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ELSIE: Early Literacy Storytime Ideas Exchange
Find books that help children develop the skills needed for learning success. Tips for sharing emphasizes these skills in a fun, interactive story sharing. Search ELSIE by keyword and/or by Six Skills. Newest titles appear first. Keyword search example: autumn
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Fox, Mem Two Little Monkeys A rhyming tale about two little monkeys who are hiding from a leopard. Easy Picture Book added May 15, 2012 Skills featured: Print Motivation Tips for sharing: This is a cute, rhythmic story about two mischievous monkeys and one a-little-bit-scary leopard. With lots of repetitive phrases, it should be an easy book for children to learn and enjoy re...read more |
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Davey, Owen Night Knight Transform bedtime with this knightly adventure. Easy Picture Book added May 11, 2012 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Phonological Sensitivity Tips for sharing: A Knight at night needs to go to bed just like everyone else. This creative book plays with words and enhances imagination. Readers will be taken to the world of knights and castles. Encourage ch...read more |
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Springman, I. C. More A team of well-intentioned mice saves a friend from hoarding too much stuff. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list:  New Picture Booksadded Apr 24, 2012 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Tips for sharing: What happens to all those lost marbles and bits of ribbon? The magpie wants to collect all the different objects and it makes a more cheerful nest. But the magpie is so enthused he keeps adding and ad...read more |
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Jeffers, Oliver Stuck When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: Classroom Read Aloud - picture booksadded Apr 13, 2012 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Tips for sharing: Floyd’s kite is stuck in a tree, testing his problem solving skills and causing all out calamity! How would you get a kite out of a tree? Oh, you wouldn’t throw a cat, chair, and gorilla u...read more |
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Yoo, Taeeun You are a Lion! : and other Fun Yoga Poses Children pretend to be many different animals as they do various yoga poses. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: New Picture Booksadded Apr 3, 2012 Skills featured: Print Motivation Tips for sharing: Perfect for introducing yoga into storytime, or just for settling your child down before bed, this book teaches children animal yoga poses through bright illustrations and a simple, non-rhyming verse,...read more |
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Sauer, Tammi. Me Want Pet! When Cave Boy wants a pet, he tries a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, and a dodo bird, but none seems suitable. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: New Picture Booksadded Mar 30, 2012 Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary |
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Kraus, Robert Whose Mouse are You? A lonely little mouse has to be resourceful in order to bring his family back together. Easy Picture Book added Mar 26, 2012 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Tips for sharing: In this classic, the reader asks a sad little mouse a series of questions to discover why he is all alone. This unique storytelling style will engage young listeners as they learn what ...read more |
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McGinness, Suzanne My Bear Griz Billy has a bear called Griz. A Grizzly Bear. And the two friends have all kinds of wonderful adventures together. They go exploring, they play hide and seek, they eat peanut butter and honey sandwiches, share secrets and tell jokes. They even go out at night to do some star-gazing - and their favourite constellation is the Great Bear of course. Griz is the best friend a boy could possibly have. And is he a real Grizzly Bear or a teddy bear? Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: Favorites for Preschoolersadded Feb 25, 2012 Skills featured: Print Awareness, Letter Knowledge Tips for sharing: Billy is learning about things to do with a friend, his best friend, the bear Griz. This is a bit bigger-than-average pictur...read more |
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Wolff, Ashley. Baby Bear Sees Blue Leaving the den as the weather warms, Baby Bear discovers blue birds, red strawberries, orange butterflies, and other colorful things in nature. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: Favorites for Preschoolers Concepts: Colors and more New Picture Books Letter Sounds: Badded Feb 21, 2012 Skills featured: Print Motivation, Vocabulary Tips for sharing: This is a sweet and simple concept story about a bear and his mama. Baby bear explores his habitat, asking his mother appropriate toddler-like questions, such as “Who is singing to me, Mam...read more |
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Gershator, Phillis Time for a Hug A little rabbit receives hugs around the clock. Easy Picture Book added Feb 17, 2012 Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Motivation Tips for sharing: What time is it? Time for a hug! Mama and Little Rabbit do many fun things together throughout the day, but always make time for hugging each other. What can be better than that? As ...read more |
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Meltzer, Lynn The Construction Crew A construction crew tears down an old building and builds a new house in its place. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: Favorites for Preschoolers Word Playadded Feb 4, 2012 Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Vocabulary Tips for sharing: The construction crew gets right to work and we see them busy at their tasks. We build our vocabulary as we learn the names of the machines. Short, rhythmic rhyming moves the action and helps us devel...read more |
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Slate, Jenny, 1982- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On : Things About Me Follows Marcel the Shell as he introduces his neighbors, favorite activities, and home. Easy Picture Book added Feb 3, 2012 Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Tips for sharing: From the oft-viewed YouTube videos, comes Marcel the Shell: Book Star! Silly but endearing, Marcel takes readers on a tour of his apartment home, stopping to point out neighbors, ...read more |
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Shaskan, Stephen A Dog is a Dog Using various animals as examples, this rhyming picture book explores what makes them the same and what makes them different. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: Word Playadded Jan 10, 2012 Skills featured: Print Awareness, Print Motivation Tips for sharing: Simple rhymes and playful illustrations work together to create a fun story of a dog who is in the habit of changing his identity. Some pages offer up a bold-print, one-word spread—perfect for d...read more |
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Martin, Bill Kitty Cat Kitty Cat are You Going to Sleep? A young cat is distracted by many things while getting ready for bed at night. Easy Picture Book added Jan 3, 2012 Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity Tips for sharing: It can be hard for a kitten to get ready for bed when there is so much fun to be had! Kitty Cat's bedtime routine will be familiar for many children and their parents, so be sure to talk abou...read more |
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Page, Gail How to be a Good Cat Cat helps Bobo the dog take care of Mr. Hiccup's naughty new kitten. Easy Picture Book added Dec 31, 2011 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Motivation Tips for sharing: Cats and dogs are different. Duh. This may seem obvious, but not for Bobo the dog. Bobo is a good dog, so good that he offers to train a naughty little kitten and his lessons of sit, stay, and fetch a...read more |
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Balouch, Kristen. The Little Little Girl with the Big Big Voice A little girl with a very loud voice has trouble finding a jungle friend to play with, until at last, she meets the one jungle animal whose roar is louder than hers! Easy Picture Book added Dec 20, 2011 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Print Awareness Tips for sharing: The little little girl would love a friend to play with, but all the jungle animals seem hesitant. What's a girl to do? Kristen Balouch's book is filled with sunny colors and surprisingly vivi...read more |
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Van Lieshout, Maria Tumble! : a Little Book About Having it All When three little bears find a red toy to play with and Tumble claims it for his own, this proves to be not such a good idea. Easy Picture Book added Dec 9, 2011 Skills featured: Phonological Sensitivity, Print Awareness Tips for sharing: It's a small book with few words, but a great deal to say. The story tells of Tumble and his two best friends as they enjoy the wonders of snow, from playi...read more |
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Meschenmoser, Sebastian Waiting for Winter Deer has told Squirrel how wonderful snow is. But Squirrel gets bored with the wait. With his friend Hedgehog they pass the time by singing and waking Bear. Soon things are falling from the sky, but they aren't snow. But eventually they find what snow is. Easy Picture Book added Dec 9, 2011 Skills featured: Narrative Skills, Vocabulary Tips for sharing: Winter is wonderful, but it only starts after it snows. Squirrel and Hedgehog have never seen snow. So, they wait. Waiting for snow is hard, especially when you don’t know what to look for. Squi...read more |
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Jenkins, Emily, 1967- Small Medium Large : a Book About Relative Sizes Discover the world of relative sizes, classification and measurement--a stepping stone to learning early math skills. Easy Nonfiction Book Appears on the following book list: added Nov 26, 2011 Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Tips for sharing: When we think of early learning skills, we often think of counting and learning the names of numbers. But what words do we use to describe what we’re learning about size? How many ways can you s...read more |
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Intriago, Patricia Dot Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day. Easy Picture Book Appears on the following book list: Letter Sounds: D Concepts: Colors and moreadded Nov 18, 2011 Skills featured: Print Awareness, Vocabulary Tips for sharing: Dot is a simple, but witty, concept book. The clever illustrations portray the dot in opposites, such as slow and fast, and hungry and full, which is perfect for strengthening vocabulary skil...read more |
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