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The Books and Classroom Supplies Teachers Need for Kindergarten
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The Books and Classroom Supplies Teachers Need for Kindergarten
Welcome to kindergarten! We know how exciting of a time this is to get into the classroom and begin teaching your new class of eager students.
Early childhood education is a very special place to be, and while things can seem overwhelming at first glance, there’s also so much potential for fun, excitement, and growth!
Discover 15+ books to get kids excited about kindergarten here.
That's why we've created this list as a one-stop shop for everything you need to build a vibrant, colorful classroom environment for incoming students to feel welcome, confident, and ready to learn with the suggestions below. You’ll find all the supplies you need, from kindergarten books to fill your library shelves to teacher classroom supplies and storage to supplement and organize your materials.
Whether you're just stepping into the classroom or have been teaching for a few years, these books and supplies will help the upcoming school year run even smoother.
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Book sets are a great way to save while quickly building a robust classroom library. Plus, the more titles you can provide to your students, the more they will want to keep coming back to read more everyday.
Here are the most popular kindergarten book sets and collections teachers choose:
Young readers can now carry their favorite Clifford the Big Red Dog storybooks with them wherever they go in one convenient box set with a handle!
Help your students soar with this irresistible A-to-Z book set! Inside you'll find 26 titles that teach each letter via a funny tale and a host of easy activities. Includes a family guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
This collection of quality Scholastic titles features everyone's favorite cool cat in leveled readers written for successful independent reading!
A creative young boy wants a pet for The Amazing Pet Show, so he catches a fly-little knowing that Fly Guy will become a great friend!
It is vital that students be able to see themselves in the books they read; and for students to read about people unlike themselves. This collection features characters and stories that have often been overlooked.
It is vital that students learn social emotional skills like confidence, compassion, resilience, and responsibility. This collection from Scholastic features titles that teach mindful kindness to children.
Fiction books are a fun and easy way to spark your students’ imaginations and instill an interest in reading. They’re also ideal for class read-aloud time, which will set the foundation for your students’ reading skills and love of books.
Introducing kids to vibrant characters and fun adventures (or even misadventures!) will broaden their horizons and teach them important lessons about kindness, feelings, and filling buckets.
Here are the most popular kindergarten fiction books teachers choose:
This upbeat tale features easy-to-follow rhyming text, expressive illustrations, and familiar classroom scenes that will help get little ones excited for their first day of school.
Here is the story of a little raccoon who confronts the first day of school and needs reassurance. Mother Raccoon finds an unforgettable way of communicating the message that everyone most needs to hear.
Many claim to have caught a mermaid, but can YOU?
How do you catch a mermaid?
You must be very clever.
With mirrors, crowns, and pearls galore,
this quest can't last forever!
It's Pete the Cat's first day of school! He's wearing his totally awesome school shoes, which take him all over the school. From the library to the playground, Pete encounters one new place after another. But he knows he has nothing to worry about, because he's ready for anything in his special red shoes!
When a generous boy shares a cookie with a hungry mouse, it is the beginning of a chain of events that keeps the boy busy all day long, and might keep him busy for days to come. If you give a mouse a cookie, after all, he's bound to ask for a glass of milk, for which he'll certainly need a straw, not to mention a napkin, and a mirror to check for a milk mustache, which will only lead to him noticing that he needs a haircut.
When they have to part from a loved one, they might cry, or hide in their bedrooms, or even write "DON'T GO!" on the wall. But with a little courage, they can face their fears. They can tell grown-ups how they're feeling and know that time apart can still be filled with love.
Emily Elizabeth is starting Kindergarten and she's a little nervous. Good thing that the teacher sent a note home that says each child can bring something from home to make the transition a little easier. But the teacher didn't bet on a child bringing something — or someone — as big as Clifford!
Turn little pouts into big smiles! Mr. Pout-Pout Fish is nervously awaiting his first day of school, and he frets about not knowing how to write his name, how to draw shapes, and how to do math - until he's reassured that school is the perfect place to learn how to master all of these new skills.
Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Purple crayon try to guess what they will be able to create. When a diverse group of students finally puts them to use they get quite a workout as they work together to make a giant rainbow.
Providing your students with nonfiction books gives them the opportunity to enjoy stories and discover new things about the world around them simultaneously. These books will get them excited about topics like earth science, animals, and diverse cultures around the world.
Here are the most popular kindergarten nonfiction books teachers choose:
Discover what your life would be like if you had these special coats -- and find out why your skin is just right for you!
These emergent readers introduce the youngest readers to school and build understanding and excitement for what lies ahead!
Go around the world with this beautifully illustrated picture book from Margaret Wise Brown.
Poetic text and awe-inspiring illustrations guide readers on a journey explaining the causes of climate change and how people can make the world better.
This advanced reader presents information in an accessible, appealing way, with plenty of adorable photos and a helpful glossary.
Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an scientific trailblazer. The second book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Jane Goodall focuses on Jane's lifelong mission to understand the chimpanzees and protect the planet.
Lyrical, affirmational, and bursting with love, We Are Here is a poignant story about Black and brown heritage and community. Full of assurance, tenderness, and triumph, this much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling picture book All Because You Matter offers an equally inspirational and arresting ode to all of the Black women and men throughout history who have made momentous contributions from the beginning of time.
This funny and factual picture book explains the science behind the ocean: its plant and animal life, its contribution to the world, and what we can do every day to protect it. Humans wouldn't be able to survive without a healthy ocean. That's kind of a big deal.
Because of an acorn, a tree grows, a bird nests, a seed becomes a flower. Enchanting die-cuts illustrate the vital connections between the layers of an ecosystem in this magical book. Wander down the forest path to learn how every tree, flower, plant, and animal connect to one another in spiraling circles of life. An acorn is just the beginning.
Workbooks are the perfect way to encourage your students to practice their newly-honed skills.
Engaging characters, puzzles, games, and more await students in the pages of these colorful workbooks that sharpen their key skills such as letter recognition and counting.
Here are the most popular kindergarten workbooks teachers choose:
The best way to teach sight words is through practice and repetition. This book will help increase familiarity through games and activities designed to boost students' recognition of the top 100 sight words!
Perfect for classroom or at-home use, this exciting practice book includes dot-to-dots, mazes, hidden pictures, matching, and more-all to teach the letters of the alphabet!
With everything from the phonics, word families, sight words, handwriting, and math skills this workbook is both challenging and fun. Help your child learn, practice, and sharpen key skills!
Make mastering sight words fun with this colorful workbook! As children progress through the book, they’ll familiarize themselves with sight words and strengthen their spelling skills-paving the way for reading success!
Put children on the path to reading success with these fun, engaging activity books! Each book targets 100 key sight words.
Unlock the key to reading success with engaging jumbo activity book! With more than 300 delightful practice pages targeting key phonics skills, children have ample practice to master the skills they need to be successful learners.
With more than 300 pages of illustrated mazes, hidden pictures, spot-the-difference, word searches, and more, the Jumbo Book of Kindergarten Fun will delight, captivate, and motivate every child.
Cars, trucks, trains, planes ...Children are naturally captivated by "things that go." This book is filled with mazes, hidden pictures, connect the dots, word searches, drawing activities, and more that showcase amazing vehicles. The convenient wipe-clean format means your child can complete each activity again and again.
Based on the science of reading, phonics and word recognition are some of the core instructional areas for kindergarteners. Give your students the support they need to flourish as lifelong readers with targeted solutions toward reading instruction.
Here are the most popular Science of Reading resources for kindergarten teachers choose:
Give children the tools they need to soar as readers with this irresistible set of highly decodable stories! Inside the bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with simple, short-vowel words plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
Set children on the road to literacy success with these playful, highly decodable stories! Inside this bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with must-know blends and digraphs plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
Lay the foundation for literacy success with this super-engaging set of highly decodable stories! Inside the bright box, you’ll find 12 funny books that provide targeted practice with simple, long-vowel words plus a tip-filled parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers.
Each box contains laminated cards that target and teach must-know concepts including short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. The front of each card introduces the skill focus while the back challenges kids to read a just-right decodable story. Includes five copies of each card to facilitate group learning and a complete teaching guide.
Each box contains laminated cards that target and teach must-know concepts including short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. The front of each card introduces the skill focus while the back challenges kids to read a just-right decodable story. Includes five copies of each card to facilitate group learning and a complete teaching guide.
Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has updated his best-selling classic to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading, as well as current research on handwriting and on phonemic awareness. This revised edition also offers ideas for maximizing your scope and sequence, practical tips for creating sound walls, a decodable text routine for building comprehension, strategies for differentiating during whole-group lessons while better targeting small-group work, and more.
In this must-have follow-up to his landmark best-seller Phonics From A to Z, Wiley Blevins explains why quality decodable texts are an essential early learning tool and how to distinguish the good from the bad. This resource offers practical lessons and routines for using decodable texts to build children’s phonics and fluency skills, as well as tips on selecting strong decodable texts and what to do if you don’t have any. Includes fun and engaging reproducible decodable mini-books.
Supporting kindergarten classroom materials not only benefit you, but also your students! These tools will help you guide students through the new subjects they'll learn.
Whether your kindergarteners are learning colors, days of the week, or sight words, these materials provide consistent reminders of the concepts and skills they'll develop during your lesson plans.
Here are the most popular kindergarten supporting materials teachers choose:
Invite young writers to tell all about themselves in word and pictures with this literacy-boosting all-about-me robot. A great back-to-school icebreaker!
Promote respectful conversation in the classroom while building critical thinking skills.
Reinforce sight word learning with this colorful word wall set. Features the first 100 words from the Fry list. Includes 12 write-on/wipe-off cards to customize. A perfect addition to the early learning classroom.
Reproducible pages on the back of each chart! Plastic-coated for color-fastness and durability! Write-on, wipe-off surface!
This all-in-one math reference set includes a place value chart, a hundred chart, an addition table, a multiplication table, and a fraction equivalents chart-a perfect supplement to any math curriculum! Includes an activity guide.
As many teachers know, you really can never have too many supplies for the year ahead! Even if you stock up on just a few key materials, look for ones that are colorful, bright, and catch your students’ attention.
Fun stickers, awards, and name plates all make a big difference in making your students feel accomplished and excited to keep learning.
Here are the most popular kindergarten supplies teachers choose:
These clever Ticket Awards are padded for easy use. Each award is perforated into two parts. One part is filled out by the teacher and the student takes it home to show parents. The second part is signed by the student and placed in a container for a chance of a prize in a classroom or school-wide drawing!
Keep your library organized with these useful labels.
Recognize student achievement with these colorful must-have mini stickers.
While you’re building your new classroom library, it’s important to remember that storing your books safely is what will keep them in circulation for years to come. Tubs and bins are many teachers’ go-to tools for keeping their libraries organized and are important kindergarten classroom supplies.
Here are the most popular kindergarten storage tools teachers choose:
Convenient and sturdy plastic bins for storing books and teaching materials help keep your classroom resources neat and organized!
With these professional development books, understanding how to apply the best teaching strategies for the grade will benefit you and each of your students for the whole year.
Here are the best professional development books teachers choose for kindergarten:
Literacy champions Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp provide teachers with the advice they need to transform the classroom library into a true instructional partner.
Build classroom community and honor the identities of everyone in your class with thoughtfully chosen multicultural mentors texts, such as Alma and How She Got Her Name, Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao, In My Mosque, and more.
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students.
This smart, simple approach ensures that kindergarteners write at or above a first-grade level by the end of the year.
Literacy advocates showcase the power of children's access to books, providing teachers and administrators with the tools and information they need to increase children's meaningful engagement with books and to launch or sustain book access initiatives in their communities.
Engaging families in education benefits everyone. Student achievement goes up, families get stronger, and teachers and administrators can do their job more effectively. Everyone wins!
Games and manipulatives are fun ways to continue lessons in reading, writing, math, and more! In fact, they are a huge part of kindergarten classroom essentials.
While your students play and solve puzzles, they’ll be having fun learning the ins and outs of words, numbers, colors, and shapes.
Here are the most popular kindergarten classroom games and manipulatives teachers choose:
Help your child master reading and build vocabulary with these double-sided flash cards featuring the 44 sounds in the English language.
Help children build their vocabulary with these double-sided flash cards featuring 110 common words. Features full color photographs and includes a parent guide with games and activities.
Here's a new fun way to lead children on the road to literacy! Colorful mats and letter tiles make learning and practicing the alphabet fun.
Colorful mats and word tiles make learning and practicing phonics fun.
Here's a new fun way to lead children on the road to literacy! Colorful mats and word tiles make learning and practicing sight words fun.
The 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles in the set are designed to help children develop automaticity (fluency) with alphabet recognition skills.
Here’s a fun way to teach and reinforce beginning consonant letter sounds! The 20 self-checking, 5-piece puzzles in the set are designed to help children develop automaticity (fluency) with alphabet recognition skills.
Have fun rhyming! This colorful set includes an activity guide and 25 self-checking, 3-piece puzzles designed to be used in two ways-as 2-piece puzzles and as 3-piece puzzles as children progress. Two sets in one!
Stock up your classroom library with these budget-friendly books. Kindergartners are growing readers so it is important to expose your students to a variety of books. From funny rhyming tales to empowering stories — there is something for everyone!
Beauty is much more than how one looks on the outside. True beauty is found in conquering challenges, showing kindness, and spreading contagious laughter. Beautiful girls are empowered, smart, and really, really strong!
The silly, funny, fantastic story of a boy who didn't wash his hands and the crazy consequences that ensue as he spreads a bit of grossness around.
David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each school day with trouble, and are sure to bring a smile to even the best-behaved reader.
When Esperanza finds a heart-shaped rock, she is reminded to be kind and forgiving. But when her work in the school play is flawed, will she remember to be kind to herself?
Pete can't wait to visit Grandma, especially because he gets to take a train ride to see her! The conductor gives Pete a tour of the train, and Pete gets to see the engine and honk the horn. Pete even makes new friends and plays games on board. What a cool ride!
Kindergarten is the time when many kids learn important life skills like manners and emotion regulation. Plus, these social-emotional books have eye-catching illustrations and relatable characters that will help your students stay engaged. Teach your students valuable lessons with these inspiring stories!
In plain language, parents of a brightly colored rockfish share lessons about how to swim joyfully through life.
This inclusive picture book rejoices in the specialness of each person's beauty and ability. "Affirming and welcome"-Kirkus
Enjoy these very simple stories that teach hard-to-explain emotions, such as disappointment, that are so challenging for toddlers and preschoolers to control.
With light-footed rhymes and high-stepping illustrations, this tale is gentle inspiration for every child with dreams of greatness.
A girl in a red hat finds the courage to be kind to the new student in class. Her kindness spreads, until her whole community experiences the magical shift that happens when people understand what it means to be kind, and act on their best impulses!
The third hilarious book in the series features a has-bean trying desperately to fit in, until the cool beans show him that it's cooler to be kind.
Feelings are a normal part of life for children as well as adults, believes author Janan Cain, who wanted kids both to understand the concept of emotions and be able to express their feelings with words.
