Lit for Littles
1st - 2nd grade

Students will average reading one book per week and complete simple homework assignments. The work load is entirely flexible, based on each student’s ability, and the teacher will work closely with parents to provide a personalized program that is challenging, but never overwhelming.

Some of the books and activities we will enjoy together are:

C​lassic Children’s Literature:

• Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak

• Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson

• The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson (Author), Jonathan Bean (Illustrator)

• How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

• How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara

• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

• Sharing the Bread: An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow

• Brave Irene by William Steig

• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

• A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno

• Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha

• Snow Walker by Charles M. Wetterer, Margaret K. Wetterer

• The Rag Coat by Lauren A. Mills

• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

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Poetry:

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• A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Lewis Stevenson

• Robert Frost: Poetry for Young People

• Now We Are Six by AA Milne

• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poetry for Young People

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Non-Fiction/Historical:

• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Oge Mora, Rita Lorraine Hubbard

• My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by AG Ford, Martin Luther King III

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Read-Aloud Chapter Books:

• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett