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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault

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Letters of the alphabet try and climb up the coconut tree! While it is an easy read, this is a story all students love.
This book is perfect for both rhyme instruction and the alphabetic principle. Students learn letters while hearing rhymes throughout the story, becoming familiar with both.
A wonderful activity to match this book is to create a class coconut tree. Give each student a letter, then ask them what sound it makes and what word starts with it. Have them place it on a coconut tree, and continue until the tree is full. This activity can be done with rhyming words too instead of the alphabet.

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The Bat Boy & His Violin by Gavin Curtis

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The Bat Boy & His Violin by Gavin Curtis

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Reginald is a violinist whose father is the manager of the Dukes, a baseball team in the Negro league. His father recruits him as a bat boy for the team. He keeps messing up, so he decided to play his violin. He plays as Dukes players bat, and the team wins the game! He continues to play as the games go on and the Dukes continue to win. While the Dukes lose their important game, Reginald gets to perform at his recital and all is well.
This book can be used during instruction about morphemes since it is such a word-heavy book.
For the activity, one can never go wrong with a good game of bingo. Create cards for the students filled with morphemes from the story. Teach students about morphemes before the story, then tell them to check off their bingo cards as they listen and hear them in the text. Have prizes for winners!

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Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

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Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

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This isn't just a book, rather a collection of little stories about Frog and Toad. We see their friendship as Frog tries to get Toad out of bed, Toad tries to tell sick Frog a story, and as a button is lost, among other things.
These stories would be helpful when teaching students about sentence structure. Throughout the stories, sentences vary in length, and this can get students familiarized with how sentences are formed.
In one of the stories, Toad loses a button and he and Frog look for it. Have students pair up after reading the story and create a sentence. Write one half on one piece of paper, then the other half on another. Scatter them throughout the room, then have students look for and find the two half-sentences that belong together, like how Toad searched for his button.

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieska

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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieska

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Think about the story of the three little pigs, then imagine it from the wolf's perspective... Alexander Wolf needs a cup of sugar to cook his grandma's birthday cake. He knocks on his neighbors doors, each a pig, to get the sugar. Each time, he sneezes while at the door. The houses fall down and end up crushing the pigs. At the third pig's house, he ended up getting upset and being arrested. The wolf swears he was framed.
Since this is a variation of an already well-known story, this book can be used when increasing students' word recognition.
As an activity, students can recreate the cover of the book with another fairytale after reading the story. On the side, to mimic the newsprint, could be a blurb using words they recognized from the book that the students read aloud to the teacher.

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I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

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I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

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Charlie's sister, Lola, is an extremely picky eater. To get her to eat food, Charlie thinks up fun names and exotic stories for each food. Lola is determined to never eat a tomato. That is until she points to a bowl of tomatoes and asks Charlie for one. Lola eats it, but she is under the impression that what she ate was a moonsquirter.
This book is another great book to accompany a print concepts lesson. Words float everywhere on the page, following our characters and ending up in the most untraditional places.
For this activity, have students pick their favorite food. Then, have them create a new name for that food and a new story as to where it came from. Have students draw the fruit and write the story, but encourage them to write in similar text style to the book.

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The Day Santa Stopped Believing In Harold by Maureen Fergus

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The Day Santa Stopped Believing In Harold by Maureen Fergus

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Santa is getting ready for Christmas but stops believing in Harold, who is viewed as a magical part of Christmas. Santa tells his reindeer, who begin to look for proof. Paralleling Santa's story of disbelief is Harold's identical story of disbelief. Santa and Harold meet on Christmas, excited that both of them are, in fact, real!
This book could be utilized when teaching students about decoding. It features words that may be unfamiliar to students.
Preview the book as a class. Have students point out words they are unsure of how to pronounce, then compile a list of the most common. Make sure students keep an ear out for the words throughout the reading, even placing heavy emphasis on the word if needed to. After, review the words and see if students are able to pronounce them using the read aloud and decoding skills.

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The story is about a cookie who doesn't feel as smart as its peers. When its teacher assigns the class to do something creative, it is at a loss for what to do. After trying and failing, the cookie writes a poem. And it's really good! It realizes that everything is smart in its own way.
As this book is very word heavy, it would be great when teaching students about high-frequency words.
For the activity, I would create a list of sight words in the book. I would then review the list with my class, familiarizing students with the words and giving them definitions. When reading through the book, students would be told to raise their hand every time they hear a sight word. After reading, we would revisit each sight word as a class and examine how it fits in context to the story.

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10 Minutes Till Bedtime by Peggy Rathman

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10 Minutes Till Bedtime by Peggy Rathman

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"10 minutes till bedtime!" The boy's mother shouts, and the countdown begins. The boy gets ready for bedtime with the help of his hamster friends, all with his mom counting down the entire time.
This book would also be good for teaching print concepts. It has no words, so the teacher can prompt student predictions as the class goes through the book together. Students can also realize that words aren't necessary when telling a story.
For the activity, students can pick an activity they would do before bedtime. They can illustrate it and present to their classmates. Then the teacher can compile all the student's works and create their own class version of "10 Minutes Till Bedtime"

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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating

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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating

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This book is about Eugenie Clark and how she became a shark scientist. She visited an aquarium as a child and fell in love with sharks. She read books on them, one day deciding she wanted to work with them. People suggested she look into other fields of works, but Eugenie kept going. She continued her studies and began diving, even disproving the theory that sharks need to constantly move in one of her dives.
This would be a wonderful selection for teaching print concepts! The text is in different places on different pages, showing students that text is not always uniform.
I would pair this book with an activity that had students analyzing books with more informal text. This would familiarize them with text at various places on a page and would encourage them to follow the plot in terms of storytelling rather than just the words.

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Musa and Dada go to the beach in their daladala. On the way, they pass many people with various objects and Dada invites them into the car. Each time, Musa thinks there will be no room, but the people fit in! Once they reach their destination, everybody unloads and has fun on the beach.
I would use this book when teaching about rhyming. The rhymes in the book are repetitive and very original, which is good for students to hear out loud when learning about this concept.
For the activity, I would bring in a toy car that would resemble a daladala. I would have students think of two words and write them down. The students would then come up to place their words in the car, resembling the people Dada picked up. When they came up, they would have to think of two words that rhyme with their original two words before placing them in the car.