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This booklist includes several favorite titles for first grade reading!

Reading Is Thinking!

Below is a list of questions to engage your child in a discussion of the story. This is a great way to practice comprehension skills and have them make connections to his/her own experiences.

Who are the characters?

What is the setting of the story? Where does the story take place?

What is the problem in the story? How was it solved?

Retell the story. What happened in the beginning? The middle? The end?

What was your favorite part? Why?

What did the story remind you of?

Were you surprised by anything in the book?

Happy Reading!

 

 

 

First Grade Book List
Title - click for more info Rating Difficulty
A Chair For My Mother
by Vera Williams
A Very Busy Year
by Leo Lionni
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
by Leo Lionni
Alphabet Soup
by Kate Banks
Are You My Mother
by P.D.Eastman
Bedtime for Francis
by Russell Hoban
Caps for Sale
by Esphyr Slobodkina
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
Corduory
by Don Freeman
Danny and the Dinosaur
by Syd Hoff
Frog and Toad Books
by Arnold Lobel
Froggy Gets Dressed
by Jonathan London
Henny Penny
by Paul Galdone
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Is Your Mama a Llama?
by Deborah Guarino
Jack and the Beanstalk
by Steven Kellogg
Just Me and My Dad
by Mercer Mayer
King Didgood's in the Bathtub
by Audrey Wood
Leo the Late Bloomer
by Robert Krauss
Let's Go Home Little Bear
by Martin Waddell
Little Bear Books
by Else Minarik
Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way For Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
Mouse Paint
by Ellen Stoll Walsh
My Best Friend
by Pat Hutchins
Over in the Meadow
by John Longstaff
Rosie's Walk
by Pat Hutchins
Sammy the Seal
by Syd Hoff
Sheep in a Jeep
by Nancy Shaw
Stellaluna
by Janell Cannon
Swinmmy
by Leo Lionni
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
by William Steig
The Doorbell Rang
by Pat Hutchins
The Gingerbread Boy
by Paul Galdone
The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton
The Little Old Lady Who WasNot Afraid of Anything
by Linda Williams
The Napping House
by Audrey Wood
The Teeney Tiny Woman
by Paul Gladone
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
There's a Nightmare in My Closet
by Mercer Mayer
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
 
Above Grade Level Suggestions
Title - click for more info Rating Difficulty
Cam Jansen
by David Adler
Horrible Harry
by Suzy Kline
Junie B. Jones
by Barbara Parks
Magic Tree House Chapter Books
by Mary Pope Osborne