As children interact with others through exploration and play, they develop language skills and knowledge. Each child progresses at their own pace dependent on their cognitive, social, and emotional development. From kindergarten through second grade, there are many examples, opens a new window of how children’s activities are related to reading and writing.
Learning the relationship between the alphabet letters and spoken words helps create effective readers. Phonic and decoding skills, opens a new window assist children to recognize familiar words quickly and to make sense of new words.
Books tailored to early readers vary in their level of reading difficulty. Glenview Public Library offers a simple colored dot system to help children as they progress through beginning readers to early chapter books. Follow our reading path, opens a new window, which helps your child progress to more challenging books.
Like adults, children are more likely to read a book on a topic that interests them, so encourage them to select their own books. In addition to stories, nonfiction books that inform and delight the curious reader are available at all reading levels. To help you find a just-right book for your beginning reader, we've put together a couple book lists below to get you started.
Booklists
Letter recognition is a fundamental part of learning how to read and write. This list of alphabet sounds and sight words offers pre-readers a fun way to develop early literacy skills with confidence.
These resources will help to improve your reading skills by applying your knowledge of letter-sound relationships and patterns to correctly pronounce written words.
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