Early Literacy
5 Practices of Early Literacy: Talking, Reading, Playing, Singing & Writing
Talking. Create a narrative with these wordless picture books.
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Free fall by David Wiesner
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
Truck by Donald Crews
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Wave by Suzy Lee
Reading
This Is My Book! by Mick Inkpen
How Do You Wokka-wokka? by Elizabeth Bluemle
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Sheep in A Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Such A Silly Baby! by Steffanie Lorig
We Are in A Book! by Mo Willems
Chester by Mélanie Watt
The Wrong Book
by Nick Bland
Playing
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Potter, Beatrix
Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey
Caps for Sale: A Tale of A Peddler, Some Monkeys, and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
The Magic Hat by Mem Fox
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
Tiptoe Tapirs by Kim, Han-min
Singing
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
The Seals on the Bus by Hort, Lenny
If you're a Monster and you Know it by Rebecca Emberley
Old MacDonald's Things That Go by Jane Clarke
Today Is Monday by Eric Carle
Conejito: A Folktale From Panama by Margaret Read MacDonald,
Mortimer by Robert N. Munsch
Pete the Cat:I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
Writing
The Alphabet Theatre Proudly Presents the Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-six Acts by Van Chris Allsburg
A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom
Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types by Sharon Werner
Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont
Kipper's A to Z by Mick Inkpen
Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
LMNO Peas by Keith Baker,
Professional Development: Program Planning
Stories, Songs, and Stretches! Creating Playful Storytimes with Yoga and Movement (2017) by Katie Scherrer
Reading Pictures Books With Children: How to Shake up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See (2015) by Megan Dowd Lambert
Books in Motion: Connecting Preschoolers with Books Through Art, Games, Movement, Music, Playacting, and Props (2013) by Julie Dietzel-Glair
Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year’s Worth of Ready-to-Go Programming (2013) by Carol Garnett Hopkins
Read! Move! Learn! Active Stories for Active Learning (2007) by Carol Totsky Hammett and Nicki Collins Geigeert
Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture and Preventing Bias in Early Childhood (2016) by Stacey York
Supercharged Storytimes: An Early literacy Planning and Assessment Guide (2016) by Kathleen Campana, J. Elizabeth Mills, and Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting
Professional Development Books: Literacy & Language
Born Reading: Bringing up Bookworms in a Digital Age – From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between (2014) by Jason Boog
Growing a Reader From Birth: Your Child’s Path from Language to Literacy (2004) by Diane McGuinness
Handbook of Early Literacy Research, Volume 3 (2011) edited by Susan B. Neuman and David K. Dickinson
How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life (2000) by Roberta Michnick and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Many Languages, Building Connections: Supporting Infants and Toddlers Who Are Dual Language Learners (2012) by Karen N. Nemeth
The Read-Aloud Handbook (2019) by Jim Trelease
Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want and Why We Should Let Them (2014) by Jefffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens (2015) by Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine