KidBibs Grow-a-Reader List for 7-8 Year Olds

Language and Literacy Development:	Seven- and eight-year-old children are moving toward being able to read more types of material independently. They can set their own purposes for reading and maintain concentration while reading silently. They often choose "easy" material that they can read successfully and quickly. Many second graders enjoy the grown-up feeling of reading books with chapters (chapter books). They're now familiar with more types of literature. They start identifying favorite authors or series that they like to read. They're starting to read informational writing and learning more technical words related to science, math, social studies, and health. Some children in this age group have discovered the fun of writing; they often choose to keep journals. Others enjoy writing stories or poetry that they can share with friends and family. They continue to work on their understanding of the writing process as drafting, rewriting, and revising those stories that they'd like to share with others. They can define an audience and purpose for writing. They still have some invented spellings in their written drafts ("sloppy copies"), but they now have the strategies to change them to standard spellings on finished, polished writing products. These students can verbalize what good readers and writers do. They are using reading to enrich and strengthen their writing! And they are using writing to enrich and strengthen their reading!

Reading Interests:	taking pride in their ability to read books about friends and friendship books about animals

Children's Books:	The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble and Steven Kellogg (illustrator) The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaola; Spanish edition: La Clase de Dibujo Swimmy by Leo Leonni Fables by Arnold Lobel If You Were a Writer by Joan Lowery Nixon. Author: A True Story by Helen Lester. Carlos and the Cornfield/Carlos y la Milpa de Maiz by Jan Romero Stevens and Jeanne Arnold (illustrator) Amelia's Road by Linda Jacobs Altman; Spanish edition: El camino de Amelia Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney; Spanish edition: La señorita Runfio A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams, Audio cassette; Spanish edition: Un sillion para mi mama The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky; Audio cassette Freckle Juice by Judy Blume; Spanish edition: Jugo de pecas Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. Audio cassette. Spanish edition: Las Telaranos de Carlota. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary; Audio cassette. Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume; Audio cassette. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein; Audio Cassette Popular series: Kids of the Polk Street School and other series by Patricia Reilly Giff Polk Street Special series by Patricia Reilly Giff American Girls series Felicity Josefina Kirsten Addy Samantha Molly Encyclopedia Brown by Donald Sobol Informational Books: National Geographic Action (pop-up) Books The Fascinating World of.....series Reference Books: Scholastic Children's Dictionary Roget's Children Thesaurus The New Puffin Children's World Atlas The Kingfisher First Encyclopedia The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary