Reading, Ages 4-6

First Grade, First Chapter Books

 

            Today's Snack: What is the first snack most people have? Probably applesauce. So try a little bowl, maybe with some cinnamon sprinkled on, and wash it down with what is probably everybody's first juice to try - apple juice!

 

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Here are some good ideas for those first "read-at-home" chapter books. You should be able to find these at the public library, or, if it's your child's very first chapter book, consider buying it in paperback at a local bookstore.

 

This is a special occasion! When your child is ready for a chapter book, you can get ready to rejoice that your child is now an independent reader.

 

Reading all the way through a chapter book is an important milestone that signals to a young child that he or she is now, officially, a READER!

 

You might want to keep the first chapter book in a hope chest or memory tub for your child's important school papers and memories. If it's true that "a book is a friend," it would be meaningful for your child to hang on to that first chapter-book friend!

 

 

 

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, etc., by Paul Danzinger

 

            Catwings, Ursula K. LeGuin

 

            Go Fish, Mary Stoltz

 

            Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, etc., by Barbara Park

 

            Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? Louis Sachar

 

            The Missing Fossil Mystery, Emily Herman

 

            Pirate's Promise, The Chalk Box Kid, etc., Cylde Robert Bulla

 

            Sarah, Plain and Tall, and Skylark, by Patricia MacLachlan

 

            The Stories Julian Tells, Ann Carmeron

 

            Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling