he hides a bit too well. While looking desperately for Big Mamma Mummy, he meets a succession of night c... read more |
| Macken, JoAnn Early | Flip, Float, Fly : Seeds on the Move
added Aug 14, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: From dandelions, to maple trees, to tumbleweeds, coconuts, and more! seeds are on the move! Follow them! Whee! as they Flip, Flutter, Float! and ROLL, ROLL, ROLL. Listen, and build Phonological A... read more |
| Roosa, Karen | Beach Day
added Aug 9, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Waves lapping, sails snapping. What could be more fun than a day at the beach? From early morning arrival to late day trek across the dunes, one family's perfect day is captured in buoyant verse a...read more |
| Cuyler, Margery | Monster Mess!
added Aug 8, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Yawn, yawn! A sleepy monster heads upstairs to get some rest, only to find a boy fast asleep in a very messy, stinky room. Piu, piu! Ick, ick! How can he possibly get any sleep unless he neatens thing...read more |
| Tankard, Jeremy | Grumpy Bird
added Aug 6, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: Bird may wake up grumpy, but as he soon discovers, good friends have a way of turning a bad day around. Repetition is one of the cornerstones of strong narrative skills and author Jeremy Tankard makes...read more |
| Manning, Mick | Snap
added Aug 5, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Snap is a progressive story that starts with a fly and ends with a bear, with each eater being eaten with a snap. You can enhance your listeners' print awareness by pointing to the word SNAP ... read more |
| Baddiel, Ivor | Cock-a-Doodle Quack! Quack!
added Aug 5, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: "Once upon a time there was a baby rooster. It was his job to wake everybody up in the morning, but he didn't know how. He didn't know what to say." When he imitates the pigs, and cows and duc...read more |
| Wilson, Karma | Hilda Must be Dancing
added Aug 5, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Hilda the hippo will dance her way into your heart as she experiments with a variety of forms of artistic expression that cause the jungle floor to quake and big tidal waves in the lake. The rhyming t...read more |
| Beaumont, Karen | Who Ate All the Cookie Dough?
added Aug 5, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: If you didn't eat all the cookie dough, who did? Lion, zebra, llama, cheetah, hippo or monkey? After identifying each new potential suspect, listeners like to chime in with the reader, "Do you ...read more |
| Horacek, Petr | Look Out Suzy Goose
added Jul 31, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Suzy Goose needs a little peace and quiet from all of the "honk, honk, honking" of her friends. She takes a walk in the woods to be alone. But she isn't alone for long when a fox, a... read more |
| Emmett, Jonathan | She'll be Coming 'round the Mountain
added Jul 29, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: There's gonna be a special visitor, and she's coming 'round the mountain when she comes! Anticipation builds, and Narrative Skills are stretched by this twist on the familiar cumulati... read more |
| Geist, Ken | The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark
added Jul 29, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: When the three little fish Tim, Jim, and Kim set out to make their own ways in the world, they don't reckon on the Big, Bad Shark! After he munches and crunches Tim's house mad... read more |
| Kirk, Daniel | Humpty Dumpty
added Jul 26, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall... Here is the new version to Humpty Dumpty's great fall. Humpty goes to town with his friends to watch King Moe's birthday parade. ...read more |
| Bell, Babs | Sputter, Sputter, Sput
added Jul 23, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Gas makes your car go, but what happens when you run out? "Sputter! Sputter! Sput!" Car stops you need more gas. Children will delight in making the car sounds of this book as cars zoom... read more |
| Sierra, Judy | Thelonius Monster's Sky-high Fly Pie
added Jul 19, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Thelonius Monster experiences all the essential phases of creativity while making his high-fly pie: inspiration, hard work, and doubt. Judy Sierra's story is told in "revolting rhyme" (read the ti...read more |
| Sutton, Sally | Roadwork
added Jul 18, 2008
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Summer in Minnesota means time for roadwork. Although this may make inconveniences for adults, children love the big earthmoving machines that are brought out to build and repair roads. Captivate this...read more |
| London, Jonathan | A Train Goes Clickety-clack
added Jul 16, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Start with a subject kids love, add bold, colorful illustrations, throw in fun text and you have a hit for storytime! Jonathan London's train comes alive as it goes "chugga-chugga,"... read more |
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Do Your Ears Hang Low? : a Love Story
added Jul 16, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Do-o-o-o your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you time them in a bow? Warning: Read ? or better yet, sing ? this silly camp song turned pictur...read more | |
| Willems, Mo | Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct
added Jul 15, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie knows that dinosaurs are extinct(a vocabulary word that is experienced a number of times in the book) but he can't get anyone to listen to him. Reginald's frustratio...read more |
| Foreman, Michael | The Littlest Dinosaur
added Jul 15, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: This book gives a whole new perspective on dinosaurs. Various types of dinosaurs, none of them longer (or taller)than 13 feet, are drawn doing everyday things: using a diving board, playing a bass vio...read more |
| Lund, Deb | All Aboard the Dinotrain
added Jul 11, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: A fantastic tale by Deb Lund describes how dinosaurs take a dramatic train ride. Phonological sensitivity comes into play not only through the rhyming scheme, but through the many uses of "dino" as a ...read more |
| Grossman, Bill. | My Little Sister Ate One Hare
added Jul 9, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: A counting book that talks about swallowing slimy creatures, regurgitation and ants' underpants?! This one's sure to be a hit. With it's cumulative rhyme and humorous illustrations, the st...read more |
| Bechtold, Lisze | Sally and the Purple Socks
added Jul 9, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: At the cusp of winter, Sally receives a box with two warm, fuzzy, beautiful purple socks. There is only one problem: they are too small! Fortunately, these magic socks are said to grow to the siz... read more |
| Peters, Lisa Westberg | When the Fly Flew In . . .
added Jul 8, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: "'I can't clean my room,' a child whispered to his mother. 'All the animals are sleeping.'" And so the child got out of cleaning his room, but then the fly flew in. ... read more |
| Spinelli, Eileen | Heat Wave
added Jul 2, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Before air conditioners came to be, the townspeople of Lumberville had to be creative in dealing with a heat wave. Lottie Mims takes a nap with cold tea bags on her eyes. Mr. Blue shaves off his ... read more |
| Sherry, Kevin | I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
added Jun 25, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Meet the Giant Squid, the biggest thing in the ocean! Or is he? Kevin Sherry's colorful, humorous tale is always engaging and fun. Ask your audience if they know the names of the different fi... read more |
| Schwartz, Amy | A Beautiful Girl
added Jun 21, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: When Jenna meets an elephant, he says, you're a funny elephant with a funny trunk. Do you use it to squirt water on your back and hold onto your mother's tail? Jenna gets to compare her n... read more |
| Rabe, Tish | On Beyond Bugs!
added Jun 21, 2008
Skills featured: Presentation Notes: Here's a fact about flies read moreThat we both thought was icky .They can walk upside down Since their feet are so sticky Rhyming text increases listeners' phonologica... |
| Carle, Eric | The Rabbit and the Turtle : Aesop's Fables
added Jun 21, 2008
Skills featured: Presentation Notes: This beautifully written compilation of eleven fables offers opportunities for narrative skills practice, discussing the plot and meaning of the stories, as well as many new vocabulary words. The stor...read more |
| Mitton, Tony | Playful Little Penguins
added Jun 20, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: "Playful little penguins / coming out today, / looking for their furry friends?/ Here they are ? HOORAY!" Spend the day with a busy bunch of penguins -- waddling ?round, slipping and sliding on the ic...read more |
| Baek, Matthew J. | Be Gentle with the Dog Dear
added Jun 18, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Tag is usually a very happy dog. He loves his owners and they love him. He even loves the precious baby, Elisa. When she's sleeping. For every parent who's ever had to utter the book'... read more |
| Stewart, Amber | Little By Little
added Jun 14, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Otto, a young otter, has a long list of things he CAN DO, and only one thing he CAN'T DO - but it's big - he can't swim. Positive messages of starting small and working consistantly, and a...read more |
| Thompson, Lauren | The Apple Pie That Papa Baked
added Jun 11, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Lauren Thompson's variation on "The House That Jack Built" could be summed up in one sentence: Papa baked an apple pie. But then the audience would miss out on the "apples, jui... read more |
| Fleming, Candace | Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
added Jun 8, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Candace Fleming's story is a fresh-as-garden-vegetable version of the ongoing conflict between gardeners and rabbits, similar to that told in Beatrix Potter's classic, "The Tale of Peter Rabbi...read more |
| Hines, Anna Grossnickle | 1 2 Buckle My Shoe
added Jun 7, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: With its bold and simple layout, 1, 2, Buckle My Shoe is a classic nursery rhyme brought to life through beautiful, colorfully-quilted illustrations. As a counting game, children will rein... read more |
| Ravishankar, Anushka | Elephants Never Forget!
added Jun 4, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: One of these things is not like the other. But Elephant doesn't care. In his heart, he knows exactly where he belongs. Anushka Ravishankar, known as India's Dr. Seuss, presents a world of... read more |
| Bunting, Eve | Flower Garden
added Jun 4, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: In this beautifully illustrated story by Eve Bunting, a young girl and her father give her mother a window box garden for her birthday. It's a good story for gardening in the city, birthdays and t...read more |
| Barry, Frances | Big Yellow Sunflower
added May 30, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: As you turn the pages of Big Yellow Sunflower, you will be unfolding large yellow sunflower petals. You can increase your listener's print awareness by running your finger under the text as i... read more |
| Sturges, Philemon | I Love Bugs!
added May 30, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: I love this book. Your readers will have a chance to identify a familiar insect on every page. The clear colorful illustrations also provide many opportunities to identify colors, for additional vocab...read more |
| Field, Eugene | Wynken Blynken and Nod : [a Dutch Lullaby]
added May 30, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe, sailed on a river of crystal light, into a sea of dew." The three fisherman catch a school of herring, before returning home. The rhymi...read more |
| Kimmelman, Leslie | Everybody Bonjours!
added May 28, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Paris, everybody bonjours! Introduce young readers to the wonders of France as one little girl takes a tour of the patisseries, the museums, the opera h... read more |
| Tafuri, Nancy. | Mama's Little Bears
added May 28, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Join three bear cubs on their adventures out fishing with Mama bear and exploring their forest home. Children will enjoy guessing what the little bears find as the book asks: "What's over there?" ...read more |
| Goode, Diane | The Most Perfect Spot
added May 28, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: With large, bold, pink text, the story's refrain of "BUT... suddenly, who knows why," guarantees audience participation. The Most Perfect Spot is a great summer read about a ... read more |
| Hutchins, Pat | We're Going On a Picnic!
added May 28, 2008
Skills featured: Print Motivation Presentation Notes: We're Going on a Picnic! is a delightful story of Hen, Goose and Duck, who decide that it's a perfect day for a picnic. With kitchen-bright illustrations, brevity of text, ample re... read more |
| Bryan, Sean | A Bear and His Boy
added May 27, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: A Bear and His Boy is the charming follow-up to A Girl With a Gator and A Boy and His Bunny. A Bear and His Boy chronicles a day in the life of a very busy bear ... read more |
| Bryan, Sean | A Boy and his Bunny
added May 27, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: A Boy and His Bunny is a charming and humorous story of a boy who wakes up with a bunny on his head, The simple illustrations and large font lend itself to encouraging print awareness. The... read more |
| Bryan, Sean | A Girl and her Gator
added May 27, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: It is guaranteed that when reading a story about a girl "with a gator up there" one will get a lot of laughs. Children will love this comical story about a girl who woke up with an alligator attached ...read more |
| Johnson, Paul Brett | Little Bunny Foo Foo
added May 27, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: A twist on the traditional song, this story is told from the viewpoint of the Good Fairy. The familiar lyrics are printed in bold purple, and the lively illustrations convey action and hilarity. The r...read more |
| Timmers, Leo | Who is Driving?
added May 22, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Can you guess who is driving? This is a great interactive book to read with kids. On each page there are four different characters and a vehicle. Kids have a fun time naming the characters and guessin...read more |
| Portis, Antoinette | Not a Box
added May 20, 2008
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: In this spare, streamlined and simple story of words and pictures, an imaginative bunny shows what his Not-a-Box can be. Children will enjoy the participatory aspect of identifying each of the bunny&#...read more |
| Loehr, Patrick | Mucumber McGee and the Half-Eaten Hot Dog
added May 16, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Poor Mucumber takes to his sick bed after his sister tells him that the cold hot dog he just ate will kill him. Readers will enjoy the silly rhymes and vivid imagery of this book that was just me... read more |
| Tankard, Jeremy | Me Hungry!
added May 16, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Me like this book and your listeners will too. The first time through, you may want to invite your listeners to read with you as the phrase "me hungry" reappears throughout the book. Or, you may want ...read more |
| Donofrio, Beverly | Mary and the Mouse the Mouse and Mary
added May 14, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: One ordinary evening, Mary drops her fork at the dinner table. So does the Mouse. Mary sees the Mouse. The Mouse sees Mary. But can a little girl and a mouse ever become friends? In addition to B... read more |
| Jeffers, Oliver | The Way Back Home
added May 14, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: A boy discovers an airplane in his closet that he never knew was there. After running out of gas, the boy finds himself stranded on the moon. A martian meets the same fate, and the two work together t...read more |
| Churchill, Vicki | Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball
added May 13, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: A small wombat shares actions he enjoys doing. Acting out the words along with reading reinforces phonological awareness, as well as encouraging an action break. When reading to a group, the acti... read more |
| Ernst, Lisa Campbell | Round Like a Ball!
added May 9, 2008
Skills featured: VocabularyLetter Knowledge Presentation Notes: The whole family, including the dog, tries to guess what?s round like a ball and beautiful and always moving and wet and dry and home to us all. This beautifully illustrated book is a great way to int...read more |
| Simmons, Toni. | The Cheese Chase : Why Dogs Chase Cats : an African-American Folk Tale
added May 9, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: In case you ever wondered why dogs chase cats, now you can find out in this story. The dynamic illustration on the front cover may invite the curious to practise their narrative skills by explaining t...read more |
| Keselman, Gabriela | The Gift
added May 9, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Mr. and Mrs. Goodparents are thoroughly challenged by the question of what to get Mikie for his birthday. Pondering it in their Thinking Chair, they developed three problems, including a pain in their...read more |
| Jeffers, Oliver | The Incredible Book Eating Boy
added May 7, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Henry has an appetite for books--literally! This amazing young boy goes through dictionaries, atlases and story books at an alarming pace. Will he become the smartest boy in the world by osmosis?... read more |
| Hillenbrand, Will | Down by the Station
added May 3, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Adapted from a traditional children's song, Down by the Station is a whimsical vision of the question: what happens at the zoo in the hours before it opens? The cumulative refrain buil... read more |
| Himmelman, John | Chickens to the Rescue
added May 2, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: As the Greenstalk family goes through the week, each family member confronts a problem. Dropped your watch in the well, too tired to make dinner, dog ate your book report? The family chickens can fix ...read more |
| Yang, James | Joey and Jet in Space
added May 2, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Joey pursues his dog Jet after Jet takes off after his bone. The pictures, also by author James Yang, give a marvelous sense of floating through an outer space filled with vehicles, creatures and the ...read more |
| Forest, Heather | The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind : an Aesop's Fable
added May 2, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: The dedication "This book is dedicated to Peace Makers everywhere" provides readers with an excuse to review those parts of books we often skip over quickly, and a reminder to review book handling ski...read more |
| Harper, Charise Mericle | Itsy Bitsy the Smart Spider
added Apr 30, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: "Yikes!" said the Spider. read moreI've got to use my brain And figure out a way To not get wet again." The spider fights back in this delightful twi... |
| Dillon, Leo | Mother Goose Numbers On the Loose
added Apr 30, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Behold the wonderful, wacky world of Mother Goose, given off-the-wall treatment by Leo and Diane Dillon. Nursery rhymes of varying lengths jump out at the reader thanks to colored or bolded text. Chil...read more |
| Button, Sara | Black Bear Loon Walleye : A Fable from the Northwoods
added Apr 29, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Children and adults enjoy the story of black bear, loon and walleye, who admire each others coats, and then swap them. Very young children are able to appreciate how silly the animals look with their ...read more |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | If Frogs Made the Weather
added Apr 29, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Hop right over to this book that has it all?pictures to delight the eye and text to delight the ear. Onomatopoeia abound, along with opportunities to practice counting and spot the child on every page...read more |
| Serfozo, Mary | Rain Talk
added Apr 25, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: A good rainy day book by Mary Serfozo, this book explores many sounds of the rain. The author comes up with more sounds for rain than I ever thought of, perfect for enhancing phonological awarene... read more |
| Clarke, Jane | Stuck in the Mud
added Apr 25, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: When Hen discovers that one of her chicks is stuck in the mud, all sorts of animals on the farm join in to help pull Chick out. The rhyming of the story and the sounds the different animals make empha...read more |
| Kirk, Daniel | Jack and Jill
added Apr 23, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: From its first page, you can tell this is not the traditional story: "Jack and Jill sat on the sill and looked out through the glass / Their TV set was broken, so they watched the cow ... read more |
| Pinkwater, Daniel Manus | Bear's Picture
added Apr 22, 2008
Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: This edition of the classic Daniel Pinkwater tale has beautiful illustrations by D.B. Johnson, which will engage audiences of all ages. Confident Bear makes a grand champion for all young artists, and...read more |
| Tafuri, Nancy | Blue Goose
added Apr 22, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: When Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick and White Duck decide to paint their barnyard, they give children the opportunity to learn--and reinforce what they already know--about colors. Incorporating pri...read more |
| Scott, Ann Herbert | Hi
added Apr 19, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Presentation Notes: Margarita greets each customer in the post office with a cheery hi, but as she doesn't get a greeting in return, her enthusiasm fades. Hi is a first word for many children, and waving hi is f... read more |
| Lechner, Jack | Mary Had a Little Lamp
added Apr 19, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: After reading traditional nursery rhymes to increase phonological sensitivity, look for this modern tale of Mary and her friend. This rhyming text will also increase phonological sensitivity, while th...read more |
| Steffensmeier, Alexander | Millie Waits for the Mail
added Apr 19, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Letter Knowledge Presentation Notes: Millie the cow loves to scare the mail carrier, but when he brings mail for her, she has a change of heart. This is a quick, silly book that fits in well with a post office theme. Encourage the childr...read more |
| Horning, Sandra | The Giant Hug
added Apr 19, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills Presentation Notes: Owen, a young pig, wants to send a giant hug to his granny for her birthday. One by one, each postal worker passes on the hug, with pleasing results. Encourage children to open their arms wide for eac...read more |
| Ernst, Lisa Campbell | Wake Up, It's Spring!
added Apr 16, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Her sweet-natured book Wake Up, It's Spring provides great conversation about the change of seasons. After bitter cold comes the sun, who proceeds to greet his old friend earthworm... read more |
| Fearnley, Jan | A Perfect Day for it
added Apr 15, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: In the past I've turned this book into a movement activity to get children up and about and provide print motivation for the kinesthetic learners in the audience. Get a bear print off the internet...read more |
| Olson-Brown, Ellen | Hush Little Digger
added Apr 15, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Many children are already familiar with Hush Little Baby, so their ears will be attuned to the changes in this version, enhancing phonological sensitivity. There is a lot of specialized vocabulary con...read more |
| Dodds, Dayle Ann | Minnie's Diner : a Multiplying Menu
added Apr 15, 2008
Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Presentation Notes: Fun and phonological awareness multiply as the five increasingly large McFay brothers, (Will, Bill, Phil, Gill and Dill) order increasingly large lunches from Minnie?s Diner, all in rhyming text. Your...read more |
| Sharratt, Nick | Shark in the Park
added Apr 15, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: This book uses clever die-cuts to make it look like there is a shark in the park. Before you turn the page to show what the black triangle really is, you can ask children what they think they'll f...read more |
| McFarland, Lyn Rossiter | Widget
added Apr 15, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: Widget plays with what children know about the two animals they know the best-cats and dogs. Take the time to encourage narrative skills by asking children what dogs and cats do, how they act. Then in...read more |
| Petty, Kate | Ha Ha, Baby
added Apr 12, 2008
Skills featured: Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Baby does not want to smile, despite the best efforts of his family. So, big brother stares him down, until a giggle emerges. Have the children make the faces Baby does, and then everyone stare a... read more |
| Rosenthal, Amy Krouse | Little Hoot
added Apr 12, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Presentation Notes: It's not fair - Little Hoot wants to go to bed early like his friends, but Mama and Papa Owl explain he must stay up late. A gentle bedtime story, with a humorous twist. |
| Dodd, Emma | What Pet to Get?
added Apr 12, 2008
Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Presentation Notes: Mama has agreed to get a pet, but outlandish suggestions of a giraffe, a rhino,a polar bear and more are met with gentle, pragmatic refusals. Children enjoy identifing the animals from the pictures be...read more |
| Weeks, Sarah | Bunny Fun added Apr 11, 2008 |