Look for a book that falls into that range - the rating will usually be marked on the back of the book if not prominently featured on the cover.īut again, none of this matters if your child isn’t paying attention to the book. In general, kindergarten readers do best with Scholastic levels A through D, or DRA levels A-1 through 6. Many schools match their students to reading levels as defined by Developmental Reading Assessment criteria or by educational companies like Scholastic.
When it comes to kindergarten reading, there are some educational standards that can make things easier for teachers and parents. If you can get a list of curriculum words from your child’s kindergarten teacher, it will be a great help when building that early library. With that in mind, look for books that lean heavily on the “building blocks” of speech: Words like “the,” “me,” “here” and so forth. Seeing common words over and over again in the proper context can help your little one memorize and form a connection with them. Now, about those words: While early learning books might seem a bit repetitive to you, that won’t be a buzzkill for your child. Colorful, clearly-drawn pictures will be the first thing that draws their eye, and it won’t take long for them to connect those images to the words below them. But in this early stage, it’s important to include some visual stimuli. Once your kids get into the habit of reading, you’ll be surprised how quickly some can transition into simple chapter books. Once you find something in their wheelhouse it’s a lot easier to get a child excited about opening up the cover. By the age of 4, you should know what your kid is into, whether that’s unicorns, dinosaurs or pirates. That’s why it’s important to pick the right ones.įirst and foremost, the book should be about something that matches your child’s interests. Of course, the biggest home library in the world isn’t much good if the books don’t engage your child.
That’s aside from the obvious benefit of teaching them to read those first simple words for themselves.ĩ0% of brain growth happens in the first five years of life, and that’s why it’s important to get little eyes in front of a book well before they’re in kindergarten. Study after study reveals that fostering an early love of reading in children can help improve their attention span, spark their creativity and forge stronger family bonds. Hope you can use some of these for your beginner reader.If you love to read, it’s a good bet that somebody planted that seed early on. I’m keeping a record so that my life is easier. These are just ones that I order for every new reader. When you start searching for one, you typically can find more like it.
I know there are many more books out there. The Berenstain bears and the big red kite Here are some we enjoy.īears on wheels by Stan and Jan Berenstain Here is a sample of what the Margaret Hillert books look like inside:ĭo an author search on your libraries website to find what books they have of hers. I prefer older books as they usually portray a simpler lifestyle without all the flash to “convince” my children that reading is fun:) Here is my list of beginner reader books. If not your local library should have a copy.
Beginning readers for kindergarten for free#
You can get these online for free to read. McGuffeys Eclectic Primer is another great resource for beginning readers. Here is a sample of the text inside, lots of repetition in these books. We have this hard book copy that has multiple stories in one, but at the library they sometimes have them all separate. We typically go onto Dick and Jane books next as they are really easy as well. These books listed are easy enough for them to become independent readers with repetitive words but short stories not to overwhelm them.īob books are typically one of the first “books” we introduce to our children to read. I then start them out by doing easy reader books that we read each and every day. We start our children out on basic phonics program–included in the free kindergarten school course. Well with my 5th child, I finally got smart….I decided to make a list of the beginner readers and next step readers that we ordered so that it would be much easier every time a child would start reading. With each child, it takes me time to get them ordered and then receive them only to find that they are too hard of a level, it can get frustrating. Every child that begins to read, it seems I do an internet search and try and get all the easy readers so that I can order them from our local library. Having a large family, we go through multiple books to start the processes of reading.
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