Discover fiction and nonfiction titles that are just right for the earliest readers in grades Pre-K-1.
Building confident, independent readers starts early. These fiction and nonfiction beginning readers for Level A students combine diverse, engaging content with simple, short, and easy-to-see print, making them ideal for close reading and building foundational literacy skills.
There are even several wordless titles to help your students begin to understand context clues and to take the pressure off comprehending text. These titles are just the right place to start as you build your Guided Reading library.
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Young readers will learn about helping. Do you like to help? How do you help?
No one at the pond has seen Mother Duck's missing baby. But clever viewers can see that the duckling isn't really lost, just adventuring.
Beginning readers explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings while they look at the beach to discover what they see.
While young readers count the number of fish they see, they'll discover the relationship between numbers and quantities and connect counting to cardinality.
Young readers will discover that human hair comes in all colors and styles.
What animals swim in a pond?
Young learners will discover what animals live in the woods.
Simple routines, such as getting dressed to go out, help little ones learn what it means to be ready.
Emergent readers can read texts with purpose and understanding as they learn what the little panda can do.
A girl and her dad work together to build a rabbit house.
Discover why Skippy the dog likes all four seasons.
Filled with charm and fun, this wordless picture book about a snowman come to life lets kids tell their own version of the story.
Emergent readers can read about trucks of all shapes and sizes.
Photographs and simple texts describing the many things that insects do.
A box can be a boat, a plane ... and so much more!
Three children discover a magical bag of chalk on a rainy day.
A bug for every color!
This nonfiction series for beginning readers features concise on-level text and full-color photographs about penguins.
A simple yet dramatic story about friendship between two lonely boys.
Give young readers a broad overview of writing.
This nonfiction book for beginning readers features concise on-level text and full-color photographs about kittens.
Perfect first reading practice which teaches healthy eating nad shows children how to make their own fruit salad.
A family of raccoons is on the go.
What kinds of things can you do with your mom?
What does Butterfly like?
We like to play! Read to see how.
What lives in the sea?
Young readers will learn about time. Is it time to read? Is it time to play? What time is it?
This easy-to-read book has wonderful photographs of bears and the things they like.