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CSS ChoiceBooks Kindergarten Visits

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Reading aloud to a group of kindergarteners is often very different than one-on-one snuggling in a favorite chair and having no constraints on your reading time. These books have been used successfully in library and classroom settings.

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
Alligator Boy by Cynthia Rylant
Beegu by Alexis Deacon
Cowboy and Octopus by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Do Not Open This Book by Michaela Muntean
Dumb Bunnies, The by Sue Denim [great interactive opportunity to ask kids what is wrong with this picture?]
Gone Wild : An endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont
I Stink! by Kate McMullan
I'm Bad by Kate and Jim McMullan [a big bad trex--use the endpapers to make a dinosaur hat, make 2 copies and staple]--Thanks to Judy Freeman
I'm Not Cute by Jonathan Allen
I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems [thought this was strictly preschool, but Trixie's babbling always brings down the house]
Little Pea by Amy K. Rosenthal
Look Books by Tana Hoban [these books are always successful because the children have to guess what they are looking at before you turn the page]
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett [a little girl and her toy monkey are off to see a variety of animals. Based on their actions kids have to guess what the animals will be on the following page. Get them to imitate the animals' movements after you finish reading.]
My Buddy, Slug by Jarrett Krosoczka
No, David! by David Shannon
Not A Box by Antoinette Portis
Pigeon books by Mo Willems
Pirates Don't Change Diapers by Melinda Long
Poetry by Shel Siverstein, Jack Prelutsky--anything funny
Seals on the Bus, The by Lenny Hort
Tree Ring Circus by Adam Rex
Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino
Visitor for Bear, A by Kady MacDonald Denton [flannel board, puppet or just great read aloud--have them repeat "small, grey and bright-eyed of course"]
What do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak