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Suggested Level and Books
Title Author
Do You Want to Be My Friend? Eric Carle
Have You Seen My Cat? Eric Carle
Have You Seen My Duckling Nancy Tafuri
Pancakes for Breakfast Tomie dePaola
Yo! Yes? Chris Raschka
Good Night Gorilla Peggy Rathman
Sight Word Practice:
At these levels of text it is imperative that your child begin to create a known bank of sight words.
Fun Ways to Practice Sight Words:
1. Write sight words on post its around the house. Have your child go hunting for words and when she
finds one, she must read it to you.
2. Write a few words with chalk on the driveway. Say one of the words and your child must run to stand
on the word.
3. Write words with magnetic letters, on whiteboards, or in sand.
4. Practice words with back writing. Have your child turn around and use your finger to trace a word on
the back. See if your child can feel the word you were writing. Take turns to practice sight word
spelling.
5. As you read higher level books to your child, go on a sight word hunt. After reading the book through
one time, go back and hunt for any sight words your child might know.
Make Your Own Books:
Level A and B books typically follow a pattern of 1 or 2 sentences on a page. Often, the pattern changes on the
last page. In this level of text you will find many beginning sight words and high levels of picture support.
To Make Your Own Level A/B book:
1. Think of a pattern (i.e. I see the… I see the… I see the… or Here comes a… Here comes a...). As you
read, introduce your child to the pattern before reading. You might even want to show them with
magnetic letters or on a white board the sight words in the pattern so the words will be familiar to your
child when she sees them in text. Once your child has started reading, encourage her to point under each
word as she reads.
2. Draw or find clear pictures to match each sentence. Encourage your child to “check the picture” at
points of difficulty when reading.
3. Change the pattern on the last page to create a surprise sentence. Help your child figure out the pattern
change together as you read.
Suggested Level Books
Title Author
Brand New Readers series Candlewick Press
Cat the Cat series Mo Willems
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Eric Carle
What’s For Lunch? Eric Carle
The Fox on the Box Barbara Gregorich
I Want a Pet Barbara Gregorich
I Went Walking Sue Williams
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails Nancy Tafuri
Things I Like Anthony Browne
Cat and Dog Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Suggested Level Books
Title Author
Tiny the Dog series Carl Meister
Sam series Barbro Lindgren
The Chick and the Duckling Mirra Ginsberg
Bears in the Night Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bears on Wheels Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bears, Bears Everywhere Stan and Jan Berenstain
Feathers for Lunch Lois Ehlert
Five Little Monsters Rozanne Lanczak Williams
One Happy Classroom Charnan Simon
Freddie and Flossie and the Leaf Monster Laura Lee Hope
Freddie and Flossie and The Train Ride Laura Lee Hope
Puppy Mudge Has a Snack Cynthia Rylant
Puppy Mudge Loves His Blanket Cynthia Rylant
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Gossie series Olivier Dunrea
Life of Max series Adria Klein
Dear Dragon series Margaret Hillert
Puppy Sam series Mary LaBatt
Dinosaurs Dance Larry Brimmer
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Eileen Christelow
The Foot Book Dr. Seuss
Go, Dog, Go P.D. Eastman
I Wish I Had Duck Feet Dr. Seuss
The Eye Book Dr. Seuss
Fire Fire Said Mrs. McGuire Bill Martin
It Looked Like Spilt Milk Charles Shaw
My Five Senses Aliki
All By Myself Mercer Mayer
Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins
Puppy Mudge Finds a Friend Cynthia Rylant
Puppy Mudge Wants to Play Cynthia Rylant
Play Ball! (Pete the Cat) James Dean
Too Cool for School (Pete the Cat) James Dean
Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons (Toon Books) Agnes Rosentiehl
Morris the Moose Bernard Wiseman
Just Clowning Around David McPhail
Suggested Level Books
Title Author
Robot and Rico series Anastasia Suen
Chick and Chickie in Play All Day (Toon Books) Claude Ponti
A Pet for Pete (Pete the Cat) James Dean
Pete at the Beach (Pete the Cat) James Dean
Puppy Mudge Takes a Bath Cynthia Rylant
Across the Stream Mirra Ginsburg
Cookie’s Week Cindy Ward
Hooray for Snail John Stadler
Itchy Itchy Chicken Pox Grace Maccarone
Pizza Party! Grace Maccarone
Soccer Game Grace Maccarone
“What is That?” Said the Cat Grace Maccarone
Just Like Daddy Frank Asch
The Lady with the Alligator Purse Nadine Westcott
Shhhh Kevin Henkes
Who Will Be My Friends? Syd Hoff
Tiger is a Scaredy Cat Joan Phillips
Clifford’s Puppy Days Norman Bridwell
Can I Play too? Mo Willems
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Biscuit series Cynthia Rylant
Pup and Hound series Susan Hood
Noodle series Hans Wilhelm
Digger and Daisy series Judy Young
Robin Hill School series Margaret McNamara
Are You Ready to Play Outside? Mo Willems
Carl and the Baby Duck Alexandra Day
Carl and the Kitten Alexandra Day
Carl and the Sick Puppy Alexandra Day
David Gets in Trouble David Shannon
No David David Shannon
The Great Race David McPhail
More Spaghetti I Say Rita Gelman
One Monday Morning Uri Shulevitz
Sheep on a Ship Nancy Shaw
Sheep in a Jeep Nancy Shaw
Snail Saves the Day John Stadler
The Carrot Seed Robert Kraus
Buzz Said the Bee Wendy Lewinson
I Want to Be Somebody New Robert Lopshire
The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat Nurit Karlin
New House for Mouse and Mole Harriet Zieffert
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Little Mouse series Robert Kraus
Titch series Pat Hutchins
Danny and the Dinosaur series Syd Hoff
Fly Guy series Tedd Arnold
Pigeon board book series Mo Willems
Oliver Robert Kraus
Sammy the Seal Syd Hoff
Captain Cat Syd Hoff
Mo Jackson David A. Adler
Good Night, Owl Pat Hutchins
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer
George Shrinks William Joyce
Katie Woo and Her Big Ideas Fran Manushkin
Katie Woo, Where Are You? Fran Manushkin
A Nervous Night (Katie Woo) Fran Manushkin
A Kiss For Little Bear Else H. Minarik
Put Me in the Zoo Robert Lopshire
My Friend Rabbit Eric Rohmann
Leon the Chameleon Melanie Watt
Nina, Nina Ballerina Jane O’Connor
Nina, Nina and the Copycat Ballerina Jane O’Connor
Should I Share My Ice-Cream Mo Willems
Sheep Blast Off Nancy E. Shaw
Suggested Level Books
Title Author
The Pigeon series Mo Willems
Elephant and Piggie series Mo Willems
Dragon Tales series Dav Pilkey
How Do Dinosaurs…? series Jane Yolen
Maisy First Experience series Lucy Cousins
Messy Bessy series Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Otto series (Passport to Reading Level 1) Todd Parr
Leo the Late Bloomer Robert Kraus
Lola at the Library Anna McQuinn
Moo, Katie Woo Fran Manushkin
Who Needs Glasses? (Katie Woo) Fran Manushkin
Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman
Hattie and the Fox Mem Fox
The Relatives Came Cynthia Rylant
Noisy Nora Rosemary Wells
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and
the Big Hungry Bear
Don and Audrey Wood
Sugar Snow (My First Little House books) Laura Ingalls Wilder
Summertime in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder
Two Crazy Pigs Karen Berman Nagel
My Tooth is About to Fall Out Grace Maccarone
Hiccups for Elephant James Preller
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Poppleton series Cynthia Rylant
Fox series James Marshall
Henry and Mudge series Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Putter and Tabby series Cynthia Rylant
Katie Woo series (most) Fran Manushkin
Little Bear series (most) Else Holmelund Minarik
Iris and Walter series Elissa Haden Guest
Curious George series H.A. and Margret Ray
Cork and Fuzz series Dori Chaconas
Young Cam Jansen series David Adler
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion
Harry and the Lady Next Door Gene Zion
Beezy at Bat Megan McDonald
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Betsy Lewin
Owl at Home Arnold Lobel
Mouse Soup Arnold Lobel
Peter’s Chair Ezra Jack Keats
Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman
Winter Days in the Big Woods (My First Little
House Books)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Going to Town (My First Little House Books) Laura Ingalls Wilder
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Zelda and Ivy series Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Bones Mysteries series David Adler
Pete the Cat (original) series James Dean
Frog and Toad series Arnold Lobel
Minnie and Moo series Denis Cazet
Commander Toad series Jane Yolen
Frances series Russell Hoban
The Golly Sisters series Betsy Byars
M & M series Pat Ross
Jamaica series Juanita Havill
Nate the Great series Marjorie Sharmat
Froggy series Jonathan London
Franklin series Paulette Bourgeois
Arthur series Marc Brown
Mercy Watson series (most) Kate DiCamillo
Lionel series Stephen Krensky
If You Give a… series Laura Numeroff
Ling and Ting series Grace Lin
Houndsley and Catina series James Howe
Here Comes the Strikeout Leonard Kessler
Sheila Rae, the Brave Kevin Henkes
Whistle for Willie Ezra Jack Keats
The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Cam Jansen series David Adler
Horrible Harry series Suzy Kline
Amelia Bedelia series Peggy Parrish
George and Martha series James Marshall
Pinky and Rex series James Howe
Peewee Scouts series Judy Delton
Tales of Amanda Pig/ Oliver Pig series Jean VanLeeuwen
Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot series Dav Pilkey
Olivia Sharpe (Nate the Great’s Cousin) series Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
The Werewolf Club series Daniel and Jill Pinkwater
Mouse and Mole series Wong Herbert Yee
Milo and Jazz Mysteries series Lewis B. Montgomery
Polk Street Kids series Patricia Reilly Giff
Most books by Robert Munsch Robert Munsch
Tooter Pepperday Jerry Spinelli
Miss Nelson is Missing James Marshall
Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse Leo Lionni
Gregory the Terrible Eater Mitchell Sharmat
The Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter Matt Christopher
Those Shoes Maribeth Boelts
Suggested Level Books
Title Author
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Face-Off Jake Maddox
The Littles series John L. Peterson
Katie Kazoo series Nancy Krulik
Stink series Megan McDonald
Judy Moody series Megan McDonald
My Weird School series Dan Gutman
Magic Tree House series Mary Pope Osborne
Bailey School Kids series Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Buddy, The First Seeing Eye Dog Eva Moore
George Washington’s Mother Jean Fritz
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express Margaret K. Wetterer
How a House is Built Gail Gibbons
Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked the World! Mark Dubowski
Boris (Scholastic Branches series) Andrew Joyner
Missy’s Super Duper Royal Deluxe series Susan Nees
Haggis and Tank Unleashed series Jessica Young
Owl Diaries (Scholastic Branches series) Rebecca Elliot
Stuart Goes to School Sara Pennypacker
Stuart’s Cape Sara Pennypacker
Press Start series Thomas Flintham
Princess Black series Shannon Hale
Suggested Level Books Title Author
The Chocolate Touch Patrick Skene Catling
Donavan’s Word Jar Monalisa DeGross
The Enormous Crocodile Roald Dahl
Lily and Miss Liberty Carla Stevens
The Magic Finger Roald Dahl
My Name is Maria Isabel Alma F. Ada
Shoeshine Girl Clyde R. Bulla
Shark Attack! Cathy East Dubowski
Louis Braille, The Boy Who Invented Books for
the Blind
Margaret Davidson
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln Jean Fritz
How a Book Is Made Aliki
Amber Brown series Paula Danziger
A-Z Mysteries series Ron Roy
The Zack Files series Dan Greenburg
Franny K. Stein series Jim Benton
The Secrets of Droon Tony Abbott
A Big Day for Baseball Mary Pope Osborne
A Matter of Fact Magic Book series Ruth Chew
Ballpark Mysteries series David A. Kelly
Brand-New School, Brave New Ruby Derrick Barnes
Stella and the Night Sprites series Sam Hay and Turine Tran
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Baseball Saved Us Ken Mochizuki
Chocolate Fever Robert K. Smith
The Boxcar Children series Gertrude C. Warner
Class Clown Johanna Hurwitz
The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes
The Legend of the Bluebonnet Tomie dePaola
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
Ramona Quimby series Beverly Cleary
Clementine series Sara Pennypacker
Jake Drake series Andrew Clements
Ant Cities Arthur Dorros
The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth Jean L.S. Parnell
Ten True Animal Rescues Jeanne Betancourt
What’s The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Jean Fritz
Looniverse series David Lubar
Lotus Lane Girls Club series Kyla May
Monkey Me series Timothy Roland
The Notebook of Doom series Troy Cummings
Silver Pony Ranch series D.L. Green and Emily Wallis
Dragon Masters series Tracey West and Graham Howells
Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe
series
Norah Z. Jones
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl
George’s Marvelous Medicine Roald Dahl
Sideways Stories series Louis Sachar
Timewarp Trio Jon Scieska
Through Grandpa’s Eyes Patricia MacLachlan
Dinosaur Bones Aliki
Brainstorm! Tom Tucker
The Land I Lost Quang Nhuong Huynh
Bad Kitty Gets a Bath Nick Bruel
Bad Kitty School Daze Nick Bruel
Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray Nick Bruel
Stick Dog series Tom Watson
Fourth Grade is a Jinx Colleen McKenna
Full Court Dreams Jake Maddox
Look Who’s Playing First Base Matt Christopher
Little Lefty Matt Christopher
Mallory series Laurie Friedman
Max Flash Mission series Jonny Zucker
Jake Maddox graphic novel series Jake Maddox
Squish series Jennifer L. Holm
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale Mystery James Howe
Fudge series Judy Blume
James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Original Adventures of Hank, the Cowdog John R. Erickson
Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard
Punished David Lubar
Anastasia Krupnik series Lois Lowry
Sam Krupnik series Lois Lowry
Chet Gecko series Bruce Hale
Fourth Grade Rats Jerry Spinelli
The Year of the Dog Grace Lin
The Get Rich Quick Club Dan Gutman
Humphrey series Betty G. Birney
Spiderwick Chronicles series Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
The Sasquatch Escape Suzanne Selfors
A Dog Called Homeless Sarah Lean
Lacrosse Firestorm Matt Christopher
Jake Maddox Sports series Jake Maddox
Girls to the Rescue series Bruce Lansky
Baby Mouse series Jennifer L. Holm
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
Frindle Andrew Clements
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Sarah, Plain, and Tall Patricia MacLachlan
Shiloh Phyllis R. Naylor
The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman
The Great Migration Jacob Lawrence
Mummies Made in Egypt Aliki
Mummies! Secret of the Dead Harriet Griffey
Lunch Money Andrew Clements
They Came From Center Field Dan Gutman
The Report Card Andrew Clements
Spider Boy Ralph Fletcher
The TV Kid Betsy Byars
Shredderman series Wendelin Van Draanen
Fig Pudding Ralph Fletcher
The Wild Robot Peter Brown
Finding Serendipity Angelica Banks
The Homework Machine Dan Gutman
Numbed! David Lubar
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Flying Solo Ralph Fletcher
The Dollhouse Murders series Betty Ren Wright
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson
A Boy Called Slow Joseph Bruchac
The Nameless City Faith Erin Hicks
President of the Whole Fifth Grade Sherri Winston
Big Nate series Lincoln Peirce
Out of My Mind Sharon M. Draper
The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate
My Life as a Book Janet Tashjian and Jake Tashjian
Emily Windsnap series Liz Kessler
The Lemonade War Jacqueline Davies
The Borrower series Mary Norton
Million Dollar Sports series Dan Gutman
Artemis the Loyal: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub
Persephone the Phony:: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub
11 Birthdays Wendy Mass
Lunch Lady series Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Boys vs. Girls series Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Dog Diaries Kate Klimo
Suggested Level Books
Title Author
Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Jack Gantos
The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis
Love That Dog Sharon Creech
Something Upstairs Avi
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil
War Spy
Seymour Reit
Boy: Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl
Earthquakes Seymour Simon
The Thing About Georgie Lisa Graff
All the Answers Kate Messner
Ida B… and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly)
Save the World
Katharine Hannigan
Penderwicks series Jeanne Birdsall
Athena the Wise: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub
The Girl Games: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub
Aphrodite the Diva: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub
My Life as a Gamer Janet Tashjian
I Funny series James Patterson
Middle School series James Patterson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Jeff Kinney
Close to Famous Joan Bauer
Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolan
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Tom Angleberger
Smile Raina Telgemeier
Deltora Quest series Emily Rodda
Suggested Level Books Title Author
My Life as a Stuntboy Janet Tashjian
Charlie Bones series Jenny Nimmo
The BFG Roald Dahl
The Sisters Grimm series Michael Buckley
The 39 Clues series Rick Riordan
Eggs Jerry Spinelli
Wringer Jerry Spinelli
Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine
Loser Jerry Spinelli
Nothing But the Truth Avi
The Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars
Tangerine Edward Bloor
The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg
Insects Bettina Bird
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo
Knots in My Yo-Yo String Jerry Spinelli
Every Soul a Star Wendy Mass
Warriors series Erin Hunter
Survivors series Erin Hunter
Mandela Floyd Cooper
The Silk Route John S. Major
The Key to Extraordinary Natalie Lloyd
Half Upon a Time James Riley
Tapper Twins series Geoff Rodkey
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Powerless Matthew Cody
Absolutely Almost Lisa Graff
Star Girl Jerry Spinelli
Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling
Princess Academy Shannon Hale
Holes Louis Sachar
Absolutely Normal Chaos Sharon Creech
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit
The Westing Game Ellen Raskin
Ellis Island R. Conrad Stein
Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson Barry Denenberg
The Underground Railroad R. Conrad Stein
Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye
The Adventurer’s Guide to Successful Escapes Albert Wade White
The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse Brian Farrey
Raymie Nightingale Kate DiCamillo
Wonder R.J. Palacio
Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories R.J. Palacio
The Mysterious Benedict Society Stewart Trenton
A Series of Unfortunate Event series Lemony Snicket
Fablehaven series Brandon Mull
Heat Mike Lupica
Million Dollar Throw Mike Lupica
Suggested Level Books Title Author
Hope Was Here Joan Bauer
Chomp Carl Hiaasen
Scat Carl Hiaasen
The City of Ember series Jeanne DuPrau
Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick
Wonderstruck Brian Selznick
I am Not Joey Pigza Jack Gantos
Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Apothecary Maile Meloy
Bad Magic Pseudonymous Bosch
Percy Jackson series Rick Riordan
100 Cupboards series N.D. Wilson
Inkheart Cornelia Funke
Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
Hero Mike Lupica
Kane Chronicles series Rick Riordan
The Secret Keepers Trenton Lee Stewart
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized
Autobiography
Lemony Snicket