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Echo Reading

I Went Walking                                                            Sue Williams

Bears in Pairs                                                               Niki Yekai

Dinosaur Roar!                                                              Paul & Henrietta Strickland

Animal Kisses                                                                Barney Saltzberg

In the Small, Small Pond                                               Denise Fleming

 

Paired Reading

Time for Bed                                                                Mem Fox

Silly Sally                                                                    Audrey Wood

One Duck Stuck                                                            Phyllis Root

Dinosaur Stomp                                                 Paul & Henrietta Strickland

Duck in the Truck                                                         Jez Alborough

Dogs Don’t Wear Sneakers                                            Laura Numeroff

The Very Busy Spider, The Very Quiet

Cricket, The Very Lonely Firefly (etc)                           Eric Carle

 

Asking Questions and Prediction

Mary Wore Her Red Dress                                            Merle Peek

Is Your Mama a Llama?                                                 Deborah Guarino

Look                                                                             Ana Hoban

Bark, George                                                                Jules Feiffer

Do’s and Don’ts                                                             Todd Parr

Says Who?                                                                   David Carter

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry,

and the Big Hungry Bear                                               Don Wood

Spot Series                                                                  David Hill

To Market, To Market                                                   Anne Miranda

Stephanie’s Ponytail                                                      Robert Munsch

No Jumping on the Bed                                                 Tedd Arnold

Q is for Duck                                                               Mary Elting & Michael Folsom

 

Wordless Books

Good Dog, Carl Series                                                   Alexandra Day

Good Night, Gorilla                                                       Emily Arnold McCully

Deep in the Forest                                                        Brindon Turkle

Picnic (series)                                                               Emily Arnold McCully

Pancakes for Breakfast                                                Tomie DePaola

Anno’s Counting Book                                                    Mitsumasa Anno

The Snowman                                                               Raymond Briggs

Changes, Changes                                                          Pat Hutchins

Will’s Mammoth                                                 Rafe Martin                                         

A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog                                              Mercer Mayer

 

Reader’s Theatre

From Head to Toe                                                         Eric Carle

Clap Your Hands                                                           Pat Hutchins

Five Little Monkeys Jumping…                                        Eileen Christelow

You’re Just What I Need                                              Ruth Krauss

The Seals on the Bus                                                     Lenny Hort

There was an Old Lady….                                               Various Authors

The Wide-Mouthed Frog                                               Kevin Faulkner

Hand Rhymes                                                                Marc Brown

Cat’s Cradle                                                                  Anne Ackers Johnson

 

Books for Older Kids/Reluctant Readers

 

Tuesday (Wordless)                                                      David Weisner

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing                Judi Barrett

Freefall (Wordless)                                                      David Weisner

The Silver Pony (Wordless)                                           Lynd Ward

The Silly, Slimy, Smelly, Hairy Book                             Babette Cole

The Jolly Postman                                                         Janet Ahlberg

A Porcupine Named Fluffy                                            Helen Lester

Green Wilma                                                                 Tedd Arnold

Parts/More Parts                                                          Tedd Arnold

Tacky the Penguin                                                         Helen Lester

Cinder Edna                                                                  Ellen Jackson

The Stinky Cheeseman

    and Other Fairly Stupid Tales                                   Jon Scieszka

The Three Pigs                                                             David Weisner

Olive, the Other Reindeer                                             J. Otto Seibold

Stand Back, Said the Elephant                                      Patricia Thomas

The Adventures of Hank the Cowdog                             John Erickson

CDB (also great for critical thinking!)                            William Stieg

June 29, 1999                                                              David Weisner

The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come Down                               Paul Brett Johnson

The Polar Bear Waltz                                                    Outside Magazine Editors

Sitting Ducks                                                                Michael Bedard

Kiss the Cow                                                                 Phyllis Root

Click Clack Moo.  Cows that Type                                  Dorren Cronin  

 

Especially Good For Visual Learners

I Spy Series                                                                 Walter Wick

Stephen Biesty’s Cross Sections Series             Stephen Biesty

Fun With Hand Shadows                                               Sati Achath

Look-Alikes                                               Joan Steiner

King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub                                        Audrey Wood

Optical Tricks                                                              Walter Wick

Something’s Not Quite Right                                          Guy Billout

Zoom    (also Re-zoom)                                                  Istvan Banyal

The Grey Lady and the Strawberry

   Snatcher                                                                   Molly Bang

 

 

Suggestions Addressing Specific Communicative Disorders

 

Phonolgoical Awareness

Ape in a Cape                                                                Fritz Eichenberg

There’s an Ant in Anthony                                            

The Pig in the Spigot                                                     Richard Wilbur

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for

Kindergarten                                                                Joseph Slate

Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash                                 Sarah Weeks

Sheep in a Jeep                                                            Nancy Shaw

The Hungry Thing                                                         Jan Slepian

Cock-A-Doodle-Moo                                                      Bernard Most

Any book with a strong rhyming component

 

Phonological Working Memory

Progressive Stories such as

In a  Napping House                                                     Audrey Wood

Drummer Hoff Fired it Off                                           Barbara Emberly

The House that Jack Built                                             Various versions available

 

Phonological Naming

Imagine (also for vocabulary)

Picture books (e.g. Richard Scarry)

 

Articulation

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke                                Pamela Duncan Edwards

Dinorella                                                                      Pamela Duncan Edwards

Some Smug Slug                                                           Pamela Duncan Edwards

 

 

Semantics/Early Oral Vocabulary

Opposites                                                                     Mary Novik

Rosie’s Walk                                                                 Pat Hutchins

I Love You, Sun.  I Love You, Moon                               Karen Randell

Goodnight, Moon

Spot Series

This Train

 

 

 

Syntax and Morphology

The Wind Blew (Past Tense)                                         Pat Hutchins    

Thomas’ Snowsuit (Possessive ‘s)                                   Robert Munsch

I Went Visiting (Present progressive)                            Sue Williams

Millions of Cats (plural s)                                             

Eight Ate                                                                     

A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink                                       Brian Cleary

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: (Adverbs)                          Brian Cleary

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary (Adjectives)                             Brian Cleary

Punctuation Takes a Vacation                                        Robin Pulver

 

Figurative Language

The King Who Rained                                                    Fred Gwynne

Chocolate Moose for Dinner                                          Fred Gwynne

Quick as a Cricket                                                        Audrey Wood

Aesop’s Fables                                                              Guess Who?!!

More Parts                                                                    Tedd Arnold

Squids Will Be Squids                                                   Jon Scieszka

Mad as a Wet Hen                                                        Maran Terban

It Figures                                                                     Maran Terban

You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover                             Judith Scheinlin

            (also good for pragmatics)

 

Pragmatics

Yo! Yes?                                                                       Chris Raschka  

Junie B. Jones                                                              Barbara Park

No, David                                                                     David Shannon

Velcome                                                                        Kevin O’Malley

How to Lose All of Your Friends                                   Nancy Carlson

The Three  Little Wolves and the Big, Bad Pig               Helen Oxbury /Eugene Trivizas

What Do You Say, Dear?                                               Mercer Mayer

 

Critical Thinking Skills

Tomorrow’s Alphabet                                                    Gearge Shannon

The Mitten                                                                    Jan Brett

Two Bad Ants                                                               Chris Van Allsberg

Elephants Airplane                                                         Anne-Marie Dalmais       

That’s Good. That’s Bad.                                      Margery Cuyler

Giggle, Giggle, Quack                                                   Doreen Cronin

  

           

PRIMARY REFERENCE:

Robertson, S., & Davig, H. (2002).  Read With Me!  Stress-Free Strategies for Building Language and Literacy.  Thinking Publications                        

 
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