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Children's Books for Teaching Language Arts 


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Teaching language arts with children's books is a recipe for educational success!  Most teachers have a wide range of language arts resources
in their classrooms, but many forget that their own classroom library is
perhaps one of the most powerful language arts resources of all.
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Using children's books in language arts education will (1) provide 'real world' examples of the language arts topic being taught, (2) add a reading component to your lessons, (3) create a cross-curricular lesson maximizing teaching time in an already over- crowded school day, (4) help to differentiate your lesson for different learning styles in your classroom, and lastly (5) they're fun! Teaching language arts with children's books really gets 'um engaged!

The books listed below are great for teaching language arts for children in K-8th grade. And, considering the
central role of language arts education in the overall education system, we are always adding more children's language arts books these lists. Check back often!



Book Lists Organized by Language Arts Topics

It's Easy: (1) Select the desired topic from the lists below. (2) Click the link. (3) See the best books!

Alphabet Books
Books on Parts of Speech
the Alphabet the Parts of Speech

- Alphabet/ ABC books
  (We have EIGHT pages of the best alphabet books,
    and they're not only for little kids! Take a look.)


- for teaching nouns & pronouns
- for teaching verbs & adverbs
- for teaching adjectives
- for prepositions & conjunctions
Phonics books
Books on Semantics and Figurative Language
Phonemic Awareness & Phonics Semantics & Figurative Language

- for teaching word families
- for teaching long & short vowels
- for teaching contractions/possessive
- for teaching compound words
- for teaching other phonics topics
  (like blends and diagraphs, silent letters, etc)

- for teaching synonyms and antonyms
- for teaching homonyms and homophones
- for teaching similes and metaphors
- for teaching idioms
- for teaching onomatopoeia

Books about Punctuation Books on Poetry
Other Language Arts Topics Poetry

- books for teaching punctuation
Six Traits of Writing: Voice 
- Six Traits of Writing: Word Choice (coming!)
- Reading Motivation (coming!)

This is our next major category for this section. Soon we'll have book lists for:
- different types of poetry (haiku, sonnet...)
- books with examples of different elements



Books from Different Genres

  Genres and Writing Modes
Autobiographies & Biographies:
- biographies for K- Gr.4
- biographies for Gr. 5-8

Fables, Folk Tales, & Legends
- fables
- folk tales
legends and myths

Fairy Tales:
- traditional fairy tales
- fractured fairy tales
- cultural/world fairy tales

Fantasy (many more to come)
fantasy books
Historical Fiction
- historical fiction (US)
- historical fiction (world)

Mysteries
- best mysteries for K-Gr.4
- best mystries for Gr. 5-8

Science Fiction
- science fiction

Examples of writing modes:
- letter writing examples
- journaling examples

*greyed out lists are currently unavailable


Teaching language arts is a central activity in every teacher's day, so we hope these lists will be a help you create engaging and effective language arts education in your classroom. And homeschoolers, we'd love to hear which language arts books you have integrated into your homeschool language arts curriculum. Please let us know if you have recommendations.



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