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| Author: | Marjorie Flack |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 5 and under |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 5 and under |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1930 |
Doesn't rhyme so harder to memorize; funny; cool pictures; not cutesy; some pretty hard words keep it interesting | |
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Adventures of a young bear and his mom, who is always right.
Very beautiful illustrations in a very easy to read chapter book format.
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| Author: | Margaret Wise Brown |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Learning to read |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Learning to read |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1947 |
Cool pictures; not cutesy; some pretty hard words (night, air, house, everywhere for example) keep it interesting. | |
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| Author: | Joanna Cole |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Learning to read |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Learning to read |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1990 |
A wonderful anthology of easy-to-read but not flimsy stories. The story Boris Gets a Cold is a family favorite. | |
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One of the books we liked when learning to read (and, actually, we still like to read them, although now we like to read them very fast and, sometimes, backwards).
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A Fly Went By is in our list of books we liked when learning to read (and, actually, we still like to read them, although now we like to read them very fast and, sometimes, backwards):
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| Author: | Crockett Johnson |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 5 and under |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 5 and under |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1931 |
Doesn't rhyme so harder to memorize; funny; cool pictures; not cutesy; some pretty hard words keep it interesting | |
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| Author: | Dr. Seuss |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Learning to read |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Learning to read |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1960 |
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The stupendous thing about Green Eggs and Ham is that it is full of twisty sentences, each of which is slightly different, but each of which has many words similar to words in other sentences. So our daughter (thank goodness) could not memorize the whole book. And we tried to be finicky, very finicky, about her reading every single word and reading it correctly.
Another trick was to read Green Eggs and Ham backwards. Well, not invert every word. But start at the last page, read the whole page and then turn left toward the front cover rather than right toward the back cover. Messing with the logical progression does not interfere much with the meaning of the story, since it is doggerel. (And, actually, given how fussy an eater our daughter is, ending with refusal to try the proferred food is more appropriate for her than \”I will eat green eggs and ham…\”).
See also Learning to Read.
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| Author: | Maurice Sendak |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Learning to read |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Learning to read |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1962 |
very cool pictures; extremely non-cutesy | |
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| Author: | Margaret Wise Brown |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 5 and under |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 5 and under |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1949 |
Doesn't rhyme so harder to memorize; not cutesy; some pretty hard words in surprising configurations | |
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