Kindergarten Requirements

Kindergarten Requirements

Research has shown that the single greatest factor in predicting reading success is whether a child is read to when they are young.

Requirements: Students entering Kindergarten in the fall are asked to read and record 12 books during the summer. A list of suggested books is attached. These books are merely suggestions. Please feel free to read any books that are appropriate for your reader. The staff at the public library can also be a good source for book suggestions.

Record Keeping: With your child, fill out 2 of the summer Reading Logs. Each Reading Log has space to enter 6 books. Please return the Reading Logs to the English teacher the first week of school.* (View - Download)

Incentive: If 2 Reading Logs, listing 12 books, are completed and turned into the English teacher, the child will be awarded a free book.

Reading List (Download)

Books About School

• Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes

• If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff

• Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

• The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing

• How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? By Jane Yolen & Mark Teague

Alphabet Books

• ABC I Like Me! By Nancy Carlson

• Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert

• Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson

• The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionn

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin and John Archambault

• The Ocean Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta

• Albert B. Cub & and Zebra by Anne Rockwell

• Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood

Folktales and Fables

• The Tortoise and the Hare an Aesop Fable

• The Grasshopper and the Ants an Aesop Fable

• The Three Bill Goats Gruff by Stephen Carpenter

• Little Red Riding Hood by James Marshall

• The Little Red Hen by Lucinda McQueen

• Henny Penny by H. Werner Zimmermann

Rhyming Books

• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

• Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola

• Down by the Bay by Raffi

• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Picture Books

• Town Mouse Country Mouse by Jan Brett

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

• Curious George Rides a Bike by H. A. Rey

• Stripes by David Shannan

• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Nadine Bernard Westcott

• The Napping House by Audrey Wood

Nonfiction Books

• All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky

• Magic School Bus Books by Joanna Cole

• Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin

• Johnny Appleseed by Jane Kurtz

• Bugs Are Insects by Anne Rockwell