Texas 2 X 2 Reading List Age 2 to Grade 2

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1 Texas 2 X 2 Reading List Age 2 to Grade 2 Texas Library Association sponsors the 2X2 Reading List solely to encourage free voluntary reading Parent and Child Sharing Time Activities Alborough, Jez. Nat the Cat s Sunny Smile. Ages: 3-6. Watch Jez Alborough read his story on YouTube and try to create a picture like Mr. Alborough s drawings for this book. Discuss feelings and how they can change. How did Nat s pats help Hugo and Billy shake their blue mood? Make a list of things people can do to help bring a smile to the face of others. Think of someone that could use cheering up and do one of the activities on the list for that person. Apps: Tom Cat for Apple and Android - Free Barnett, Mac. Count the Monkeys. Ages 3-6. Invite your child to follow the directions of the narrator as you read the story aloud. Help you child count the animals or characters on each page, including the monkeys on the last pages. Have your child draw a picture of his/her favorite part of the story. - Author Mac Barnett s website Author Mac Barnett reads Count the Monkeys aloud Apps: Counting 123 Learn to count challenge for kids - Free Toddler Counting Free Blechman, Nicholas. Night Light. Ages: 3-5. Count the circles you see on the black pages and try to guess the vehicles. What do the circles become after you turn to the illustrated pages? Look for and point out the lights on various vehicles. Are they all circular? - Author site - Circle shape recognition

2 Apps: Kids Vehicles: City Trucks & Buses HD Lite for the ipad -Free (dump truck, school bus, ambulance) Vehicles Puzzlers for Toddlers Free for Androids Boudreau, Helene. I Dare You Not to Yawn. Ages: 4-8. Read Pierre, a Cautionary Tale by Maurice Sendak, and talk about how the stories are alike and how they are different. Make a list of actions and their effects from the story. Think of other actions and their possible consequences. Try NOT to yawn while reading the story. Website: Apps: Toddler Bedtime Helper for Android and Slumber Tot for Apple products- Free before upgrades Eaton, Jason Carter. How to Train a Train. Ages: 4-8. How does the boy catch a train to be his pet? What does the boy do with the train after he catches it? Do you have a pet? If so, have you tried training your pet? If not, what kinds of things could you imagine as your pet? - Book Trailer - Read about pets Apps: Chuggington Traintastic Adventures - Free for Apple products Train World Builder - Free for Apple products Heder, Thyra. Fraidyzoo. Ages: 4-8. Most people are afraid of something. Little T is afraid to visit the zoo, but she can t remember which animal she is afraid of. What are you afraid of? Discuss what your family can do to make you less afraid. Little T and her family create an entire zoo out of supplies they have at home. What real and imaginary animals can you make using materials from your recycle bins? If you can t go to your local zoo right now, you can visit the Smithsonian National Zoological Park s AnimalCams at to see pandas, naked mole rats and other animals. Directions for making a zebra hat; Pattern for making a zebra hat

3 Kimmel, Eric A. Little Red Hot. Ages 4-8. Read the traditional version of Little Red Riding Hood and compare it to this southwestern version. Pecos Bill is a character in this story. Read a legend about Pecos Bill to learn more about him. Read some of Eric Kimmel's other southwestern tales: Jack and the Giant Barbecue, The Three Little Tamales, The Great Texas Hamster Drive, Cactus Soup. You can hear author Eric Kimmel read some of these stories aloud by visiting discuss any similarities that you discover. - Author Eric A. Kimmel s website Apps: Little Red Riding Hood a free interactive children s storybook Free Little Red Riding Hood Lite by Read & Record - Free Leathers, Philippa. Black Rabbit. Ages: 3-6. Go outside on a sunny day to watch shadows. Play with shadows by pointing out how the shadows seem to mimic actions. Discuss what made rabbit afraid of the black rabbit. Why couldn t he get rid of the black rabbit? How did the black rabbit help in the end? Why isn t rabbit afraid anymore?. Apps: Find Rabbit for Android and Stack Rabbit for Apple and Android -Free Lee, Mark. 20 Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street. Ages: 3-7. As you read the story, have your child point out the various--us trucks. Count the trucks on each page. Make a list of all the types of trucks in the story. As you travel around town with your child, keep track of how many of these trucks you see. Have your child draw his/her favorite truck from the story or build a truck out of blocks. Draw a map with sidewalk chalk and let your child drive a toy truck through the city. Website: - Illustrator Kurt Cyrus website Apps: Trucks Flashcards Free Things that Go Preschool Free Kids Car, Trucks, & Construction Vehicles Puzzles for Toddlers Free Kids Trucks: Preschool Learning - Free Matheson, Christie. Tap the Magic Tree. Ages 2-7. Encourage your child to touch, tap and rub the pages as you read. What happens to the tree when your child does the actions? Talk about the different seasons with your child. Look for the colored pages in the book. What do those pages signify?

4 - Book Trailer Apps: Tizzy Seasons Lite for Kids-Free for Androids on changing seasons Seasons and Weather! Free science educational games Mortensen, Denise Dowling. Bug Patrol. Ages 4-8. List the problems each of the bugs is having. Discuss and/or draw a picture showing how good manners could have helped the bugs avoid and/or solve their problems. What did Captain Bob do to help? Have a pretend tea party and practice good manners by saying, Please, no, thank you, and thank you. Think of other scenarios where manners can be practiced such as sharing, inviting people to do things, declining an invitation, holding open a door for others, etc. Talk about how movie trailers are used to interest people in watching movies. Discuss how book trailers can be used to get people to read books. Apps: Backyard Bugs by Lamplighter Games from itunes and Bug Village by CLU Mobile for Android. Murray, Allison. Little Mouse. Ages: 2-5. Mice are little and quiet, while lions are brave and scary. Pretend you are each animal in Little Mouse. How do they act and sound? Do you ever act like these animals during your day? As the little girl is getting ready for bed, she is happy to be her mommy s little mouse. What do you do to get ready for bed? Is it the same every night, or does it change? Pretend you re getting ready for bed right now, and act out what you do. Look at a nonfiction animal book. What words describe each animal? Can you also describe how each animal moves? Now show how that animal moves. What noise does it make? Can you make the animal s noise? Apps: The Lion and the Mouse Free for Androids Lion and Mouse Interactive Storybook Free for ipads Pizzoli, Greg. The Watermelon Seed. Ages: 2-5. Crocodile loves watermelon! What foods do you love, and why? Why was Crocodile afraid when he swallowed a watermelon seed? Eat a piece of watermelon. Count the number of seeds in your piece of watermelon. Draw a slice of watermelon. Using real watermelon seeds, glue them onto your drawing. The Watermelon Seed won the 2014 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. Discuss this award and check out other books that have won.

5 - Author website -Geisel Award - National Watermelon Promotion Board Rocco, John. Super Hair-O and the Barber of Doom. Ages: 4-8. After reading the story and discussing the comic book format, share other comic books and superhero stories with your child. Have your child create their own comic strip using this website Ask your child what superpower he/she would like to have. What would his/her superhero name be? What would his/her superhero costume look like? - View a book trailer for Super Hair-O - Author/illustrator John Rocco s website - Create your own comic strip Apps: Superhero Coloring Book Free Story Me collage, comic strip, and cartoon maker for photos - Free Sauer, Tammi. Nugget & Fang: Friends Forever or Snack Time? Ages: 4-8. Visit an aquarium and view sharks and a variety of fish. Nugget & Fang are very different, but they are still good friends. Talk to your child about the importance of accepting others who might be different. Help your child research the various types of sharks. Have your child draw or paint a picture of the characters or other sea life they enjoy. - Official website for Nugget & Fang (includes a book trailer) - Texas State Aquarium s official website Global shark tracker Apps: Sea Animals Puzzle Lite Free Shark Game Free Kindergarten Games Aquarium Fish and Sea Animals for Kids - Free Shannon, George. Turkey Tot. Ages: 4-7. What are some of Turkey Tot s ideas for reaching the blackberries? How does Turkey Tot finally reach the blackberries? What does Hen always say about Turkey Tot, and why? Find books about real turkeys and read about where they live, what they eat and how they sound.

6 -Wild Turkey facts from National Geographic - Listen to author Jim Arnosky sing a turkey song: - create an animal farm Slonim, David. Patch. Ages: 3-8. List the ways the boy shows his love for his dog. Talk about cause and effect. What is the effect when Patch chases rabbits? What is the cause for Patch having prickles in his fur? Talk about stage fright. Why didn t Patch do any tricks at the contest? Look up information about fleas. Talk about why fleas aren t good for dogs or people. Sing B-I-N-G-O and other fun dog songs, such as How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? Website: Apps: Puppy Dog Sitter by TabTale for Apple Talking Pooch the Dog for Kids by Ozitech Apps for Android. Thong, Roseanne Greenfield. Round Is a Tortilla. Ages: 2-5. Play I Spy with shapes instead of colors or letters. Using kitchen scissors cut tortillas into smaller shapes. Create pictures with the pieces before you eat them. Carve shape stamps from potatoes or foam. Print shape pictures and use an English/Spanish dictionary or an online translation program to label your picture in both English and Spanish. Website: -Kids a Cookin with Homemade Tortillas Apps: Toddler Puzzle Shapes- Free for Apple Vestergaard, Hope. Digger Dozer Dumper. Ages: 3-8. Create a notebook of pictures of construction machines cut from magazines or printed off the internet. Carry it in your car, and as you travel, keep a tally of each vehicle you see. Which vehicles did you see the most often? Which ones do you rarely see? Create your own video explaining how a specific vehicle works. Ask an adult or older sibling to record you while you use your toy trucks as models to show how a real truck operates. This might be a good activity for the backyard or sandbox. If there isn t any construction going on around your home, there are many videos on the internet showing construction vehicles at work. Here s an example of one:

7 Website: - online digger games Young, Jessica. My Blue Is Happy. Ages: 4-8. In the book My Blue is Happy, characters explain what colors mean to them. What do different colors mean to you? Make your own color book with illustrations describing your colors meanings. You might want to use the text pattern ( My is like ) from My Blue is Happy for your book. The illustrations in My Blue is Happy are mostly monochromatic, which means they have only one color. Create your own piece of art using only one color. -A teacher s guide created by Jessica Young for My Blue is Happy - Activity sheets created by Jessica Young for My Blue is Happy.