Thematic Reading List: 10 Books to Complement Grammar Teaching
Need supplemental text for your language arts lessons? These 10 picture books complement grammar learning for grades K-3.
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Alfie the Apostrophe By: Moira Rose Donohue Illustrated by: JoAnn Adinolfi Alfie the Apostrophe feels unsure of himself until he shows off his abilities for possessives and making contractions at the Punctuation Talent Show. |
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Karate Contractions By: Gail Herman As Buzz and Isobel report on the tournament’s events, their conversation is filled with contractions, all in bold print, and Buzz fills Isobel in on the many rules. In this volume of the Grammar All-Stars: Kinds of Words series, sports announcer Buzz Star is covering a karate tournament and teaching Isobel, last year’s winner, about the proper use of contractions. |
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The Day Punctuation Came to Town By: Kimberlee Gard Illustrated by: Sandie Sonke There’s a new family in town: the Punctuations! When Exclamation Point, Question Mark, Period, and Comma join the letters at school, they form words like Wow! and Why? and Yes. But Comma isn’t sure where he belongs. He just seems to get in the way. Is he really important? |
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Dear Deer: a book of homophones By: Gene Barretta When clever Aunt Ant moves to the zoo, she describes the quirky animal behavior she observes by speaking in homophones, from the moose who loved mousse to the fox who blew blue bubbles. |
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Here Comes Silent e! By: Anna Jane Hays Illustrated by: JoAnn Adinolfi Silent e, a quiet, unassuming young boy, magically changes objects wherever he goes, such as making a little bit of cake a bite of cake or turning a kit into a kite. |
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If You Were Quotation Marks By: Molly Blaisdell Illustrated by: Sara Gray A fun way to learn where quotation marks belong through a story about a classroom production of different plays. |
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Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day By: Robin Pulver Illustrated by: Lynn Rowe Reed When the children in Mr. Wright’s class have a field day, nouns and verbs in the classroom make their own fun. |
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Silent Letters Loud and Clear By: Robin Pulver Illustrated by: Lynn Rowe Reed When Mr. Wright’s students express a dislike for silent letters, the offended letters decide to teach them a lesson by going on strike. |
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The Vowel Family: a tale of lost letters By: Sally M. Walker Illustrated by: Kevin Luthardt The members of the Vowel family have a hard time talking until their children, Alan, Ellen, Iris, Otto, and Ursula, are born, and when one of them gets lost one day, it takes their Aunt Cyndy to fix the problem. |
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The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants By: Priscilla Turner Illustrated by: Whitney Turner The vowels and the consonants fight each other until they realize that if they work together, they can create marvelous poems, plays, and memoirs. |
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