Suggested Book Titles For Emergent Readers

 

These books can be used in a variety of ways.  Read them aloud to your child multiple times.  Have fun with both the language play and the illustrations.  Discuss the story plot that the language conveys, but more importantly focus on the sounds the words create.  Draw your child's attention to the rhyming patterns, initial sounds, nonsense words, mixed-up sounds, etc.  Have them echo you as you read, or choral read it together.  Repeated exposure helps children notice the sound features in our language.  This in turn prepares them better for reading and spelling.

 

Alliteration – Phonemic Awareness (To Teach Initial Consonants / Consonant Sounds)

 

A My Name is Alice Jane Bayer

The Accidental Zucchini Max Grover

Alligators All Around Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss’s ABC Dr. Seuss

Six Sick Sheep: 101 Tongue Twisters Joanna Cole

The Snail That Snored Linda Cave

Some Smug Slug Pamela Duncan Edwards

 

Rhyme – Phonemic Awareness (Manipulating Language / Rhyme Patterns)

 

Barnyard Banter Denise Fleming

Beast Feast Douglas Florian

Big Brown Bear David McPhail

Each Peach Pear Plum Janet & Allan Ahlberg

“Fire! Fire!” Said Mrs. McGuire Bill Martin Jr.

The Foot Book Dr. Seuss

Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown

The Happy Hippopotami Bill Martin Jr.

Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss

The Hungry Thing Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler

In the Small, Small Pond Denise Fleming

Is Your Mama a Llama? Deborah Guarino

Jamberry Bruce Degan

Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore David McPhail

Rachel Fister’s Blister Amy MacDonald

Sheep in a Jeep Nancy Shaw

Shoes Elizabeth Winthrop

 

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Kindergarten: (Read Aloud Titles)

Danny and the Dinosaur, by Sid Hoff

Red Light, Green Light, by Margaret Wise Brown

Fox on Wheels, by Edward Marshall

Arthur's Reading Race, by Marc Brown

Nate the Great, by Marjorie Sharmat