Reading Corner

Read! Read! Read! Browse through a list of Media Specialist recommended books. Look at other recommended book lists and check out award winners. There are also lists of questions to think about while reading and activities to do after reading.

Book Recommendations

Plant a seed of knowledge - Read!

The Bee Tree (Polacco)

The Great Triple Creek Dam Affair (Polacco)

Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do (Dakos)

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You (Hoberman)

The Wednesday Surprise (Bunting)

Mrs. Roopy is Loopy (Gutman)

Good Books, Good Times (Hopkins)

Emily's Runaway Imagination (Cleary)

The 100 Book Race: Hog Wild in the Reading Room (Giff)

Winnie at Her Best (Jacobson)

The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine (Stanley)

Lucy's Quiet Book (Ernst)

Check out these lists for other great books.

100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know

Caldecott/Newbery Medal Homepage

IRA Children's Choices Booklist

Nutmeg Book Award

Reading Activities

Here are some questions to ask yourself about your reading.

1. Describe one of the characters.

2. Who is your favorite character and why?

3. What is your favorite part of the story?

4. How do you feel about the ending of the story?

5. Is this story like another story that you've read? How?

6. What is the probelm in the story and how is it solved?

Here are some fun activities you can do with books.

1. Design a new book jacket for the book.

2. Make a mobile about the book.

3. Create a diorama of a scene from the book.

4. Make a timeline of the important events in the story.

5. Write a different beginning or ending for the story.

6. Write a letter to one of the characters, or to the author of the story.

7. Take a picture walk: make predictions about the story based on the illustrations.

8. Make a puppet of one of the characters and use it to retell the story.