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Grade Level Reading Lists
The Mitten (Brett)
The Doorbell Rang (Hutchins)
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (Numeroff)
The Napping House (Wood)
One Hungry Monster (O’Keefe)
Whistle for Willie (Keats)
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Aardema)
Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young (Prelutsky)
Tiny Seed (Carle)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Viorst)
A Flag For Our Country (Spencer)
2nd Grade Reading List Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles)
The Paper Bag Princess (Munsch)
Amelia Bedelia (Parish) Nate the Great (Sharmat)
Lon Po Po (Young) Lunch Line (Nagel) Max’s Money (Slater)
Arthur Meets the President (Brown)
Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body (Cole)
Wolves (Gibbons)
THIRD GRADE
Helen Keller (Graf)
Sarah Plain and Tall (MacLachian)
The Boxcar Children (First of Series) (Warner)
A Chair for My Mother (Williams)
Stellaluna (Cannon)
Knots on a Counting Rope (Martin)
Thunder Cake (Polacco)
How My Parents Learned to Eat (Friedman)
Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane (Cole)
Rain Forest (Taylor)
FOURTH GRADE
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater)
Cricket in Times Square (Seldon)
Bud Not Buddy (Curtis)
Bunnicula Strikes Again (Howe)
Harriett the Spy (Fitzhugh)
Matilda (Dahl)
Mississippi Bridge (Taylor)
Once on this Island (Whelan)
Shiloh (Naylor)
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing (Blume)
FIFTH GRADE
Be a Perfect Person in 3 Days (Manes)
Bloomability (Creech)
Brian's Return (Paulsen)
Challenger Disaster: Tragic Space Flight (Bredeson)
Charley Skedaddle (Beatty)
Double Life of Pocahontas (Fritz)
It's All Greek to Me (Scieszka)
John Henry (Lester)
Poppy (Avi)
Volcanoes (Meister)
Your Mother Was a Neanderthal (Scieszka)
Sight Word Guidelines
It is important that a young reader develop a store of sight words (words that are recognized immediately). The larger the store of sight words a child has, the more rapidly and fluently he or she can read.
The sight word must be “told” to the child. A parent/guardian should “show” the child the printed word. The child must “look”at the printed word when it is said. The parent/guardian should“use” the word in a sentence.
Other activities to build on your child’s sight word vocabulary:
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Point to the letters and name the letters in the sight word.
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Put the sight words on flashcards.
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Find the sight words in newspapers, magazines or books. Have children circle the word, use a highlighter or cut the word out and make their own list.
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Have your child: Say it! Write it! Cover it! Say it! And write it again!
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with |
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about |
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how |
up |
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then |
she |
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many |
some |
so |
these |
would |
other |
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into |
has |
more |
her |
two |
like |
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him |
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time |
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make |
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than |
first |
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who |
now |
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people |
my |
made |
over |
did |
down |
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way |
find |
use |
may |
water |
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long |
little |
very |
after |
words |
called |
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just |
where |
most |
know |
get |
through |
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back |
much |
go |
good |
new |
write |
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our |
me |
man |
too |
any |
day |
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same |
right |
look |
think |
also |
around |
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another |
came |
come |
work |
three |
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above |
across |
again |
air |
almost |
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along |
always |
animal |
answer |
asked |
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away |
began |
being |
below |
best |
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better |
between |
big |
both |
boy |
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change |
children |
country |
different |
don’t |
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during |
earth |
end |
enough |
ever |
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every |
example |
far |
father |
feet |
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few |
food |
form |
found |
four |
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give |
going |
got |
great |
hand |
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hard |
head |
hear |
heard |
help |
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here |
high |
home |
house |
however |
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important |
it’s |
keep |
kind |
knew |
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land |
large |
last |
left |
let |
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life |
light |
line |
live |
men |
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might |
mother |
name |
near |
need |
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never |
next |
night |
number |
off |
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often |
old |
once |
own |
page |
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paper |
picture |
place |
put |
read |
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saw |
say |
school |
second |
sentence |
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set |
several |
should |
show |
side |
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since |
small |
something |
soon |
sound |
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still |
story |
study |
such |
sun |
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sure |
take |
tell |
thing |
those |
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thought |
today |
together |
told |
took |
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try |
under |
until |
us |
want |
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well |
went |
while |
white |
whole |
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why |
without |
world |
year |
young |
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able |
add |
against |
ago |
American |
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among |
anything |
area |
became |
become |
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before |
behind |
black |
body |
book |
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brought |
built |
can’t |
cannot |
car |
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certain |
city |
close |
cold |
complete |
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course |
cut |
didn’t |
dog |
done |
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door |
draw |
early |
eat |
English |
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face |
family |
fast |
feel |
felt |
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fire |
fish |
five |
front |
full |
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gave |
green |
ground |
group |
grow |
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half |
himself |
hold |
horse |
hot |
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hundred |
I’ll |
I’m |
idea |
inside |
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kept |
later |
learn |
learned |
less |
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letter |
list |
lived |
living |
matter |
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mean |
money |
morning |
move |
nothing |
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notice |
oh |
open |
order |
perhaps |
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person |
plants |
play |
point |
probably |
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ran |
ready |
really |
red |
remember |
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rest |
room |
run |
sad |
sea |
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seen |
short |
shown |
six |
space |
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special |
stand |
state |
stood |
strong |
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table |
ten |
though |
top |
toward |
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town |
tree |
true |
turn |
turned |
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United States |
upon |
usually |
voice |
wind |
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yes |
yet |
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alone |
already |
although |
animals |
ask |
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baby |
ball |
base |
beautiful |
bed |
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begin |
beside |
bird |
blue |
boat |
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bottom |
bright |
bring |
build |
business |
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buy |
care |
carefully |
carry |
case |
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catch |
caught |
center |
check |
child |
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choose |
circle |
clear |
color |
correct |
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couldn’t |
dark |
deep |
difference |
distance |
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dry |
easy |
either |
else |
energy |
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everyone |
everything |
except |
explain |
eye |
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fact |
fall |
famous |
farm |
fell |
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field |
figure |
finally |
floor |
fly |
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follow |
foot |
free |
friend |
fun |
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game |
girl |
glass |
gold |
gone |
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government |
grass |
grew |
hair |
happened |
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happy |
heart |
heat |
heavy |
held |
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history |
hour |
human |
ice |
information |
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instead |
iron |
itself |
job |
language |
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late |
lay |
least |
leave |
leaves |
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length |
listen |
longer |
lost |
lot |
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low |
machine |
main |
map |
mark |
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maybe |
measure |
middle |
milk |
mind |
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miss |
modern |
moment |
moon |
mountain |
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mouth |
music |
natural |
north |
ocean |
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oil |
outside |
past |
pattern |
pay |
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plan |
plane |
poor |
possible |
power |
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present |
problem |
question |
quite |
rain |
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rather |
reach |
reading |
real |
reason |
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road |
rock |
round |
sat |
seem |
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sent |
seven |
shell |
ship |
simple |
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single |
size |
sky |
sleep |
snow |
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soil |
someone |
speak |
speed |
spring |
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square |
stay |
step |
store |
straight |
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strange |
street |
suddenly |
summer |
suppose |
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system |
tall |
teacher |
themselves |
third |
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thus |
tiny |
travel |
trip |
trouble |
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understand |
walked |
war |
warm |
watch |
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weather |
week |
whose |
wide |
wild |
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window |
winter |
wish |
within |
woman |
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won’t |
wood |
wrote |
you’re |
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