Lit for Littles


1st - 2nd grade

Lit for Littles (26/27)

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:

Classic Children’s Literature 

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

• The Apple Doll by Margery Williams

• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

• Bink & Gollie by Kate DiCamillo

• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

• Saint George and the Dragon illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges 

• Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise by Kate DiCamillo

• The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco

• Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson

• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

• Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

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Chapter Books

• The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends) by George Selden

• McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales

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Historical Fiction & Biographies

• The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

• The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving by Ann McGovern

• Night of the Ninjas, Magic Tree House #5 (“mixed-genre” of fantasy and historical fiction)

• Happy Birthday Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo

Poetry

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Dr. Seuss

• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

• Robert Frost: Poetry for Young People

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poetry for Young People

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

Tall Tales

• American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne

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