Useful Links
How to Read with Your Student at Home
- Figure Out Tricky Words- Have students stop at tricky words break them into chunks, use the pictures, and use the words surrounding the unknown word.
- Monitoring Comprehension- While reading with your students as questions during and after the book that is at hand. Asking these questions will help to make connections with their prior knowledge and merge it with their learned information. Also, have students retell the story after reading their book.
- Reread- Have students read books more than once first look at the pictures, then go through and read the words, and finally have students go through and predict what they think is going to happen next.
- Infer- Have students think about what might happen next as they are reading along with infer what might the themes and unknown words may mean.
How to Help Them Find a Book
- Look at the Book- Cover, number of pages, pictures, title(s), familiar authors.
- Read First Page- Make sure the first page does not have more than 5 unknown words.
- Understanding- Are they able to keep up with what is going on through out the book?
- Decide- Is this book a good choice or not? If not start over with a new book.
Online Resources
Celebrities read books aloud so that students may hear what a fluent reader sounds like on storyline.net
Staffers from Barnes and Noble read books aloud so students may hear what a fluent reader sound like on their website barnesandnoble.com
If parents do not have books at home they may still have their student practice reading books by reading an online book.
Books That Are Grade Level Appropriate
Select Grade Level Equivalent to be able to find books that are grade level appropriate.
Tulsa Public Library Catalog Page
After finding a grade level appropriate book see if our Public Library has the book title.
Guy Specific Recommendation Books
This website is created by author Jon Scieszka that will help find books that boys will be interested in. Girls may also find some of interest as well.
Book reviews written by other students of all ages. You may also add your own book review.
You may preview a book off of Scholastic by watching a short trailer video.
Book Recommendations: 1. Pigeon Books (series) 2. Charlotte's Web 3. The Boxcar Children (series 4. Third Grade Angels 5. Encyclopedia Brown (series) 6. Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein 7. Holes 8. Wayside School (series) 9. Harry Potter (series) 11. Percy Jackson (series) 12. Pink and Say 13. Junie B. Jones (series) 14. Swindle 15. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) 16. Because of Winn-Dixie 17. The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963
18. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
19. Number the Stars 20. Ella Enchanted
21. Spirit Animals
22. Michael Dahl's Scary Story Series
23. Big Nate
24. Baby Mouse
25. Origami Yoda (series)
26. Kylie Jean 27. Ivy & Bean (series)
28. Dogman (series) 29. Andre Clements books (multiple titles)
30. Notebook of Doom (series) 31. How to Train Your Dragon (series)
32. My Weird School (series) 33. Clementine (series)
34. Mr. Putter and Tabby (series) 35. Nancy Drew (series)
36. Stick Dog (series) 37. Dash
38. Stick Cat (series) 39. Jake Maddox (multiple sports titles)
40. Lotus Lane (series)
41. Stink (series)
42. Judy Moody (series)
43. Galaxy Zack (series)
44. Bear by Wilson (series) 45. Captain Underpants/ Mighty Robot (series)
46. Percy Jackson (series)
47. Dork Diaries (series)
48. A-Z Mysteries (series)
49. Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
50. The Mysterious Benedict Society (series)
51. Bad Kitty (series) 52. Goosebumps (series) 53. Geronimo Stilton (series) 54. Thea Stilton (series)
55. I Survived (series)
56. Laura Ingalls Wilder (series)