First Grade Reading List    
Title Author Type/Genre  
       
What Makes Day and Night? Franklyn M Branley Everybody/Informational
Stone Soup Marcia Brown Folk Tale  
Crickwing Janell Cannon Everybody/Read Aloud
Some Smug Slug Pamela D. Edwards Alliteration  
Hattie and the Fox Mem Fox Everybody/Read Aloud
Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall Everybody/Read Aloud
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Kevin Henkes Everybody/Read Aloud
Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Everybody/Multicultural
One Fine Day Nonny Hogrogian Cumulative Folk Tale
Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Everybody/Informational
There's an Alligator Under my Bed Mercer Mayer Everybody/Read Aloud
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura J Numeroff Circle Story  
The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin ABC Book  
Chicken Soup with Rice Maurice Sendak Poetry  
This is the House That Jack Built Simms Tayback Pattern Book  
Mouse Paint Ellen Stohl Walsh Everybody/Read Aloud
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? Nancy White Rhyme  
How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? Jane Yolen Everybody/Read Aloud
       
Fairy Tales by any author      
Mother Goose Books      
       
Beginning Readers:      
Any Clifford title by Norman Bridwell      
Any Curious George title from H.A.Rey      
Any Frog and Toad title by Arnold Lobel      
Any Poppelton, Mr. Putter, or Henry and Mudge title by Cynthia Rylant