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This is Part TWO of our list of books about school -- all at the Kindergarten reading level.
This list has all the books that are at the 0.9 Reading Level. For the easier books please see this list.
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DAVID GOES TO SCHOOL
by David Shannon
4.15 avg rating — 14,880 ratings
David Shannon's popular boy is back. In this story his naughty activities include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!"
Word Count: 74
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading level: 0.9 / points: 0. 5
AR quiz: 36596
Lexile: BR
--sample pages available
Espanole!
DAVID VA AL COLEGIO
(David Goes To School)
BISCUIT GOES TO SCHOOL
(My First I Can Read)
(World of Biscuit Beginning Reader)
by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Pat Schories (Illustrations)
4.19 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
Biscuit Goes to School Book and CD
Word Count: 109
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 61032
Lexile: 100L
--sample pages available
GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL
by Lois Fortuna
This book follows a girl as she gets ready for school.
Word Count: 68
Page Count:24
Accelerated Reading level: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 180875
STRAIGHT TO THE POLE
by Kevin O'Malley
3.73 avg rating — 71 ratings
It's a cold adventure for a boy who struggles to get to the Pole.
.. the bus stop pole! After all his trouble he finds out school is closed.
Word Count: 100
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reading level: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 74623
Lexile: BR
--sample pages available
MOUSE LOVES SCHOOL
(Ready-to-Reads)
by Lauren Thompson
Buket Erdogan (Illustrator)
3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings
Mouse hides in a backpack and finds himself at school, where he discovers colors, letters, numbers, and friend! (This book is a little babyish)
Word Count: 133
Page Count:24
Accelerated Reader: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 144368
Lexile: AD210L
--sample pages available
TEACHERS
(Bullfrog Books)
by Cari Meister
We thought this one would be fun. The describes what teachers do at school and before and after.
Common Core Suggested
Word Count: 106
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reader: 0.
9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 161504
Lexile: 190L
WHO GOES TO SCHOOL?
by Margaret Hillert
Yes, I am reviewing. I am reviewing many, many Margaret Hillert primers. I love her primers. Her primers are fun to read. They tell good stories. They motivate young readers to continue reading.
In "Who Goes to School", Margaret Hillert has fun playing with the notion of 'going to school'. At the beginning of the book there is a picture of a classic schoolhouse and Margaret asks the child "Who goes to school?"
And it isn't who you think. For instead of children it's dogs, lions, cats, and elephants going to school. And what is REALLY delightful about this primer is that Margaret doesn't dumb-down the story. In stead she shows how the animals put their new knowledge to work. She shows one dog helping a police officer, for example. While another is a seeing eye dog.
THE TECHNICAL BITS:::
65 unique words; 298 words all together
The most challenging words is something.
hover here to see a complete list of vocabulary words
Word Count: 298
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 9397
Lexile: BR
SCHOOL BUSES
(My Community: Vehicles)
by Julie Murray
Many new students will be riding buses and this practice reader gives adults a chance to let little ones know what to expect. Also good for curious homeschooled children.
Word Count: 113
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reader: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 179510
Lexile: 40L
THE NEW KID
(Real Kids Readers, Level 1)
by Susan Hood
One thing I like about this series is that there are attractive, kid-friendly pictures of children. That said, Goodreaders don't seem to like it. 2.83 Stars from them.
The new kid, Sid, always acts up in class. If he's not taking Lee's pencil, he's spilling paint on Bess.
Why is he such a pest?
Word Count: 125
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 0.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 31865
Lexile: BR
--sample pages available
Updated JULY 2016
Ready, set, read: Nurturing kindergarten and pre-K independent readers
“Miss Nelson, Miss Nelson, I need a new book!” He’s five, beaming with pride, and nearly dancing out of his sneakers as he spies Miss Nelson in the hallway. He can’t wait to tell her he’s just scored 100 percent on his reading quiz and wants his next book. While not every five-year-old is ready for independent reading, over one third of kindergartners and a number of pre-K students at Wicklow Elementary School in Sanford, Florida, have the literacy skills to participate in an independent-reading program.
Janet Nelson, a paraprofessional at Wicklow Elementary, developed and manages the pre-K and kindergarten aspect of the program built on the Renaissance Accelerated Reader® application.
“Scholars in the program make measurable skill-level progress each trimester, with many of our kindergartners mastering first-grade reading standards throughout the school year,” Nelson says. “At the same time, they’re developing self-confidence, independence, and an enthusiasm for reading that’s contagious. Their absolute delight in doing well is the apex for me! I can’t begin to describe the happiness it gives me in my own work!”
“They’re developing self-confidence, independence, and an enthusiasm for reading that’s contagious. Their absolute delight in doing well is the apex for me! I can’t begin to describe the happiness it gives me in my own work!”
Janet Nelson
Paraprofessional – Wicklow Elementary School
The challenge: Tap into early enthusiasm for reading
Wicklow Elementary serves students in pre-K through grade 5 and is one of 15 Title I elementary schools in the Seminole County Public Schools district. “Students come into our school at widely varying developmental and skill levels, and many have limited opportunities to read books at home,” says Christy Bohnstadt, assistant principal at Wicklow.
“Three years ago, Miss Nelson approached us with this idea that she believed would help more of our students enter the first grade at or close to grade-level reading.”
Observing that several kindergartners in one of her instructional groups showed surprising levels of reading comprehension, Nelson saw untapped potential. “Wicklow Elementary has a history of success using Accelerated Reader in the higher grades, but we had never enrolled kindergartners. It only made sense to extend its use to younger scholars demonstrating the requisite levels of skills and interest.”
Administrative staff agreed to allocate 45 minutes of Nelson’s daily instructional schedule to the program, and pre-K and kindergarten teachers committed to helping identify participants. With the support of Katie Fuchs, Wicklow’s Accelerated Reader program manager, Nelson developed a detailed plan for a highly monitored program featuring personalized support, incentives/rewards, and regular parent communications.
Wicklow pre-K and kindergarten teachers recommend scholars to the Accelerated Reader program based on foundational-skills, data, and educators’ classroom observations. With enrollment, students work one-on-one with Nelson who collaborates with their teacher, starting them on their first books, teaches them how to log into the Accelerated Reader program to take reading-comprehension quizzes, and monitors their progress with continued support. An accuracy score earns both Accelerated Reader points and the opportunity to continue with the next book.
Nelson involves parents with a poem she authored to send home with pre-K and kindergarten scholars upon their enrollment in the program:
I focused on all my letter sounds and learning my sight words, too.
And now I am a Kindergarten AR (Accelerated Reader) Shining Star and proud to share with you!
I read a book several times, and pictures help me with the words.
The more I read, the more I learn—so this is what I’ve heard!
Reading is a journey and I know I will go far…I am proud to be a Kindergarten AR Shining Star!
Parents also receive student quiz results, as well as a reading-program summary included with each trimester report card.
Pictures worth thousands of words and immeasurable confidence
Nelson’s approach pairs nurturing with high expectations. “We impress upon our scholars to read each book three times, focusing on the details of the story. Then we orally review questions they’ll likely encounter on Accelerated Reader quizzes. Accuracy on quizzes confirms comprehension, so we make a very big deal out of their first 100 percent score, marking the event with lots of praise and shared excitement.”
But Nelson says it’s the Shining Stars photo gallery that generates the most excitement. Holding an “I am a Kindergarten AR Shining Scholar” placard, each scholar poses for a picture that’s displayed in the kindergarten hallway.
Beyond bestowing heady fame upon five-year-olds, the recognition helps build self-esteem and confidence in reading potential.
Fuchs also helps highlight student achievements, organizing events and activities around Accelerated Reader objectives. “Scholars read independently and at their own pace, but we do set goals with rewards—including Accelerated Reader Club T-shirts—to mark individual accomplishments. School-wide celebrations and award celebrations at the end of each trimester help showcase successes and spread the excitement for reading to other students.”
One year’s growth in one year’s time
Seminole County Public Schools is the twelfth-largest district in Florida. Many of the district’s elementary schools, including the majority of Title I elementary schools, utilize Renaissance Accelerated Reader and the Renaissance Star Reading® assessment programs. “The Accelerated Reader program helps our educators more precisely monitor and manage what students are reading,” says Fuchs.
“The quizzes align closely with our Florida Department of Education learning standards, and we take full advantage of the wide variety of reports available in the program to help teachers quickly identify students who may need additional reading practice, keep parents up to date, and show students their progress in achieving individual reading goals.”
“We take full advantage of the wide variety of reports available in the program to help teachers quickly identify students who may need additional reading practice, keep parents up to date, and show students their progress in achieving individual reading goals.”
Katie Fuchs
Accelerated Reader Program Manager – Wicklow Elementary School
Bohnstadt says that Renaissance applications help Wicklow Elementary teachers meet the district-wide objective of ensuring each student achieves one year’s growth in one year’s time. She notes the particularly strong results with the extension of the Accelerated Reader program to early scholars.
“Miss Nelson very effectively uses Accelerated Reader to engage pre-K and kindergarten scholars in the reading process, helping them develop reading independence and giving them a foundation that’s essential to success in school and in life. They’re excited to learn, and that interest carries over into other subjects and classes.”
Paid in love
“Pre-K and kindergarten scholars do remarkably well in the program,” concludes Nelson. “In fact, their accuracy rates on Accelerated Reader quizzes are the highest of all of our grade levels. They’re already applying word analysis skills, decoding words, practicing story retelling, recognizing text features and standards of English grammar usage, and distinguishing between information delivered via text versus in illustrations—all first-grade standards.”
“They’re already applying word analysis skills, decoding words, practicing story retelling, recognizing text features and standards of English grammar usage, and distinguishing between information delivered via text versus in illustrations—all first-grade standards.
”Janet Nelson
Paraprofessional – Wicklow Elementary School
“What’s harder to quantify is the sheer joy they experience in learning to read. It’s a tremendous thing to witness. I see it when they score 100 percent on a quiz and enthusiastically tell me in the hallway, eager for their next book. Most days I feel like I get paid extra in love.”
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7 books about kindergarten: for children and even for parents
Will you take your child to kindergarten for the first time? There is still more than a month until September - a lot of time to prepare (for both him and you). And these books will help - understandable, funny and extremely useful.
"Little Theo Goes to Kindergarten" by Suzanne Gölich
A cute picture book that will do a great job preparing your child for the first trip to kindergarten. Koala Theo also goes there for the first time and is very worried, so much so that even his favorite teddy bear gets sick - but everything will be fine.
And funny stories from the life of kindergarteners will inspire anyone to quickly go in search of new friends.
“No way!”, Beatrice Alemagna
The bat Pascalina doesn’t want to go to kindergarten for anything – and she tells everyone so. And it turns out that this one has her "no way!" magical effect: parents get smaller and smaller and... go to the garden with their naughty daughter. What will come of this? It's better for you to find out for yourself. But there is a small spoiler: by the end of the first day, Pascalina will realize that without parents, kindergarten would be much more interesting.
How Papa Became Little, Lars Mäle
Similar plot: Tina has to go to kindergarten with her dad, and not with an adult and serious, but with a small and mischievous one. That's more entertainment! Well, what to do: dad thought so, the wish came true, and Tina has to put up with it. An instructive story for children and parents - situations familiar to everyone, but not through the eyes of an adult, but through the eyes of a child.
Believe me, you will have something to discuss with the future kindergartener.
Kindergarten on Wheels. Middle group, Zulya Stadnik
The second book in the Kindergarten on Wheels series. Actually, the author wrote stories for her daughter Solka - she has already grown up, but she asks for continuation. The excavator Klusha and the engine Shpunchik have grown up and now go to the middle group. They still listen to instructive tales read to them by the strict but caring nanny Kerosin Benzinovich, draw fruits, play a lot and, of course, cannot resist pranks. Not exactly an instruction for survival in kindergarten, but an introduction to the topic - for sure.
“The Kindergarten of My Dreams”,
Kseniya Valakhanovych
A collection of poems by the famous children's poetess Kseniya Valakhanovych, dedicated to kindergarten everyday life. The recipe for poems is simple: funny stories from the lives of kids, a play on words, a good portion of humor, mastery of form and, of course, love for children in every line.
“Anna will go to kindergarten tomorrow”, Maya Bessonova
Anya goes to kindergarten and learns to live by new rules, make friends, be independent and… do without her parents. The book was written by a mother of many children and an experienced teacher Maya Bessonova, and, in fact, this is a guide to adapting to kindergarten, not only in the form of instructive advice, but in the form of touching children's stories about the first days in the garden. We read and prepare together for the first, most difficult week.
"Lazy Mom's Babies in Kindergarten", Anna Bykova
As Anna says, she wrote this book because she, at one time, really lacked such literature. How is the adaptation of the child in kindergarten? Why is he crying? What can you do to stop crying? How to relieve your anxiety and how does it affect the condition of the child? Answers to all these questions — and a million more like them — under one cover.
Children's Book Festival at the Gogol House
The New Wing of the Gogol House and the Jewish Book House with the support of the Joint Charitable Foundation invite you May 29, at the Festival of Children's Books in the courtyard of the Gogol House on Nikitsky Boulevard, 7–7a.
In a cozy park on Nikitsky Boulevard 15 best children's publishing houses will present their books to young readers. The festival program includes creative workshops for children, a costumed tour of the N.V. Gogol Museum, balloons, soap bubbles and the Co-Author coloring exhibition in the New Wing of the Gogol House. The Pajama Library program and its best teachers will conduct exciting classes for festival guests. Style of Life Academy will hold a charity event "Kind Library" to collect books for orphanages. Specially for the festival, "KOM Clay Workshop" will arrange a family lesson in clay modeling! And at our festival, you can learn how to bind books, take part in a literary quiz, draw and play in the fresh air and much, much more.
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"Gogol's House" and "New Wing"
A costume tour for children over 8 years old through the main exposition of the "Gogol's House" memorial museum.
"Coauthor" coloring exhibition in the "New Wing" - an exhibition where you can color (right on the walls) the works of 60 contemporary artists.
(3+)
Jewish Cultural Center on Nikitskaya Ralph Goldman, Tapuz Kindergarten
Lesson-travel on an airplane carpet with Ole Lukoye. An artistic reading of the Jewish parable "The Fox and the Leviathan" and the fairy tale of Isaac Kipnis "The Bunny - Grass Eater and His Family". The role of Ole Lukoye is played by Natalya Vinogradskaya, a teacher of literature at the Tapuz DC. (5-12 years old)
"Pajama Library"
Lesson with Svetlana Prudovskaya "Phoenician writing, Glagolitic, Cyrillic ... and a book with a secret" . Participants will learn how the Phoenician alphabet helped the creators of the Russian alphabet; read the cipher text and make a book with hidden pages. (10-12 years old)
Master class of the artist Andrey Borovsky "Denim sails of Columbus" . Do you know what the name "denim" means for denim? What country did the indigo dye come from? Who invented jeans and what is the fifth pocket for? And how did it happen that Columbus sailed to America on denim sails? (6–8+)
“Transformations.
To be different, while remaining yourself "with Irina Dvoretskaya . Fantasies about magical transformations and how wonderful it is to become someone else at least for a day. How to make everyone happy and why are there those on earth who never smile? Funny conversations and drawings about happiness and imagination. (3-5 years)
KOM Clay Workshop
Clay Play for children aged 3 to 7 with their parents.
Bookbinding with Stepan Chizhov
Bookbinding workshop for children aged 7-12 with parents.
GLM Studio "Weekend Tale" in the State Literary Museum and Charitable Foundation "House of the Jewish Book"
Traveling exhibition-game based on the poems of Ovsey Driz "The Helom Wise Men".
Charity event "Kind Library" from Style of Life Academy
At the festival you can find a box for book donations in favor of orphanages in Russia. We invite everyone to remember which book was the most significant for him at one time and give it to a child living in an orphanage.
The age of the children to whom the books will be given is from 5 to 18 years.
Program from publishing houses
Lesson of drawing fabulous animals using cardboard templates from the Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house. (5+)
Master class "Family space travel" from the publishing house "Nastya and Nikita". A brief history of the conquest of space by man, the construction of a model of the solar system. (6+)
Master class on Anu Shtoner's books about Charlotte the Sheep from the CompassGuide publishing house. Participants will make Charlotte the Sheep out of paper and cotton and listen to stories about her fun adventures. (5+)
Literary quiz with prizes for children 8-12 years old from the Jewish Book House.
Lesson for the little ones based on the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" from the Pink Giraffe publishing house. Children will read, count, learn the names of fruits and days of the week, draw and carve a big caterpillar, and then drive it around the festival.
(2+)
Melik-Pashayev publishing house will present a series of books about Kvaka the frog. Reading a book, getting to know Kwak, each participant will be able to make a small jumping frog out of paper. (5+)
Mono-performance and quiz from the publishing house "Art-Volkhonka" based on the book by Nastya Kovalenkova "Drop". (5+)
Master class "Tasty history" based on the book of the same name from the publishing house "Walk into History". At the master class, children will turn into real tasters: they will learn how vanilla and cinnamon smell, why black pepper was needed, and try the “ideal fruit” according to the inhabitants of Central America. (6+)
The Clever publishing house will tell everyone about the origins of oriental ornaments, the features of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles, and the secrets of ancient masters. (6-14 years old)
Interactive readings based on the collection of poems by the poet Alexander Konyashov "We will draw a house" from the publishing house "August".
