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Book List
Book List
The following books are sorted by category and recommended for use with with young EFL learners. Scroll through the categories or click on the document below for a master list (which is coming soon).
A-z: Alphabet Books
A-z: Alphabet Books
If you're teaching the ABCs, consider supplementing the textbook with these selections.
Dr. Seuss's ABC
ABCs of Kindness
Alphabet City
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Surfing Animals Alphabet
Eric Carle's ABC
Number Books
Number Books
Try out these books to make number lessons more engaging.
One to Ten and Back Again
Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons
Ten Flashing Fireflies
City by Numbers
Color Books
Color Books
These books are sure to spice up any lesson about colors.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Where’s the Green Sheep?
Little Green Peas
A Color of His Own
Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
If you’re looking for books about Dragon Boat Festival, consider these three titles.
One is a Drummer
Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival
Our Double Fifth Celebration: Dragon Boat Festival
Taiwan-Related Books
Taiwan-Related Books
If you want to incorporate some books about Taiwan, Taiwanese Culture or written by Taiwanese authors, try these selections
--Taitung Vacation by Matt Andrews
--Amah Faraway by Margaret Chiu Greanias
--Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte
--My Name is Hannah by Belle Yang
--I Dream of Popo by Livia Blackburne
--Typhoon Holidays by Yi Ling Hsu
--A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
Picture Dictionaries
Picture Dictionaries
If you’re looking for picture dictionaries for the classroom, consider starting with these. Thanks to Dr. H for the suggestions!
Oxford Picture Dictionary
Oxford Children’s Picture Dictionary
Oxford Children’s English-Chinese Picture Dictionary
Ladybird Dictionary
Times 1000 Word Dictionary
STEAM Books
STEAM Books
If you're looking for some STEAM-related books, try these. Many of the books link perfectly with STEAM activities. They're great for winter or summer camps or the regular classoom. Thanks to Sandy Yeh for the recommendations!
How Tall Was a T-Rex?
Anywhere Farm
The Grapes of Math
How to Make a Cherry Pie and see the U.S.A
What If You Had Animal Teeth?
What if You Had Animal Eyes?
I Want to Eat This!
Balancing Act
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
I Don’t Want to be a Frog
Five Tough and Tiny Seeds
Things That Float and Things That Don’t
Rosa’s Big Shadow Puppet
Rosa’s Big Pizza Experiment
R0sa’s Big Bridge Experiment
Planet Rescue
Rosa’s Big Bird Feeder Experiment
Soup Day
Magnets Push Magnets Pull
Bugs
How Did That Get in My Lunchbox?
The Vegetables We Eat
Feathers Not Just for Flying
Infographic for Kids: Activity Book
Diary of a Worm
Me and the Measure of Things
A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds
Stellaluna
Each Orange Had 8 Slices
Not a Stick
What If There Were No Bees?
Junior High School
Junior High School
Simple Books, Deep Topics
Simple Books, Deep Topics
The Giving Tree:
A tree loves a little boy and gives him everything she has.
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all.
A Bear is a Bear
A bear who wakes up too early and has forgotten that he is a bear
I Like, I Don't Like
A brutally honest and important conversation starter about child labor and poverty
Online Reading Platforms
Online Reading Platforms
If you are looking for an online reading platform, try these. Epic is especially useful as your .edu account allows access to tons of books.
Epic!
Epic gives you access to thousands of online books. With your .edu account you get access to a school account which unlocks thousands of books.
Reading A to Z
Thousands of downloadable, books and materials to aid effective reading instruction.
Vooks
A library of storybooks brought to life through videos.
YouTube
Search the name of your book, add read aloud and you should be able to find pretty much any book out there. Use as is or screen shot each page as needed.
StoryBooks for the Classroom
StoryBooks for the Classroom
Scroll through the folders below to access hundreds of storybooks in pdf or ppt format~
Be sure to share any particularly great stories you use in the classroom!
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