Willow Avenue Elementary School

Literature Suggestions for K-1

• Little Bear (An I Can Read Book) A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog (Boy, Dog, Frog) Mercer Mayer
• Are You My Mother? D. Eastman
• Green Eggs and Ham Seuss
• Put me in the Zoo Robert Lopshire
• Frog and Toad Together (I Can Read Picture Book) Arnold Lobel
• Owl at Home (I Can Read Book 2) Arnold Lobel
• Pancakes for Breakfast Tomie dePaola
• Hi! Fly Guy (Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) Tedd Arnold

Poetry Suggestions for K-1

• “As I Was Going to Ives,” Anonymo us
• “Mix a Pancake,” Christina Rossetti
• “Singing-Time,” Rose Fyleman
• “Halfway Down” A. Milne
• “Drinking Fountain” Marchette Chute
• “Poem” Langston Hughes
• “Wouldn’t You?” John Ciardi
• “By Myself” Eloise Greenfield
• “Covers” Nikki Giovanni
• “It Fell in the City” Eve Merriam
• “Celebration” Alonzo Lopez
• “Two Tree Toads”

Informational Texts Suggestions for K-1 

• A Tree Is a Plant (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science) Clyde Robert Bulla
• My Five Senses (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) Aliki
• Starfish (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science) Edith Thacher Hurd
• A Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver Aliki
• Truck Donald Crews
• I Read Signs (Reading Rainbow Books) Tama Hoban
• Let’s Find Out About Ice Cream Mary Ebeltoft Reid
• “Garden Helpers,” National Geographic Young Explorers
• “Wind Power,” National Geographic Young Explorers

Read-Aloud Stories for K-1 (Adult reading to child)

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) Frank Baum
• Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Popper’s Penguins (Paperback) Richard and Florence Atwater
• Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson
• A Story, a Story Gail Haley
• The Paper Crane (Reading Rainbow Book) Molly Bang
• Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China Ed Young
• Family Pictures, 15th Anniversary Edition / Cuadros de Familia, Edición Quinceañera Carmen Lomas Garza
• Tomas and the Library Lady Pat Mora
• Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes

Read-Aloud Poetry for K-1 (Adult reading to child)

• “The Fox’s Foray,” Anonymous
• “Over in the Meadow,” John Langstaff
• “The Owl and the Pussycat,” Edward Lear
• “April Rain Song” Langston Hughes
• “Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin,” Lloyd Moss

Read-Aloud Informational Texts for K-1 (Adult reading to child)

• A Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen
• Fire! Fire! Gail Gibbons
• Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) Arthur Dorros
• Water, Water Everywhere Cynthia Overbeck and Mark Rauzon
• Earthworms Claire Llewellyn
• What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book) Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
• From Seed to Pumpkin (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1) (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) Wendy Pfeffer
• Amazing Whales! (I Can Read Book 2) Sarah Thomson
• How People Learned to Fly (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) True Kelley and Fran Hodgkins

Second Grade and Third Grade Common Core Suggested Reading List

• My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett
• “The Fire Cat,” Esther Averill
• Amos and Boris William Steig
• The Treasure Uri Shulevitz
• The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
• Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
• Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures Cythia Rylant
• Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens
• The Raft Jim LaMarche
• Poppleton in Winter Cynthia Rylant
• The Lighthouse Family: The Storm Cynthia Rylant
• The One-Eyed Giant Mary Pope Osborne
• Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Erica Silverman

Poetry

• “Autumn,” Emily Dickinson
• “Who Has Seen the Wind?” Christina Rossetti
• “Afternoon on a Hill,” Edna Vincent Millay
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Robert Frost
• “Something Told the Wild Geese” Rachel Field
• “Grandpa’s Stories” Langston Hughes
• “A Bat is Born” Randall Jarrell
• “Knoxville, Tennessee” Nikki Giovanni
• “Weather” Eve Merriam
• “Eating While Reading” Gary Soto

Informational Texts

• A Medieval Feast Aliki
• From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons
• Bats: Creatures of the Night Joyce Milton
• Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World Selby Beeler
• Art around the World Heather Leonard
• Martin Luther King and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin
• So You Want to Be President? Judith George
• Crittercam Andrew Einspruch
• Boy, We Were Wrong About Dinosaurs Kathleen Kudlinski
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 Brian Floca
• Where Do Polar Bears Live? Sarah Thomson

Read-Aloud Stories

• How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling
• The Thirteen Clocks James Thurber
• Charlotte’s Web B. White
• The Cricket in Times Square George Selden
• The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
• Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
• Sign Painter Allen Say

Read-Aloud Poetry

• “The Jumblies,” Edward Lear
• “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Robert Browning
• “Your World,” Georgia Douglas Johnson
• “The Song of the Jellicles” S. Elliot
• “Fireflies,” Paul Fleischman

Read-Aloud Informational Texts

• Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman
• The Story of the Ruby Bridges Robert Coles
• A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick
• If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People David Smith
• Ah, Music Aliki
• The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections Jan Mark
• What the World Eats Faith D’Aluisio
• Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints
• 14 Cows for America Carmen Agra Deedy

• Summer Reading Bingo

Second Grade and Third Grade Common Core Suggested Reading List

• My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett
• “The Fire Cat,” Esther Averill
• Amos and Boris William Steig
• The Treasure Uri Shulevitz
• The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
• Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
• Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures Cythia Rylant
• Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens
• The Raft Jim LaMarche
• Poppleton in Winter Cynthia Rylant
• The Lighthouse Family: The Storm Cynthia Rylant
• The One-Eyed Giant Mary Pope Osborne
• Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Erica Silverman

Poetry

• “Autumn,” Emily Dickinson
• “Who Has Seen the Wind?” Christina Rossetti
• “Afternoon on a Hill,” Edna Vincent Millay
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Robert Frost
• “Something Told the Wild Geese” Rachel Field
• “Grandpa’s Stories” Langston Hughes
• “A Bat is Born” Randall Jarrell
• “Knoxville, Tennessee” Nikki Giovanni
• “Weather” Eve Merriam
• “Eating While Reading” Gary Soto

Informational Texts

• A Medieval Feast Aliki
• From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons
• Bats: Creatures of the Night Joyce Milton
• Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World Selby Beeler
• Art around the World Heather Leonard
• Martin Luther King and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin
• So You Want to Be President? Judith George
• Crittercam Andrew Einspruch
• Boy, We Were Wrong About Dinosaurs Kathleen Kudlinski
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 Brian Floca
• Where Do Polar Bears Live? Sarah Thomson

Read-Aloud Stories

• How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling
• The Thirteen Clocks James Thurber
• Charlotte’s Web B. White
• The Cricket in Times Square George Selden
• The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
• Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
• Sign Painter Allen Say

Read-Aloud Poetry

• “The Jumblies,” Edward Lear
• “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Robert Browning
• “Your World,” Georgia Douglas Johnson
• “The Song of the Jellicles” S. Elliot
• “Fireflies,” Paul Fleischman

Read-Aloud Informational Texts

• Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman
• The Story of the Ruby Bridges Robert Coles
• A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick
• If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People David Smith
• Ah, Music Aliki
• The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections Jan Mark
• What the World Eats Faith D’Aluisio
• Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints
• 14 Cows for America Carmen Agra Deedy

• Summer Reading Bingo