Classroom Library

Here are some of the books I bought for my ESL classroom. What are your preschool/ESL library favorites?

I find board books a little bit difficult to use with 1 and 2 year olds because they basically just want to hold them and flip through the pages themselves--screw the reading! So I mostly use books with preschool students. My students love Good Night, Gorilla and it is nice that it doesn't have a lot of words but my students can identify the animals and describe what is going on. I also love The Greedy Python, but I think some of the words are difficult for beginner readers.

Reading books is a great way to get my students to wind down and keep them engaged. I'd love to get more Eric Carle books and books that teach song lyrics, like The Farmer in the Dell.

I also love following thekaledoscopeca on instagram--such interesting book recommendations that I hope to collect for my children someday!