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:

• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff

• The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack

• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

• Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola 

• Stone Soup by Marcia Brown

• Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats

• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams

• The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss (Dr. Seuss’ Birthday)

• Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

• Abraham Lincoln by Ingri Mortenson and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

• Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

• Harry The Dirty Dog by Gene Zion

• Boy by Phil Cummings

• The Aesop for Children with Pictures by Milo Winter

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Poetry:​

• 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 Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill

• One Smart Sheep by Elizabeth Stickney, Gary D. Schmidt

• Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

• Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat