The Learning Experience’s Summer Reading Guide
The TLE Team
During the summer months, parents often find themselves looking for new and creative ways to entertain their children, often without much luck. In these moments of frustration, it’s easy to forget you can easily have access to entire worlds full of new and exciting adventures right at your fingertips: all you need to do is open the pages of a new book. Take a look at our summer reading guide.
Reading to your child during the summer offers so much more than just a way to keep them entertained while spending quality time together. It also helps expand their imaginations, teaches new lessons, and helps them prepare for future scholastic achievement. According to the National Commission on Reading, the single most important factor influencing a child’s early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home. For school-aged children, reading during these months is essential to keep their learning skills from slipping down the summer slide.
To get you prepared for a summer’s worth of reading, our Curriculum Department has put together a list of age-appropriate books for children ranging in age from infants to second graders. Before diving into the list, here are a few tips on how to enhance your child’s reading experience:
1. Use a calendar to keep track of how many books they’ve read during the summer
2. Celebrate each time you and your child read a new book with little awards or rewards
3. Promote interaction by asking questions beyond the story topic
4. Act out the adventures from the books you’re reading: pretend you are going to the moon and back, taking a train through the mountains, or even riding in a boat down a river.
5. Create your own props to help act out a story
6. Empower your child by allowing him or her to pick while book they’d like to read next
The Learning Experience’s Summer Reading List
Birth – 12 Months Summer Reading Guide
Eric Carle Board Book Set
Twinkle, Twinkle: An Animal Lover’s Mother Goose by Bobbi Fabian
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Global Babies from Global Fund for Childres
Families by Rena D. Grossman
On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tilman
Black on White Board Books and White on Black Board Books
Books with Textures
12 Months – 24 Months Summer Reading Guide
I Spy Little Books by Jean Marzollo
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Little Blue Truck by Alice Shertle
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way by Alice Shertle
The Feelings Book by Todd Parr
Llama Llama Red Pajamas by Anna Dewdney
The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
Simple Board books with colors, numbers, and shapes
Two-Year-Olds Summer Reading Guide
Down by the Barn by Will Hillenbrand
You Are (Not) Small by Anna Kang
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
My Truck is Stuck! by Kevin Lewis
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
Pete the Cat Series by Eric Litwin
The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
Three-Year-Olds Summer Reading Guide
Gilbert Goldfish Wants a Pet by Kelly DiPucchio
I’m My Own Dog by David Ezra Stein
Olivia by Ian Falconer
Go, Dog. Go! By P.D. Eastman
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Work an Occupational ABC by Kellen Hatanaka
Pigeon Series of Books by Mo Willems
Four-Year-Olds Summer Reading Guide
Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
Elmer’s Special Day by David McKee
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywait
On Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree by Daniel Bernstrom
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
What Pet Should I Get? By Dr. Seuss
Olivia Series by Ian Falconer
A Piglet Named Mercy by Kate DiCamillo
Five-Year-Olds Summer Reading Guide
The Book with No Pictures by B. J. Novak
Froodle by Antoinette Portis
My First Little House Series by Laura Ingles Wilder and Renee Graef
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson and Tara Calahan King
The Henry Series by D. B. Johnson
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
Because by Mo Williams
Bee-bim-Bop! By Linda Sue Park
Mary Wrightly, So Politely by Shirin Yim Rogers
The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
First Graders Summer Reading Guide
BOB Books by Bobby Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen
Junie B. Jones Series by Barbara Park
The Diary of Series by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss
The Lost Lake by Allen Say
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Memoirs of a Hamster by Devin Scillian
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Nothing Rhymes with Orange by Adam Rex
Second Graders Summer Reading Guide
Judy Moody Series by Megan McDonald and Peter H. Reynolds
Picture Day Perfection by Deborah Diesen
The Legend of Diamond Lil; The Trouble with Chickens; and
The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure by Doreen Cronin
Madeline Series by Ludwig Bemelmans
Boom! Bellow! Bleat! Animal Poems for Two or More Voices by Georgia Heard
Good Dog, McTavish by Beg Rosoff
Power Up by Seth Fishman
Jasper & Ollie by Alex Willan
The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman
Have fun on your summer reading adventures!
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