This initiative is made possible with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education using federal funding, CFDA 84.027A, Special Education- Grants to States.
Individual Education Plans
Resources on Early Literacy
An Overview of Learning to Read
Critical Issue: Addressing the Literacy Needs of Emergent and Early Readers
Center for Early Education and Development
Parents’ Role in Supporting the Literacy Development of Students with Autism
Literacy Games and Products
Between the Lions: Stuff You’ll Want to Know
Recommended Books on Literacy for Parents
Talkability by Fern Sussman
Learn to Move, Move to Learn by Jenny Clark Brack
The Big Book of Exclamations by Teri K. Peterson
How Do I Teach This Kid To Read? By Kimberly A. Henry
Drawing a Blank: Improving Comprehension for Readers on the Autism Spectrum by Emily Iland
Recommended Reading for Young Children
Read Aloud Favorites
Anno’s Counting House by Misumasa Anno
Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Books about Feelings and Behaviors
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
The Way I Feel by Jane Cain
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
When Sophie Gets Angry, Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Poetry, Nursery Rhymes and Other Rhyming Books
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone
Over in the Meadow by Paul Galdone
Sing a Song of Popcorn by Beatrice Schenk de Regmiers, Eva Moore,
Mary Michaels White, and Jan Carr
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Siverstein
Predictable Text
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Colin and Jacqui Hawkins
Is Your Mama a Llama? By Deborah Guarino
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
