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Zuckerman, A. (2009). Creature ABC. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

This alphabet book is illustrated with real life animal photography. Not only do children learn letter sounds, but animal words as well. The images in this book go above and beyond the usual "ABC" learning books.

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McClintock, M. (1958). A Fly Went by. New York: Random House.
This book is about a boy who sees a fly "buzzing" by. A fly is being chased by a frog, who is chased by a cat, who is chased by a dog....it goes on!

This book is comedic, and perfect for beginners. It contains 83% of sight words, and uses simple words with illustrations that gives clues to the context.

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Geisel, T. (1960). Green Eggs and Ham. New York: Random House

Sam-I-Am tries to persuade the character to eat green eggs and ham. This book is a classic, and one of my childhood favorites. It is perfect for beginning readers, as there are only 50 different words in the whole book. Repetition helps readers understand new vocabulary. A crucial phonemic skill children can learn from this, and other Dr.Seuss books, is rhyming.

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Pulver, R. (2011). Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes. New York: Holiday House.

Students in Mr.Wright's class don't want to learn anything else. The students do not react well learning they have to learn about suffixes after lunch, so the suffixes sneak off and hide in the gym - leaving clues (minus the suffixes) to be found.

This book covers suffixes and their importance. Readers help the students in the book by finding missing word endings.

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http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Sounds-Like-Reading.html

Brian Cleary uses humor to create this series of books. I could not limit myself to choosing one or two books from the series because they all seem great for teaching phonics to the early reader. Overall, the whole series focuses on blends, diagraphs, vowel dipthongs, and controlled R. His website, http://soundslikereading.com/ offers corresponding games and teacher resources.

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Charlesworth, L. (2010). Word Family Tales Box Set. Scholastic.

These humorous stories are meant to be read aloud and build early phonics skills. In this set by scholastic, there are individual books for the top 25 word families. By reading these "tales", students will begin to learn, understand, and decode words that share the same spelling pattern.

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Now I'm Reading!: Amazing Animals - Level 2 

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Now I'm Reading!: Amazing Animals - Level 2 

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Gaydos, N., & Sams, B. (2016). Now I'm Reading!: Amazing Animals - Level 2. New York: Random House.

This series integrates phonics and storytelling. The individual stories features silly animals at the main characters. The series introduces long vowel sounds and corresponding sight words. Text is repeated, and introduces readers to consonant blends and word endings.

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Barrett, J., & Barrett, R. (1982). Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

This is a funny tale of a town that rains food! Not only does the story use "fun language" to describe the weather, but it is full of compound words as well! Students can read this book (with over 15 compound words) to understand compounds and help build knowledge to create "new" compound words.

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Fox, B. J. (2012).  Word Identification Strategies:  Building Phonics into a Classroom Reading Program.  Boston:  Pearson.

This book is a great guide for preschool and elementary school teachers. There are many resources and activities offered in this text. An easy read, teachers can learn more about building phonemic awareness as well as helping students become literate.

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Brown, M. W., & Hurd, C. (1947).Goodnight moon;. New York: Harper.

This book helps children facilitate phonemic awareness. In the book, a bunny has a bedtime ritual of saying goodnight to everything. This classic children's literature exposes children to poetry, as well as rhyming patterns.