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CSS ChoiceBooks 2nd Grade Visits

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2nd graders have to be challenged so anytime you can ask them questions during your reading or say I bet you can't guess this one you'll have them hooked.

17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore by Jenny Offill [this picture book takes a certain amount of visual fortitude to completely understand]
Dear Miss Perfect:A Beast's Guide to Proper Behavior by Sandra Dutton [A Miss Manners handles questions from the beastly set]
End, The by David LaRochelle
Flotsam by Davie Wiesner [wordless stories make for a powerful, interactive, reading]
Gardener, The by Sara Stewart [the epistolary form is a wonderful way to tell a story]
Gorilla by Anthony Browne [ask your children what they are feeling in the opening pages of this book and then take them on a journey where issues of loneliness and neglect are transformed]
Look Alikes by Joan Steiner [divide the children into groups and have them identify as many common objects as they can on a single page-great fun--you can turn it into a writing exercise too]
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Old Penn Station by William Low
Psst! by Adam Rex
Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver [his works only if they have learned their punctuation]
Read a chapter from a Junie B. Jones book by Barbara Park a few pages of Gooney Bird Green by Lois Lowry
Red Book, The by Barbara Lehman
Stella Louella's Runaway Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst [I use different voices for each of the characters. Before starting the book, I ask the kids to listen carefully to the clues to the name of the lost book. After the book is read, I can talk about care of books or go on to talk about other fairy tales.]
The Aliens are Coming: the true account of the 1938 War of the Worlds by Meghan McCarthey
Unexpectedly Bad Hair Day of Barcelona Smith, The by Keith Graves [a human version of Scaredy Squirrel]
Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
Where Does Pepper Come From? by Brigitte Raab [a nonfiction book that tests the reader's knowledge of the natural world]
WOW America! [great to test their knowledge of American geography]