Great Read Alouds for K-2nd Grade {+ Printable!}
I LOVE reading aloud to my kids. And they love it, too! According to Jim Trelease, author of Read-Aloud Handbook, reading aloud is not only fun, it gives your child a huge advantage when it comes to learning. Children who start school with a larger vocabulary tend to do better than the child with a low vocabulary. And how do children learn and expand their vocabulary? By hearing words used at home! Often, our conversation speech is “verbal shorthand,” whereas books offer complete sentences and more complex language. Trelease points out that:
Reading aloud also increases a child’s attention span. Finally, reading aloud to your child is a commercial for reading. When you read aloud, you’re whetting a child’s appetite for reading . . . .A child who has been read to will want to learn to read herself. She will want to do what she sees her parents doing. But if a child never sees anyone pick up a book, she isn’t going to have that desire.
Learn more about the benefits of reading to your kids here.
With that in mind, I started compiling a list of my favorite books to read to my children and my Facebook followers to share their go-to reads. Here’s my list of great read alouds for K-2nd grade:
Happy Hollisters by Jerry West
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
Five Little Peppers by Margaret Sidney
Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
That’s Nat! by Dandi Daley Mackall and Lys Blakeslee
Meghan Rose by Lori Z. Scott
Adventures of Lily Lapp by Mary Ann Kinsigner and Suzanne Woods Fisher
Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor
Superstition Mountain Mysteries by Elise Broach
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Grandma’s Attic by Arleta Richardson
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish and Lynne Avril
Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
We Are In a Book by Mo Williems
Just in Case You Ever Wonder by Max Lucado
The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt and Tim Jonke
Imagination Station by Paul McCusker and Marianne Hering
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Download the Great Read Alouds Checklist for more great books and to keep track of what you’ve read and what you should check out!
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