Letter t books preschool

Books to read

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One Tiny Turtle, by Nicola Davies

This is a nonfiction book about the life of the loggerhead sea turtle.  The text of the story is so beautifully written that it feels like poetry.  “Far, far out to sea, land is only a memory, and empty sky touches the water.”  When my Five read this to herself, she didn’t like it, but she changed her mind after I read it to her.  The book is so interesting and beautiful to look at that we had lots to talk about.  Highly recommended!

Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, by Richard Scarry

How can you go wrong with a giant-sized book of Richard Scarry-style transportation?  If you’ve never heard of Richard Scarry, then perhaps you are of a younger generation.  These were very popular books when I was a kid and for a number of years before that. (I’m in my mid-30’s, if you must know.)  These books are excellent for kids to look at on their own because they are overflowing with interesting pictures.  They’re also great vocabulary builders because the pictures are all labeled.  You might not read this book from beginning to end, but you will love to find something new every time you pick it up.  Our library’s copy is quite worn out; this might be a good purchase for my son’s third birthday.

The Tub People, by Pam Conrad

The Tub People line up at the edge of the tub — always in the same order: the father, the mother, the grandmother, the doctor, the policeman, the child, and the dog.   They  love to play sea captain and have water races– until the horrible day when the Tub Child disappears down the tub drain.    This is one of my favorite picture books of all time — so I won’t share the ending in hopes that you read it for yourself!   Did I make you feel like you were watching Reading Rainbow? (Whoops – I’m dating myself again. )

Duck in the Truck, by Jez Alborough

I’ve highlighted this book before (see Rhyming Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers).  It’s still a favorite of my Two, and he is deeply disappointed when it must be returned to the library.   This is a fun rhyming book about a duck whose truck is stuck in the muck… and the animals who help him get out.

From Tomato to Ketchup, by Roberta Basel

We love “how things are made” books.  My kids are still quoting from this book. “Did you know that some people put ketchup on eggs and spaghetti?” or  “You have to take the air out of ketchup when you make it.”  I like the simple explanations and big photographs.

Big Truck and Little Truck, by Jan Carr

This is not my personal favorite because I like my books about trucks to be short.  But my Two (almost three) loves this book.  And it is certainly well-written with endearing illustrations.  Big Truck and Little Truck both work on Farley’s Farm.  Little Truck is used to Big Truck’s guidance and instruction — so when Big Truck’s engine won’t start and he leaves for the shop, Little Truck has to manage by himself.  It’s a sweet story about learning to be independent.

Trashy Town, by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha

This is a big favorite at our house.  Mr. Gilly drives around Trashy Town collecting garbage.  After each pick-up we read, “Dump it in, smash it down, drive around the trashy town!”  The simple illustrations, predictable text, and of course the subject (trash!) will likely make this a winner at your house, too.

Freight Train, by Donald Crews

Here’s a picture book classic in which vibrantly colored train cars move through a tunnel, by cities, across trestles, and right off the page. This is a great book for teaching about colors and movement.

The Tiger Who Came to Tea, by Judith Kerr

When I can, I like to include at least one older book in my Letter of the Week book lists.   This one (published in 1968) is a silly story about a little girl and her mother who are sitting down for tea, when a tiger comes to the door.   Sophie’s mother welcomes the polite tiger, who eats and drinks everything in the house!   In the end, they go out for dinner — and stock up on Tiger Food should the tiger ever pay them another visit.  A bonus about reading older stories is there’s so much opportunity for learning — in this book, what’s a milkman?  Why does a boy deliver groceries on a bicycle?

I’m Fast! by Kate & Jim McMullan

Here’s an entertaining read about a train and a car racing to Chicago.  This is one of several books by the McMullan author/illustrator team.  All my big kids (including my five-year-old daughter) love this story — with the train sound effects, funny text (My Two likes to quote the line “Cows? You gotta moooooove it! Thanks, ladies!”), and staccato rhythm, it’s a hit for kids who love trains and even those who don’t.

It’s a Tiger!  by David LaRochelle

Here’s a newer book which is destined to become a read-aloud favorite.  The main character runs into (and away from) a tiger throughout the story as the tiger shows up in the silliest of places.  Kids will enjoy the chance to yell “A TIGER!  RUN!” throughout this lively story.

I’m a Little Teapot, by Iza Trapani

At hour house, we’re big suckers for any book that takes one of our favorite rhymes and adds verses.  The teapot shares its dreams with us by reciting adventures of all kinds– fighting a bull in Mexico, meeting an alien in space, singing in an opera, going on a fox hunt… okay, so it’s a bit of a stretch. But we love to sing it! 

Little Blue Truck, by Alice Schertle

This is a sweet rhyming book about a friendly blue truck who is loved by all the animals.  When the proud, important dump truck finds himself stuck in the mud, he learns the importance of humility and friendship.

The Truck Book, by Harry McNaught

This book has excellent pictures to teach your little truck-lover the names of all different trucks and what they do.  I would recommend this for kids who can listen to longer books, but even your younger child might enjoy all the pictures.  My Four loved the pictures of the 1935 Wienermobile and milk-bottle shaped Milk Truck.  We were excited to find both of them on the Internet. (Here’s one and here’s the other if you want to take a peek!)

Tap Tap Bang Bang, by Emma Garcia

Here’s a fun book about tools just right for young listeners.  The pictures are simple, fun sound effects abound, and it’s a big vocabulary builder with the names of all the tools.  What’s not to like?

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Read Aloud Books for the Letter T

If you’re working on the letter T, listed here are some of our favorite books for the letter T. And if you’re looking for some FREE printables for the letter T, we have a couple you can choose from below:

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Books for the Letter T

The books featured in this list include these letter T words: toolbox, trashy (tr blend), town, ten, tiny, toes, turtle, truck (tr blend), teapot, turnip, and tooth.

The Toolbox by Anne & Harlow Rockwell is an adorable book about tools. The text and pictures are simple, yet there is some great vocabulary in there. The authors do not just stick to the standard hammer and saw. You’ll find a plane as well as a wrench and pliers. I love how the last picture shows the father’s word work from using all these tools.

Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman is such a CUTE and fun sing-songy book about a trash man named Mr. Gilly. He drives all over town collecting trash. At each stop, kids can recite this refrain {which is fun to kind of sing together}, “Dump it in, smash it down, drive around the Trashy Town!” My kids have ALL loved this book.

Ten Tiny Toes by Caroline Jayne Church is a cute book that toddlers and younger preschoolers will enjoy about their body. We have several books either by Caroline Jayne Church or that have been illustrated by her and they have all been winners with my kids. Note that this book may been too “baby-ish” for older preschoolers.

Whenever I can, I like to include books that feature math skills, too. Turtle Splash! by Catherine Falwell is an adorable countdown rhyming book at the pond. Kids will also enjoy finding the hidden animals in the pictures.

Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle is another cute rhyming book about a little blue truck who easily carries all his farm friends. That is, until he gets stuck in the muck. But Little Blue Truck has all his farm friends to give him a push. Great to use with a farm theme and also good for reinforcing animal sounds.

I’m a Little Teapot by Iza Trapani is one of those books that you can SING! It has the original song, but then many more verses as the teapot uses his imagination to travel the world and see different things. My daughters both like this book, but I’ll be honest and say that many times, I’d like to skip just a few of the verses. 😉

The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy is a Russian folktale that has encourages working together. The story goes that an old man and old woman plant seeds in their garden. The turnip seed they plant grows to be gigantic and when it’s harvest time, the old man is unable to pull it up. We have read SEVERAL versions of this tale and almost each one, including The Gigantic Turnip, has a cute refrain that kids will enjoy reciting with you.

As you could probably guess, The Tooth Book by Dr. Seuss is a rhyming book that’s mostly silly, although there are some facts about teeth included. Kids get to see animals that do and don’t have teeth as well as see things that you should not do with your teeth (although I don’t like that “dumb” is used twice in the book.) You can also expect silly rhymes like Sneeth and Jimbo Jones, but there aren’t too many in this book.

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"ROLE OF THE BOOK IN THE LIFE OF A PRESCHOOL CHILD"

Prepared by: Tropnikova Olga Gennadievna

Preschool childhood as a period in human life plays an important role in shaping what not only each individual person, but also all of humanity, the world as a whole will become. The educational, ideological, moral, and cultural priorities laid down in preschool childhood determine the life path of generations and influence the development and state of the entire civilization.

It is necessary to pay as much attention as possible to the formation of the child's inner world. Invaluable help in this is provided by communication with the book. Through reading fiction, the child learns the past, present and future of the world, learns to analyze, moral and cultural values ​​are laid in it.

Modern children spend more and more time playing computer games and watching TV. Sociological studies in our country and abroad have revealed negative trends: there is a markedly reduced interest in reading among younger preschoolers and adolescents; the share of reading in the structure of children's free time has been drastically reduced.

Today, the urgency of solving this problem is obvious. In order to educate a reader in a child, an adult must himself show interest in a book, understand its role in a person’s life, know books recommended for preschool children, be able to talk interestingly with kids and help in analyzing the work.

One of the priority problems of our society is introducing children to reading. Unfortunately, in our age of informatization, the attitude of children to the book has changed, interest in reading has begun to decline. According to numerous studies, already at preschool age, children prefer watching TV and video products and playing computer games to books. As a result, schoolchildren do not like, do not want to read.

Without reading, a person does not develop, does not improve his intellect, memory, attention, imagination, does not assimilate and does not use the experience of his predecessors, does not learn to think, analyze, compare, draw conclusions. The book, on the contrary, makes it possible to conjecture, "to fantasize." It teaches to reflect on new information, develops creativity, creative abilities, the ability to think independently.

Fiction is a powerful, effective means of mental, moral and aesthetic education of children, it has a huge impact on the development and enrichment of children's speech. In poetic images, fiction opens and explains to the child the life of society and nature, the world of human feelings and relationships. It makes emotions more intense, nurtures the imagination and gives the preschooler excellent examples of the Russian literary language.

The ability to correctly perceive a literary work, to recognize, along with the content, the elements of artistic expression does not come to the child by itself: it must be developed and educated from an early age. In this regard, it is very important to form in children the ability to actively listen to the work, to listen to artistic speech. Thanks to these skills, the child will form his own bright, imaginative, colorful, grammatically correct speech.

It is very important to cultivate love and interest in the book in time. S.Ya.Marshak considered the main task of adults - to discover in the child the "talent of the reader." Who introduces the child to the world of the book? This is done by parents and employees of preschool institutions. The library and the school are not the first, but the next stage in the formation of the reader. Based on this, the most knowledgeable person in matters of children's literature and reading should be a preschool teacher. He not only embodies the task of introducing children to the book, generating in them an interest in the process of reading and a deep understanding of the content of the work, but also acts as a consultant on family reading, a propagandist of books and book knowledge, a sociologist who quickly and accurately responds to changes in children's attitudes towards book and the process of reading, a psychologist who observes the perception and impact of a literary text on children.

Preschool children are listeners, not readers, a work of art is conveyed to them by a teacher, so their possession of expressive reading skills is of particular importance. The teacher is faced with an important task - each work must be conveyed to children as a work of art, to reveal its intention, to infect the listener with an emotional attitude to what is read: feelings, actions, lyrical experiences of the characters.

Thus, it is important to recognize the process of reading as determining in the education and development, worldview and moral development of a person, a child.

Memo for parents:

YES:

Read to your children as often as possible (a bedtime story or a story in the evening).

Read with your child for 10 minutes every day

Let your child choose books to read.

Read for yourself, setting an example for your child.

Encourage his desire to hold, look through, play with the book.

Make sure your child has a lot of colorful books at home.

Take your child to the bookstore or library regularly.

Give your child books.

Encourage your child to read to other family members, friends, acquaintances.

Make reading an enjoyable pastime.

Always praise your child when he/she is reading.

NO:

Do not force people to read.

Do not choose books for your child until he asks you to.

Don't force people to read too difficult books.

Do not compete with TV in choosing the time to read.

Do not criticize the child if he tries to read. Encourage, support, and improvement will come faster.

Don't stop reading aloud to children as soon as they can read for themselves.

Never talk your child out of reading - reading something is better than nothing.

Memo for parents

"FAMILY AND BOOK"

The family forms the basis of a person's worldview, his way of life and value orientations.

The family is a special social institution that introduces the child to the world of culture, including the reader's. The first meeting of a person with a book takes place in the family.

Family reading initially introduces a child to the world of book culture, is the most ancient, proven way of educating a person, including as a reader, who begins to form long before he learns the alphabet.

Family reading prepares a person for a relationship with a book, awakens and deepens attention, creates a need for reading. The lack of need for reading in adults is a consequence of its unformedness from early childhood.

Family reading contributes to the early and correct acquisition of native speech. The types and methods of human learning are largely determined by the environment, depend on communication and its main means - the degree of mastery of speech.

Regular reading aloud from early childhood introduces the child to the process of reading and contributes to the mastery of independent reading, determines the quality and preferences of future readers.
Family reading forms emotional and aesthetic acceptance of the book. Listening, a person experiences a strong influence of the sounding word, which allows you to convey triumph, joy, sadness, sadness, a joke, a mockery.
Family reading develops abilities that are the basis for the perception of artistic images. Such perception is impossible without imagination, visual representations,
the ability to experience the joys and sorrows of the heroes of works of art.
Reading aloud is important not only for toddlers, but also for older children and the elderly. In the process of family reading, children learn to listen carefully, assimilate and retell what they read, and older people feel less loneliness and in a natural form, without moralizing and notations, I pass on my life experience to the younger ones. In addition, adults have the opportunity to observe the spiritual development of the child and manage it.
Family reading is an effective way of socializing the younger generation. Such communication creates the ground for an exchange of opinions, it is also necessary for adults, who, thanks to communication with children, are enriched emotionally.
Family reading can serve to prevent aging, since, according to some experts, aging is the result of life without a book, without reading, which stimulates active mental activity.
Do you want your child to read?

Consider this good advice and your wishes will come true.

Instill in your children an interest in reading from an early age.
When buying books, choose bright in design and interesting in content. Buy, if possible, books by authors your child loves, arrange a personal library for your son or daughter.
Read systematically for yourself - this forms the child's habit of always seeing a book in the house.
Discuss the book you read with your family, even if you didn't like the book. It promotes the development of your speech and that of your child.
Recommend a book from your childhood to your child, share your childhood impressions of reading this or that book, compare yours and his impressions.
Reading aloud helps to expand children's vocabulary, as well as develop their ability to listen and pay attention. Reading aloud brings parents and children closer together.
Inculcate the skills of cultural and careful handling of the book.
Reading together is the easiest way to develop reading skills in children. Looking at, discussing, and reading books is one of the most important ways in which parents can instill in their children an interest in reading.
Drawings based on favorite books are one of the ways for a child to express their impressions of the works.
Try to compose your own ending to the piece together with your child. The advantage of such stories is a deeper understanding of the book read.
Give your child good books with a dedicatory inscription, kind and warm wishes. Years later, this will become a kind and bright reminder of your home, its traditions, dear and close people.
How to organize home reading

“A book for children is really good food – tasty, nutritious, light, contributing to their spiritual growth”

K.I. Chukovsky

Prepare the child for a new book or talk about a fairy tale or story already read (coming back from kindergarten, doing household chores, etc.).

In the daily routine, it is necessary to allocate a certain time so that by this time the baby is tuned in to the perception of the book.

Reading should take place in a calm environment, when nothing distracts the child, and those around him treat his studies “respectfully”.

A 1.5 - 2 year old child can concentrate on a book for 1-2 minutes, older children are read no more than 15-20 minutes, because then their attention is scattered. It is about active communication with the book. Let the baby repeat the words after you, answer the questions, look at the illustrations.

Passively, the child can listen much longer (he then turns off, then listens again). Remember: a child cannot be a passive listener all the time, so while reading, you need to activate his attention.

Childish love for repeated readings should be remembered. Children crave them in order to experience joyful excitement again and with greater strength. Repeated readings train memory and develop speech.

The setting of the family reading ritual enhances perception (evening, darkened room, table lamp). Twilight sets in a fabulous, fantastic mood.

Family reading has truly unique properties that can create a warm family atmosphere and a successful environment for the development of a child's personality.

v If you can give your children that kind of attention, they know you love them.

v Reading to children makes them future readers.

v Children's books are so well written that they will be interesting even for adults.

v Illustrations in books enrich children and contribute to their creative development.

v Books will help your children learn to think and imagine.

v As long as children learn to read, they will think of you as a magician who creates magic from words.

v Reading aloud helps your child develop attention.

v You create amazing memories of wonderful family evenings and warm treatment of a child.

v Books can instill values ​​in children that they will carry throughout their lives.

v Sooner or later you will definitely be thanked for a smart and well-mannered child.

Advice for Parents on Developing Interest in Reading:

Instill in your child an interest in reading from an early age.
When buying books, choose bright in design and interesting in content.
Read to your child systematically. This will form the habit of daily communication with the book.
Discuss the read children's book among your family members.
Tell your child about the author of the book you read.
If you are reading a book to your child, try to stop reading at the most exciting episode.
Remembering with the child the content of the previously read, deliberately distort it to check how he remembered the text he read.
Recommend books from your childhood to your child, share your childhood impressions of reading this or that book, compare yours and his impressions.
Have discussions at home about the books you read.
Buy, if possible, books of authors your child likes, collect his personal library.
Cultivate respect for the book.
Give your child good books with a dedicatory inscription, kind and warm wishes. Years later, this will become a happy reminder of your home, its traditions, dear and close people.

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