Check out these reading tips for parents of beginning readers and 100 read aloud books for kids!
Reading Tips for Parents of Beginning Readers
By: Reading Rockets
Give your child lots of opportunities to read aloud. Inspire your young reader to practice every day! The tips below offer some fun ways you can help your child become a happy and confident reader. Try a new tip each week. See what works best for your family.
Don't leave home without it.
Bring along a book or magazine any time your child has to wait, such as at a doctor's office. Always try to fit in reading!
Once is not enough.
Encourage your child to re-read favorite books and poems. Re-reading helps kids read more quickly and accurately.
Dig deeper into the story.
Ask your child questions about the story you've just read. Say something like, "Why do you think Clifford did that?"
Take control of the television.
It's difficult for reading to compete with TV and video games. Encourage reading as a free-time activity.
Be patient.
When your child is trying to sound out an unfamiliar word, give him or her time to do so. Remind to child to look closely at the first letter or letters of the word.
Pick books that are at the right level.
Help your child pick books that are not too difficult. The aim is to give your child lots of successful reading experiences.
Play word games.
Have your child sound out the word as you change it from mat to fat to sat; from sat to sag to sap; and from sap to sip.
I read to you, you read to me.
Take turns reading aloud at bedtime. Kids enjoy this special time with their parents.
Gently correct your young reader.
When your child makes a mistake, gently point out the letters he or she overlooked or read incorrectly. Many beginning readers will guess wildly at a word based on its first letter.
Talk, talk, talk!
Talk with your child every day about school and things going on around the house. Sprinkle some interesting words into the conversation, and build on words you've talked about in the past.
Write, write, write!
Ask your child to help you write out the grocery list, a thank you note to Grandma, or to keep a journal of special things that happen at home. When writing, encourage your child to use the letter and sound patterns he is learning at school.
100 Read-Alouds for Elementary Aged Children
1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator – Roald Dahl
3-9. The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
10. Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
11. Stuart Little – E.B. White
12. Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
13. The BFG – Roald Dahl
14-21. The Ramona Series – Beverly Cleary
22-26. The Fudge Series – Judy Blume
28. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
29. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
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30. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Barbara Robinson
31. Bartholomew’s Passage – Arnold Ytreeide
32. Jotham’s Journey – Arnold Ytreeide
33-40. Anne of Green Gables Series – L.M. Montgomery
41-44. Magic Tree House Series – Mary Pope Osborne
45-49. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Set – Jeff Kinney
50. The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
51. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis
53. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg – Rodman Philbrick
54. How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
55. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
56. Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
57. The Ralph Mouse Collection – Beverly Cleary
58. Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective – Donald J. Sobol
59. Socks – Beverly Cleary
60. The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden
61. The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes
62. The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford
63-66. Junie B. Jones’s Series – Barbara Park
67-75. Little House on the Prairie Series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
76. Star of Light – Patricia St John
77. Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
78. The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh – A.A. Milne
79. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
80. My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
81. Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
82. James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
83. Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl
84. The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets – Roald Dahl
85. James Herriot’s Treasury for Children – James Herriot
86. The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
87. Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett
88.The Five Chinese Brothers – Claire Huchet Bishop
89. Homer Price – Robert McCloskey
90. Andrew Henry’s Meadow – Doris Burn
91. The Candymakers – Wendy Mass
92. The Trumpet of the Swan – E.B. White
93. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle – Betty McDonald
94. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – Robert O’Brien
95. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall
96. Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (Adapted for little readers)
97. Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
98. Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters – Lesley M. M. Blume
99. The Indian in the Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks
100. Freckle Juice – Judy Blume
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