How to Read a Book Aloud
- Tell the name
- Tell the author and illustrator
- Show the front
- What can you tell me from the front cover
- Ask some questions
- Show the first page
- Show the next (title) page, repeat the author and illustrator
- Read and show the pictures, ask some questions about new information
- Repeat with the next page
Poetry Books
- For laughing out loud
- Climb into my lap
- Good books, good times
- Read aloud rhymes
- Pass it on
- Comets, Stars, the moon and Mars
- Feasting and fun
- Big, bad, and a little bit scary
- Families; poems celebrating African American experience
- Poems for fathers
- And the dish ran away with the spoon
- Wiggle Woggle fun
- Here’s a little poem
- A pizza the size of the Sun
- The giving tree (by Shel Silverstein)
- Casey at the bat
- The llama who had no pajama (100 silly poems)
- … A poem a day…
- … A poem a week…
- Around the world in eighty poems
- Dogku
- Haiku Hike (written by 4th grade students)
- Hip hop speaks to children
- Yum, mmmm que rico
- To market to market
- The big book of poetry (Book of phonics)
- A house is a house for me – writing process introduction, make their own book
Summer Reading List by Grade Level (Source: Covenant Classical School)
Students who will begin kindergarten in the fall:
Penn, Audrey - The Kissing Hand (ISBN: 1933718102)
Wing, Natasha - The Night Before Kindergarten (ISBN: 0448425009)
McGhee, Alison - Countdown to Kindergarten (ISBN: 015205586X)
Carlson, Nancy - Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come (ISBN-10: 0140568387)
Graham, Oakley - I Can Tie My Own Shoelaces (ISBN: 1782448241)
Wing, Natasha - The Night Before Kindergarten (ISBN: 0448425009)
McGhee, Alison - Countdown to Kindergarten (ISBN: 015205586X)
Carlson, Nancy - Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come (ISBN-10: 0140568387)
Graham, Oakley - I Can Tie My Own Shoelaces (ISBN: 1782448241)
Students who will begin 1st grade in the fall:
Advanced Level Bob Books
Green Light Readers
I Can Read Books
Puffin Easy-to-Read Scholastic Readers
Step Into Reading
Dick and Jane Books
Dr. Seuss Early Readers
P.D. Eastman Early Readers
Read-It! Readers
Green Light Readers
I Can Read Books
Puffin Easy-to-Read Scholastic Readers
Step Into Reading
Dick and Jane Books
Dr. Seuss Early Readers
P.D. Eastman Early Readers
Read-It! Readers
Students who will begin 2nd grade in the fall:
Lobel, Arnold – Days with Frog and Toad
Parish, Peggy – Amelia Bedelia
Byars, Betsy – The Golly Sisters
Levinson, Smiler – Snowshoe Thompson
Rylant, Cynthia – The High-Rise Private Eyes
Sharmat, Marjorie Weiman – Nate the Great
Stevens and Crummel – And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Dagleish, Alice – The Courage of Sarah Noble
McCloskey, Robert – Homer Price
Clearly, Beverly – Henry Huggins
Karon, Jan – Jeremy
American Girl Doll books by American Girl Collection
Jenny the Cat Club books by Esther Averill
Parish, Peggy – Amelia Bedelia
Byars, Betsy – The Golly Sisters
Levinson, Smiler – Snowshoe Thompson
Rylant, Cynthia – The High-Rise Private Eyes
Sharmat, Marjorie Weiman – Nate the Great
Stevens and Crummel – And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Dagleish, Alice – The Courage of Sarah Noble
McCloskey, Robert – Homer Price
Clearly, Beverly – Henry Huggins
Karon, Jan – Jeremy
American Girl Doll books by American Girl Collection
Jenny the Cat Club books by Esther Averill
Students who will begin 3rd grade in the fall:
Banks. Lynne - The Indian in the Cupboard
Cleary, Beverly, - The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Bulla, Clyde R. – Riding the Pony Express
Bulla, Clyde R. – Shoeshine Girl
Cleary, Beverly – Henry Huggins (Series)
Cleary, Beverly – Ramona (Series)
Enright, Elizabeth – The Saturdays
Enright, Elizabeth – Thimble Summer
Estes, Eleanor – Ginger Pye
Estes, Eleanor – The Moffats
Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
Haywood, Carolyn – B is for Betsy (Series)
Henry, Marguerite – Misty of Chincoteague (Series)
Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories
Lenski, Lois – Strawberry Girl
Lovelace, Maude Hart – Betsy Tacy (Series)
McCloskey, Robert – Homer Price
Silverstein, Shel – Where the Sidewalk Ends
Sobol, Donald J. – Encyclopedia Brown (Series)
Stewart, Trenton Lee – Mysterious Benedict Society (Series)
Warner, Gertrude Chandler – The Boxcar Children (Series)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House on the Prairie (Series)
Cleary, Beverly, - The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Bulla, Clyde R. – Riding the Pony Express
Bulla, Clyde R. – Shoeshine Girl
Cleary, Beverly – Henry Huggins (Series)
Cleary, Beverly – Ramona (Series)
Enright, Elizabeth – The Saturdays
Enright, Elizabeth – Thimble Summer
Estes, Eleanor – Ginger Pye
Estes, Eleanor – The Moffats
Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
Haywood, Carolyn – B is for Betsy (Series)
Henry, Marguerite – Misty of Chincoteague (Series)
Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories
Lenski, Lois – Strawberry Girl
Lovelace, Maude Hart – Betsy Tacy (Series)
McCloskey, Robert – Homer Price
Silverstein, Shel – Where the Sidewalk Ends
Sobol, Donald J. – Encyclopedia Brown (Series)
Stewart, Trenton Lee – Mysterious Benedict Society (Series)
Warner, Gertrude Chandler – The Boxcar Children (Series)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House on the Prairie (Series)
Students who will begin 4th grade in the fall:
Burnett, Frances Hodges – Little Lord Fauntleroy
Dixon, Franklin – The Hardy Boys (Series)
George, Jean Craighead – My Side of the Mountain
Jacques, Brian – Mossflower Jacques, Brian – The Redwall (Series)
Keene, Carolyn – The Nancy Drew (Series)
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Lewis, C.S. – A Horse and His Boy
Little, Jean – Mine for Keeps
Lofling, Hugh – Dr. Doolittle (Series)
MacDonald, George – The Princess and the Goblin
Montgomery, L. M. – Anne of Green Gables
Nesbit, Edith – Five Children and It
Norton, Mary – The Borrowers
O’Brien, Robert C. – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Porter, Eleanor – Just David
St. John, Patricia – Treasures in the Snow
Vernon, Louis – The Beggar’s Bible
Dixon, Franklin – The Hardy Boys (Series)
George, Jean Craighead – My Side of the Mountain
Jacques, Brian – Mossflower Jacques, Brian – The Redwall (Series)
Keene, Carolyn – The Nancy Drew (Series)
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Lewis, C.S. – A Horse and His Boy
Little, Jean – Mine for Keeps
Lofling, Hugh – Dr. Doolittle (Series)
MacDonald, George – The Princess and the Goblin
Montgomery, L. M. – Anne of Green Gables
Nesbit, Edith – Five Children and It
Norton, Mary – The Borrowers
O’Brien, Robert C. – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Porter, Eleanor – Just David
St. John, Patricia – Treasures in the Snow
Vernon, Louis – The Beggar’s Bible
Students who will begin 5th grade in the fall:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Little Princess
Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Lost Prince
Fritz, Jean – Early Thunder
MacDonald, George – The Light Princess
O’Dell, Scott – Island of the Blue Dolphins
O’Dell, Scott – Streams to the River, River to the Sea
O’Dell, Scott – Sarah Bishop
Porter, Eleanor H. – Pollyanna
Rawls, Wilson – Summer of the Monkeys
Spyri, Johanna – Heidi
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
Wyss, Johan – Swiss Family Robinson
Yates, Elizabeth - Amos Fortune
Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Lost Prince
Fritz, Jean – Early Thunder
MacDonald, George – The Light Princess
O’Dell, Scott – Island of the Blue Dolphins
O’Dell, Scott – Streams to the River, River to the Sea
O’Dell, Scott – Sarah Bishop
Porter, Eleanor H. – Pollyanna
Rawls, Wilson – Summer of the Monkeys
Spyri, Johanna – Heidi
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
Wyss, Johan – Swiss Family Robinson
Yates, Elizabeth - Amos Fortune
Students who will begin 6th grade in the fall:
Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
Bunyan, John – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Christie, Agatha – And Then There Were None
Curtis, Christopher Paul – The Watson's Go to Birmingham
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of Baskervilles
Field, Rachel – Hitty Finley, Martha – Life of Faith (Series)
Gilert, Henry – Robin Hood Henty, G. A. – The Boy Knight; Among Malay Pirates; Freedom’s Cause; et. al.
Jackson, Liva Bitton – I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Lewis, C.S. – The Silver Chair Lewis, C.S. – The Last Battle
London, Jack – Call of the Wild
Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables
O’Dell, Scott – The King’s Fifth
Paterson, Katherine – Bridge to Terabithia
Raskin, Ellen – The Westing Game
Rawls, Wilson – Where the Red Fern Grows
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Fellowship of the Ring
Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper T
wain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules – From Earth to Moon
Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wyss, Johann – Swiss Family Robinson
Sutcliffe, Rosemary – Eagle of the Ninth
Bunyan, John – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Christie, Agatha – And Then There Were None
Curtis, Christopher Paul – The Watson's Go to Birmingham
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of Baskervilles
Field, Rachel – Hitty Finley, Martha – Life of Faith (Series)
Gilert, Henry – Robin Hood Henty, G. A. – The Boy Knight; Among Malay Pirates; Freedom’s Cause; et. al.
Jackson, Liva Bitton – I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Lewis, C.S. – The Silver Chair Lewis, C.S. – The Last Battle
London, Jack – Call of the Wild
Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables
O’Dell, Scott – The King’s Fifth
Paterson, Katherine – Bridge to Terabithia
Raskin, Ellen – The Westing Game
Rawls, Wilson – Where the Red Fern Grows
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Fellowship of the Ring
Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper T
wain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules – From Earth to Moon
Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wyss, Johann – Swiss Family Robinson
Sutcliffe, Rosemary – Eagle of the Ninth
Students who will begin 7th & 8th grade in the fall:
Adams, Richard – Watership Down
Armstrong, William – Sounder Avi – The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game
Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass Cather, Willa – O Pioneers!
Chesterton, G. K. – Father
Brown, The Essential Tales Christie, Agatha – Death on the Nile
Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
Douglas, Lloyd C. – The Robe
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Eliot, George – Silas Marner
Frank, Anne – Diary of a Young Girl
Goldman, William – The Princess Bride
Gunther, John – Death Be Not Proud
Henty, G. A. – Winning His Spurs
Herbert, Frank – Dune
Hurnard, Hannah – Hinds’ Feet on High Places
Juster, Norton – The Phantom Tollbooth
Lewis, C. S. – Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy)
Lewis, C. S. – Screwtape Letters
Kane, Ben – The Silver Eagle
Keyes, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
Lowry, Lois – The Giver
Montgomery, L. M. - Anne of Green Gables
O’Dell, Scott – Island of the Blue Dolphins
Pyle, Howard – Otto of the Silver Hand
Sayers, Dorothy – Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
Sutcliff, Rosemary – Eagle of the Ninth Ten
Boom, Corrie – The Hiding Place
Twain, Mark – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper
Twain, Mark – Pudd’nhead Wilson
Tolkien, J. R. R. – Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Two Towers
Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Return of the King
Verne, Jules – Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wodehouse P. G. – Carry On Jeeves
Wodehouse P. G. – The Inimitable Jeeves
Wodehouse P. G. – Very Good, Jeeves!
Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson
Armstrong, William – Sounder Avi – The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game
Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass Cather, Willa – O Pioneers!
Chesterton, G. K. – Father
Brown, The Essential Tales Christie, Agatha – Death on the Nile
Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
Douglas, Lloyd C. – The Robe
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Eliot, George – Silas Marner
Frank, Anne – Diary of a Young Girl
Goldman, William – The Princess Bride
Gunther, John – Death Be Not Proud
Henty, G. A. – Winning His Spurs
Herbert, Frank – Dune
Hurnard, Hannah – Hinds’ Feet on High Places
Juster, Norton – The Phantom Tollbooth
Lewis, C. S. – Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy)
Lewis, C. S. – Screwtape Letters
Kane, Ben – The Silver Eagle
Keyes, Daniel – Flowers for Algernon
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
Lowry, Lois – The Giver
Montgomery, L. M. - Anne of Green Gables
O’Dell, Scott – Island of the Blue Dolphins
Pyle, Howard – Otto of the Silver Hand
Sayers, Dorothy – Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
Sutcliff, Rosemary – Eagle of the Ninth Ten
Boom, Corrie – The Hiding Place
Twain, Mark – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper
Twain, Mark – Pudd’nhead Wilson
Tolkien, J. R. R. – Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Two Towers
Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Return of the King
Verne, Jules – Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wodehouse P. G. – Carry On Jeeves
Wodehouse P. G. – The Inimitable Jeeves
Wodehouse P. G. – Very Good, Jeeves!
Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson
Students who will begin 9th through 12th grade in the fall:
Abbott, Edwin – Flatland
Austen, Jane – Emma
Austen, Jane – Persuasion
Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
Boccaccio – The Decameron
Bolt, Robert – A Man for All Seasons
Bradbury, Ray – Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Bunyan, John – Pilgrim’s Progress
Chesterton, G. K. – The Man Who Was Thursday
Clarke, Arthur C. – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Cooper, James Fenimore – Last of the Mohicans
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles – Hard Times
Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
Dinesen, Isak – Out of Africa
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot
Dumas, Alexander – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexander – The Three Musketeers
Eliot, T. S. – Murder in the Cathedral
Ellison, Ralph – The Invisible Man
Faulkner, William – Absalom Absalom!
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Forster, E. M. – A Passage to India
Gaarder, Jostein – Sophie’s World
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Harris, Joel Chandler – The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hudson, W. H. – Green Mansions
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables
James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
Knowles, John – A Separate Peace
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
MacDonald, George – Phantastes
McPherson, James M. – Battle Cry Freedom
Melville, Herman – Billy Budd
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind
More, Sir Thomas – Utopia
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia
Pasternak, Boris – Dr. Zhivago
Paton, Alan – Cry the Beloved Country
Porter, William Sidney – The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
Rand, Ayn – We the Living
Shaara, Michael - The Killer Angels
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William – Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John – The Pearl
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Tan, Amy – The Joy Luck Club
Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
Thurber, James – The Thurber Carnival
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo – The Death of Ivan Ilych
Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan – Sketches from a Hunter’s Album
Wells, H. G. – The Time Machine
Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard – Native Son
Austen, Jane – Emma
Austen, Jane – Persuasion
Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
Boccaccio – The Decameron
Bolt, Robert – A Man for All Seasons
Bradbury, Ray – Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Bunyan, John – Pilgrim’s Progress
Chesterton, G. K. – The Man Who Was Thursday
Clarke, Arthur C. – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Cooper, James Fenimore – Last of the Mohicans
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles – Hard Times
Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
Dinesen, Isak – Out of Africa
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot
Dumas, Alexander – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexander – The Three Musketeers
Eliot, T. S. – Murder in the Cathedral
Ellison, Ralph – The Invisible Man
Faulkner, William – Absalom Absalom!
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Forster, E. M. – A Passage to India
Gaarder, Jostein – Sophie’s World
Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Harris, Joel Chandler – The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hudson, W. H. – Green Mansions
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables
James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
Knowles, John – A Separate Peace
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
MacDonald, George – Phantastes
McPherson, James M. – Battle Cry Freedom
Melville, Herman – Billy Budd
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind
More, Sir Thomas – Utopia
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia
Pasternak, Boris – Dr. Zhivago
Paton, Alan – Cry the Beloved Country
Porter, William Sidney – The Best Short Stories of O. Henry
Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
Rand, Ayn – We the Living
Shaara, Michael - The Killer Angels
Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William – Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John – The Pearl
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Tan, Amy – The Joy Luck Club
Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
Thurber, James – The Thurber Carnival
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo – The Death of Ivan Ilych
Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan – Sketches from a Hunter’s Album
Wells, H. G. – The Time Machine
Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard – Native Son