First Grade Reading List
This page has a first grade reading list.
If your child is in kindergarten and is ready for more of a reading challenge, it is OK to read these books.
If your child is struggling in second grade, reading these books either on their own or to you will help increase their confidence, reading rate and fluency.
Here is a great place to shop for books!
Books for Decoding
The Good Bad Cat and other School Zone books
by Nancy Antle
Bob Books First! and other Bob books
by Bobby Lynn Maslem
The Sunset Pond
by Laura Appleton Smith
Cat at Bat
by John Stadler
Jack and Jill and Big Dog Bill
by Martha Weston
Easy Books to Read
Go, Dog, Go! by P. D. Eastman
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
and other books from the I Can Read series
Hey, Tabby Cat by Phyllis Root
Mr. Putter and Tabby books by Cynthia Rylant
Cat Games by Harriet Ziefert
Books a Little Bit Harder to Read
Franklin books by Paulette Bourgeois
Clifford books by Norman Bridwell
Lionel books by Stephen Krensky
Frog and Toad are Friends books by Arnold Lobel
Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel
Fox Books by James Marshall
If You Give A Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Amelia Bedelia books by Peggy Parish
Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant
Nate the Great books by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Read Alouds
Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
More Great Books for First Grade!
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott
Engelbert Joins the Circus by Tom Paxton & Roberta Wilson
Little Bear by Elsa Holmelund Minarik
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow
Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
Snow Ponies by Cynthia Cotton
The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Click here for the Kindergarten List
Click here for the Second Grade List
Click here to suggest books for the First Grade Reading List.
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