These are lists of words that every child should know
to be a successful reader. .
Suggested activities with words:
Make words for your child to trace
Cut out words: organize them into like categories, put them on
flash cards, make a concentration game, alphabetize them, etc.
Group word families
Use each word in a meaningful sentence. You make a sentence
have your child expand it
Use individual letters to make words
Make word boxes
Make a sound box and put one letter in each box to form a word.
Have a family word of the week, a new word that everyone uses
in conversation until it becomes familiar by the end of the week
Traveling in the car, play word games
At the beach make giant words in the sand
Sidewalk chalk can make any word play more fun
Dolch Word List - Alphabetical
PrePre-primer
Primer
First
Second
Third
a
all
after
always
about
and
am
again
around
better
away
are
an
because
bring
big
at
any
been
carry
blue
ate
as
before
clean
can
be
ask
best
cut
come
black
by
both
done
down
brown
could
buy
draw
find
but
every
call
drink
for
came
fly
cold
eight
funny
did
from
does
fall
go
do
give
don't
far
help
eat
going
fast
full
here
four
had
first
got
I
get
has
five
grow
in
good
her
found
hold
is
have
him
gave
hot
hurt
it
he
his
goes
jump
into
how
green
if
little
like
just
its
keep
look
must
know
made
kind
make
new
let
many
laugh
me
no
live
off
light
my
now
may
or
long
not
on
of
pull
much
one
our
old
read
myself
play
out
once
right
never
red
please
open
sing
only
run
pretty
over
sit
own
said
ran
put
sleep
pick
see
ride
round
tell
seven
the
saw
some
their
shall
three
say
stop
these
show
to
she
take
those
six
two
so
thank
upon
small
start
up
soon
them
us
we
that
then
use
ten
where
there
think
very
today
yellow
they
walk
wash
together
you
this
were
which
try
too
when
why
warm
under
wish
want
work
was
would
well
write
went
your
what
white
who
will
with
yes
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Here is a book list for your child’s reading pleasure. These suggestions are listed by your child’s
Open Court Language Arts Themes for this year. We hope that you will share information and
related experiences you may have had in these areas with your child. Also if you read any
articles this related to these themes please share them with us here at school.
Read On,
Ms. Mulvaney
Fourth Grade Now
Theme: Level 5 Unit 1 - Cooperation and Competition
The Big Bike Race
The Kid Who Ran For President
The Wheel on the School Bus
Iditarod Dream: Dusty and His Sled Dogs Compete in Alaska’s Jr. Iditarod
The View From Saturday
A World in Our Hands: In Honor of the 50thAnniversary of the United Nations
Theme: Level 5 Unit 2 - Astronomy
The Planets
Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
Adventure in Space: The Flight to Fix the Hubble
The Young Astronomer
Edwin Hubble: American Astronomer
Tales of the Shimmering Sky: Ten Global Folktales with Activities
Theme: Level 5 Unit 3 - Heritage
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
This Land Is My Land
Going Back Home: An American Artist Returns to the South
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are
Do People Grow on Family Trees?
Theme: Level 5 Unit 4 - Making a New Nation
Samuel’s Choice
Toliver’s Secret
Johnny Tremain
A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
Mr. Revere and I
Come All You Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War
Theme: Level 5 Unit 5 - Going West
Boom Town
Striking It Rich: The Story of the California Gold
Black- Eyed Susan
By the Great Horn Spoon!
Children of the Wild West
Caddie Woodlawn
Theme: Level 5 Unit 6 - Journeys and Quests
Alicia’s Treasure
Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho
El Guero
Coast to Coast
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story
Call It Courage
Third Grade Now
Theme: Level 4 Unit 1 - Risks and Consequences
The Big Balloon Race
A Day’s Work
Poppy
Sarah, Plain and Tall
The Landry News
From the Mixed- Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Theme: Level 4 Unit 2 - Dollars and Sense
Max Malone Makes a Million
What’s Cooking, Jenny Archer?
The Toothpaste Millionaire
Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors
Odd Jobs
Better Than a Lemonade Stand!
Theme: Level 4 Unit 3 - From Mystery to Medicine
Germs Make Me Sick!
Pasteur’s Fight Against Microbes
Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium
Kids to the Rescue! First Aid Techniques for Kids
The First Woman Doctor
Fever: 1793
Theme: Level 4 Unit 4 - Survival
Harry the Poisonous Centipede
My Grandmother’s Journey
Whichaway
Frozen Fire
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Voyage of the Frog
Theme: Level 4 Unit 5 - Communication
Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello
Burton and Stanley
Dear Mr. Henshaw
The Chimpanzee Family Book
The Cat’s Elbow and Other Secret Languages
Julie’s Wolf Pack
Theme: Level 4 Unit 6 - A Changing America
Sleds on Boston Common: A Story of the American Revolution
The Discovery of the Americas
Stranded at Plimouth Plantation, 1626
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
The Louisiana Purchase
Gold Rush! The Young Prospector’s Guide to Striking it Rich
Second Grade Now
Theme: Level 3 Unit 1 - Friendship
Charlotte’s Web
Stevie
Best Friends
Amigo
The Mountain That Loved a Bird
Alex Is My Friend
Theme: Level 3 Unit 2 - City Wildlife
Wild in the City
Come Back Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek
and Brought it Back to Life
Farewell to Shady Glade
Coyotes in the Crosswalk: True Tales of Animal Life in the Wilds of the City
The City Kid’s Field Guide
Birds, Nests, and Eggs
Theme: Level 3 Unit 3 - Imagination
Behind the Couch
My Life with the Wave
Maria’s Comet
Frederick
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Crocodile’s Masterpiece
Theme: Level 3 Unit 4 - Money
Lemonade for Sale
Round and Round the Money Goes
Saturday Sancocho
The Treasure
Our Money
Screen of Frogs
Theme: Level 3 Unit 5 - Storytelling
Tell Me a Story, Mama
The Worry Stone
May’naise Sandwiches & Sunshine Tea
One Grain of Rice
A Storyteller’s Story
Firetalking
Theme: Level 3 Unit 6 - Country Life
The Raft
Night in the Country
Mowing
Winter Wheat
A River Ran Wild
Unseen Rainbows, Silent Songs: The World Beyond Human Senses
First Grade Now
Theme: Level 2 Unit 1 - Sharing Stories
Just Like Me
Mouse Tales
The Wednesday Surprise Jeremiah Learns to Read
Painted Words
Theme: Level 2 Unit 2 - Kindness
Abe Lincoln’s Hat
Jamaica’s Find
The Bat in the Boot
The Giving Tree
Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen
A Chair for My Mother
Theme: Level 2 Unit 3 - Look Again
The Trek
Who’s Hiding There?
The Mixed Up Chameleon
A Color of His Own
What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You?
Animals in Disguise
Theme: Level 2 Unit 4 - Fossils
Dinosaur Babies
The Day of the Dinosaur
A Boy Wants a Dinosaur
If the Dinosaurs Came Back
Archaeologists Dig for Clues
How Big Were the Dinosaurs?
Theme: Level 2 Unit 5 - Courage
White Dynamite and Curly Kid
What’s Under My Bed?
Ruth Law Thrills a Nation
Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher
Birdie’s Lighthouse
The Buffalo Jump
Theme: Level 2 Unit 6 - Our Country and Its People
Dancing with the Indians
A Picnic in October
Amelia’s Road
Dragon Parade
The Lotus Seed
Dumpling Soup
Kindergarten Now
Theme: Level 1 Unit 1 - Let's Read!
America My Land Your Land Our Land
I Read Signs
Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10
The Old Woman Who Loved to Read
A Cake for Herbie
More Than Anything Else
Theme: Level 1 Unit 2 - Animals
Sweet Dreams: How Animals Sleep
Moo Moo, Brown Cow
Here Is the African Savanna
Is Your Mama a Llama?
A Pinky is a Baby Mouse
Wolf Watch
Theme: Level 1 Unit 3 - Things That Go
I Spy A Freight Train
Wheels Around
This Plane
This is the Way We Go to School
The Listening Walk
Firehorse Max
Theme: Level 1 Unit 4 - Our Neighborhood at Work
Communities
Night Shift Daddy
My Town
One Afternoon
Career Day
Mommy Works, Daddy Works
Theme: Level 1 Unit 5 - Weather
Snow
Snowballs
Rain
Red Rubber Boot Day
Twister
Snow Is Falling
Theme: Level 1 Unit 6 - Journeys
Rosie’s Walk
The Train Ride
Amelia’s Fantastic Flight
I’m Not Moving, Mama!
Ferry-boat Ride!
The Josefina Story Quilt
Theme: Level 1 Unit 7 - Keep Trying
Flap Your Wings and Try
The Chick and the Duckling
One Stuck Duck
One Fine Day
The Purple Coat
The Story of a Blue Bird
Theme: Level 1 Unit 8 - Games
This is Baseball
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
What’s What? A Guessing Game
Leon and Bob
James and the Rain
Theme: Level 1 Unit 9 - Being Afraid
Sheila Rae, the Brave
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
First Day Jitters
Let’s Go Home Little Bear
Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?
Feelings
Theme: Level 1 Unit 10 - Homes
My House, Mi Casa: A Book in Two Languages
To Market, To Market
The Somebody House
Homeplace
The Little House
Livingstone Mouse
Pre – Kindergarten Now
Theme: Level K Unit 1 - School
Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw
The 100th Day of School
Billy and the Big New School
Vera's First Day of School
Bea and Mr. Jones
The Kissing Hand
Theme: Level K Unit 2 - Shadows
Footprints and Shadows
Shadows are About
I Have a Friend
My Shadow
What Makes Day and Night?
Sun Up, Sun Down
Theme: Level K Unit 3 - Finding Friends
My Friends
Yo! Yes!
Will You Be My Friend?
George and Martha One Fine Day
Friends
May I Bring a Friend?
Theme: Level K Unit 4 - The Wind
The Wind Blew
One Windy Wednesday
The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain
What Makes the Wind?
Millicent and the Wind
Feel the Wind
Theme: Level K Unit 5 - Stick To It
The Carrot Seed
Leo the Late Bloomer
You'll Soon Grow into Them, Titch
JoJo's Flying Side Kick
Paul Bunyan: A Tall Tale
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
Theme: Level K Unit 6 - Red, White, and Blue
The Pledge of Allegiance
'Night, America
This Land is Your Land
Happy Birthday, America!
The Flag We Love
Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers
Theme: Level K Unit 7 - Teamwork
Can I Help?
Animal Orchestra
Tippy Bear Hunts for Honey
Helping Out
Stone Soup
The Great Trash Bash
Theme: Level K Unit 8 - By the Sea
Oceans
In the Ocean
Tacky the Penguin
Fish Faces
The Seashore Book
Commotion in the Ocean