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Book Title Suggestions by Months of the School Year
Key: PS and a year number means there is a Peggy Sharp strategy page for the year indicated.
| Month | Title |
|---|---|
| Sep | Dewey There's a Cat in the Library! by Vicki Myron |
| Sep | "L" is for Library E TERry great for library orientation |
| Sep | Jake Starts School by Michael Wright |
| Sep | Don"t Squeal Unless It"s a Big Deal A Tale of Tattletales E RANsom |
| Sep | Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems |
| Sep | A Puppy for Annie by Kim Lewis |
| Sep | First Grade Here I Come |
| Sep | The 3 Bears and Goldilocks E WILley; cause and effect, because Goldi doesn"t listen to her father, she goes where she doesn't belong |
| Sep | Mind your manners, B.B. Wolf E SIErra; library manners |
| Sep | The Bears in the Bed and the Great Big Storm E BRIght |
| Sep | Wild About Books E SIErra / P.S. Nov. 04 |
| Sep | A Visitor for Bear E BECker; making a new friend |
| Sep | Walking through the jungle |
| Sep | Rock it sock Number line by E Martin |
| Sep | The Barking Mouse E SACre |
| Sep | Growing up feet E CLEary and talk about schema: framework of experience |
| Sep | Best Friends by E Kellogg |
| Sep | A Pocket for Corduroy by E FREeman |
| Sep | When an elephant comes to school E ORMerod/ P.S. Aug. 2005 |
| Sep | What Grandmas do best E NUMeroff |
| Sep | Big Friends E CUYler |
| Sep | The Magic Hat E FOX/ P.S. strategy page -- rhyming activity |
| Sep | Peek! A Thai hide-and-Seek E HO |
| Sep | The Guinea Pig ABC E DUKe |
| Sep | Maybe a Bear Ate It! by Robie H. HarrisE HAR |
| Sep | The Problem with Chickens E MCMillan/ PS 2006 |
| Sep | On My Very First Day Of School I Met E STIles/ PS use to intro character-tell us more about the monster |
| Sep | The Great Pig Escape E CHRistelow |
| Sep | Papa and Me E DORros boy and dad visiting grandparents |
| Sep | The Best Book to Read E BERtram |
| Sep | Grandpa Gazillions Number yard E KELler |
| Oct | Little Lost Bat 599.4 MARkle |
| Oct | Professor Bumble and the monster of the deep E NAPp; cute bear and otter story |
| Oct | Thing-Thing by Cary Fagan |
| Oct | Mrs. O"Leary"s Cow 782.42 HOBerman; fire safety |
| Oct | Hello, Bumblebee Bat E 599.4 LUNde |
| Oct | Pee Wee Scouts FIC DELton/ pledge |
| Oct | She Did it E ERIcsson |
| Oct | Friends and Pals and Brothers, Too E WILson; rhyming text; seasons |
| Oct | Oh No, Got to Go E ELYa |
| Oct | Swimmy E LEOnni |
| Oct | Frederick E LEOnni |
| Oct | The Alphabet Tree E LEOnni |
| Oct | Click, Clack moo E Cronin |
| Oct | Giggle, giggle, quack E Cronin |
| Oct | Little Bat"s halloween story by E Mayr |
| Oct | The Spooky Halloween Party by E Prager |
| Oct | Hieronymus Betts and his Unusual Pets E ROBertson-little brother in a devil suit connects to Max in the wild things |
| Oct | The Bumby little pumpkin E CUYler |
| Oct | I love my little storybook E JERam/ P.S. strategy page |
| Oct | My Friend the Moon E DAHan |
| Oct | A Tiger Named Thomas (order) |
| Oct | There Are Monsters Everywhere E MAYer/ PS |
| Oct | Chato Goes Cruisin" E SOTo/PS |
| Oct | Minnie and Moo meet Frankenswine E CAZet |
| Oct | Bumpy Little Pumpkin E CUYler |
| Oct | The Dog Who Belonged to No one E HESt; great fall illustrations |
| Oct | Little Hoot E ROSenthal; little hoot & his parents display the opposite of what children think at bedtime: point of view |
| Nov | Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes |
| Nov | Armadilly Chili by Helen Ketteman |
| Nov | Tooth on the Loose by Susan Middleton Elya |
| Nov | Hungry Hen E WARing |
| Nov | Too Many Toys E SHAnnon; sorting, decision making, cardboard box |
| Nov | Duck Soup E URBanovic Connects with Armadilly Chili but friends help too much |
| Nov | Gobble It Up! A Fun Song About Eating includes a CD E ARNosky |
| Nov | Yoko E Wells |
| Nov | Duck for President E Cronin |
| Nov | Wild Boars Cook E ROSoff |
| Nov | Koala Lou E Fox |
| Nov | The Dot E Reynolds |
| Nov | The Crayon Box that talked E Derolf |
| Nov | The Doorbell Rang by E HUTchins |
| Nov | A Turkey for Thanksgiving by E BUNting |
| Nov | Science Fair Bunnies E LASky |
| Nov | The Firefighters" Thanksgiving E BOElts *PS Many people work on holidays. Discuss workers who have to work such as airline employees, ambulance drivers, bus drivers, hospital workers, police officers |
| Nov | Petunia E DUVoinsin |
| Nov | Dogs Don"t wear sneakers E NUMeroff |
| Nov | Squiggle"s Tale E DAHan |
| Nov | Humbug Witch E BALian (order) |
| Nov | Badger"s Fancy Meal E KASza POV What badger doesn"t like is yummy to other animals |
| Nov | What"s Under the Bed? E FENton; imagination; drawing conclusions without supporting facts |
| Nov | One Boy E SEEger counting and using parts of words to make new words: math topic |
| Nov | Jenny Found a Penny E HARris; adding money; cause and effect: math topic |
| Dec | The Three Bears" Christmas E Duval |
| Dec | The Puppy who wanted a boy by E THAyer |
| Dec | Growing Up With Tamales by Gwendolyn Zepeda |
| Dec | There was an old lady who swallowed a bell! by Lucille Colandro |
| Dec | The Night Before Christmas in Texas that is by E HARris |
| Dec | Christmas in the Country by E RYLant |
| Dec | Stanley and the Class Pet by Barney Saltzberg |
| Dec | Little Red Bird by Nick Bruel |
| Dec | One Mitten E GEOrge/ P.S. Jan. 2005 |
| Dec | The First Day of Winter E FLEming/ P.S. Nov. 2005 |
| Dec | Dear Santa E CAMpbell/ P.S. Nov. 04 |
| Dec | How Santa Really works E SNOw / P.S. Nov. 04 |
| Dec | If you Take a Mouse to the Movies E NUMeroff |
| Dec | Popcorn tree E MAMchur |
| Dec | Stick Man by Julia Donaldson |
| Dec | Our Apple tree 634 NASlund |
| Jan | Fletcher and the fallling leaves E RAWlinson |
| Jan | Hooray for Reading Day! E CUYler |
| Jan | The Robot and the Bluebird E LUCas; connects with recycling, symbolical meaning to carry love in your heart as the bluebird makes a nest in the robots chest area |
| Jan | Silent Letters Loud and Clear E PULver spelling |
| Jan | Duck at the Door & Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic |
| Jan | Snowball E Ehlert |
| Jan | Beatrice Doesn't Want To by Laura Joffe Numeroff |
| Jan | When Lucy Goes Out Walking A Puppy's first year by Ashley Wolff E WOL months of the year |
| Jan | Some Things Go Together by Charlotte Zolotow connects with how things are alike |
| Jan | Black? White! Day? Night! A Book of Opposites by Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
| Jan | Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show E CRUmmel, bull attached to blankie, cause and effect |
| Jan | Happy birthday Martin Luther King B KING |
| Jan | Kitten"s first full moon by E Henkes |
| Jan | Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: a Tale of a Very Greedy Cat by Meilo So |
| Jan | Hurty Feelings by E LESter |
| Jan | Listen Buddy by Helen Lester |
| Jan | Tacky the Penguin E LESter |
| Jan | Alphabet Mystery E WOOd |
| Jan | Alphabet Adventure E WOOd |
| Jan | The Snowy Day E KEAts |
| Jan | The Neat Line: Scribbling Through Mother Goose by Pamela Duncan Edwards |
| Jan | My wobbly tooth must not ever never fall out E CHIld |
| Feb | Angelina Ballerina by Katharine Holabird |
| Feb | Martha doesn't say sorry! by Samantha Berger |
| Feb | The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney |
| Feb | Are you my mother? E EAStman |
| Feb | Mae Jemison Space Pioneer B Jemison; read some parts; she is mentioned in their curriculum |
| Feb | Mama, do you love me? E JOOse |
| Feb | Nobody Notices Minerva E KIRwan, connects with Nobody Here but me; both characters feel ignored by their families and get into mischief |
| Feb | Nobody Here But Me by Judith Viorst and Nobody Notices Minerva by Wednesday Kirwan |
| Feb | What Pet to Get by Emma Dodd |
| Feb | Papa, do you love me? E JOOse P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Feb | The Napping House by Audrey Wood |
| Feb | Little by Little by Amber Stewart & Layn Marlow |
| Feb | Not So Tall for Six by Dianna Hutts Aston |
| Feb | Stuart Murphy level one books |
| Feb | Goldilocks and the Three Bears by 398.2 BREtt |
| Feb | Three silly billies E PALatini / PS* |
| Feb | First Snow E MCCully/ P.S. Jan. 2005 I.D. something you were afraid todo, but tried anyway because of the support of family or friends |
| Feb | The Big Snow E HADer |
| Feb | Patchwork Island E 811 KUSkin |
| Feb | The Island of the Skog E KELlogg |
| Feb | The Secret E GEOrge/ PS* Valentine theme |
| Feb | Art E MCDonnell |
| Mar | Write favorite book titles on a flower shape to decorate for spring |
| Mar | Tooth on the Loose E ELYa; Spanish words in rhyming text |
| Mar | Eleven Cats in a Bag by Noboru Baba |
| Mar | Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee |
| Mar | Yellow bird, black spider E ARCher |
| Mar | Horse E DOYle; seasons |
| Mar | The Three Little Rigs by David Gordon |
| Mar | Hansel and Diesel by David Gordon |
| Mar | The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Ken Geist |
| Mar | Fortunately by E CHArlip |
| Mar | The country bunny and the little gold shoes by E HEYward |
| Mar | Armadillo Rodeo E BREtt |
| Mar | The West Texas Chili Monster E COX |
| Mar | Harry the dirty dog E ZIOn |
| Mar | An Island Grows E SCHaefer |
| Mar | The Wind Blew by E HUTchins |
| Mar | The Windy Day E KARas |
| Mar | Wolf's Coming! by Joe Kulka |
| Mar | The Mystery E EATon; farm animals |
| Mar | Goldilocks returns E ERNst |
| Mar | The Gulps E GULps; fat family gets fit |
| Apr | Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace E WAL |
| Apr | I Love Our Earth E 525 MARtin (earth day) April 22nd |
| Apr | Grouchy Lady Bug E CARle |
| Apr | Oodles of animals E EHLert poems about animals; rhyming text |
| Apr | 10 Things I Can Do To Help My World 640 WALsh earth day |
| Apr | An interview with Harry the tarantula E TYSon |
| Apr | Sunflower House E BUNting |
| Apr | To Be like the sun E SWAnson growing sunflowers |
| Apr | Jack"s garden by E COLe |
| Apr | And the good brown earth by E HENderson |
| Apr | The Ugly Vegetables E LIN |
| Apr | The Lightning Bugs an Ike and Mem Story FIC Jennings |
| Apr | When the fireflies come E LONdon |
| Apr | The Runaway Bunny E BROwn felt board |
| Apr | Zoo"s who poems E 811 FLO/ P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Apr | Chameleon, Chameleon E COWley/ P.S. Apr. 2005 |
| Apr | Home for a Bunny E BROwn |
| Apr | Cat Jumped In by Tess Weaver |
| Apr | Twister E BEArd |
| Apr | Sky E DEWey |
| Apr | McDuff Goes to School E WELls |
| Apr | McDuff"s Wild Romp E WELls |
| Apr | Stuck in the Mud E CLArke rhyming story about farm animals and mud |
| May | The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle |
| May | Fabulous Fishes by Susan Stockdale rhyming book |
| May | Arabella Miller"s Tiny Caterpillar E JARrett, rhyming text, Life Cycle of Butterfly |
| May | Buster E FLEming |
| May | Buster Goes to Camp E FLEming; maps |
| May | Don"t worry bear E FOLey;simple & connects to Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| May | T-Rex and the Mother's Day Hug by Lois G. Grambling |
| May | Bark, Geroge E FIEffer |
| May | Pinkerton, Behave! By E KELlogg |
| May | The Day Leo Said I Hate You! E HARris; coping |
| May | So Happy E HENkes/P.S. List the things that make you happy, Text to self connection about what happens in your world when it rains. Apr. 2005 |
| May | The Old Woman and Her Pig E GALdone |
| May | Suddenly! E MCNaughton |
| May | Give the Dog a Bone E KELogg |
| May | Flip-Flops E COTe |
| May | Q is for Duck An Alphabet Guessing Game E 428.1 ELT/ Zoo story |
| May | McDuff Saves the Day E Wells |
| May | Fiesta Fiasco by Ann Whitford Paul |
| May | Bear"s New Friend E WILson summer story |
