Top 11 Books To Read To Your Preschoolers – At Bed Time Or Story Time

Have you run out of good books to read to your preschoolers at bedtime? Are you tired of reading the same book to your child? Look no further because we’ve got you covered!

In this article, we’ve rounded up some of the top recommended books to read your preschoolers at bedtime. These books are all perfect for parents looking to bring more imagination and good values into their homes.

If your preschoolers are begging for something new, keep reading to learn the top books to read to preschoolers.

Top Books To Read To Your Preschoolers

Whether you’re at home or working at a preschool childcare centre, story time is crucial for children. During this time, children can sit quietly, relax, and listen to a story while their imaginations take them away.

Before they start reading themselves, reading books to your preschoolers helps them to expand their minds. And depending on the book, reading can also cultivate new ideas and help them learn new things. When they do begin to read, it will help them again, as they already know the story and can follow it easily, as they read.

1. The Little Blue Truck By Alice Schertle

The Little Blue Truck is all about a little blue pickup and his friends that are traveling the road and stopping to help a dump truck out of the mud. When the little blue truck gets stuck, it’s up to his friends to help him in a tale about friendship, working together, and helping others in need. There are other Little Blue Truck books too!

2. Animally By Linda Sutton Parrish

Animally is perfect for preschoolers that love animals. It features descriptive words and a rhythmic tone that is great for parents to read to their children at bedtime. This book cultivates love and affection, as well as a better vocabulary in young children.

3. Water Is Water By Miranda Paul

Exploring science in your preschool lesson plan? Water is Water easily explains the different phases of water, as well as all the forms water takes. This book encourages further scientific exploration and teaches children about the world of water at an early age.

4. The Wonderful Things You Will Be By Emily Winfield Martin

Another bedtime classic, The Wonderful Things You Will Be is a wonderful book that lets parents show their love and dreams for their children. This rhyming book really does fortify the eternal bond that parents and caregivers have with their children.

5. Around The World From A-Z By Christina Cheung

Around the World From A-Z brings the alphabet and the world together through association. This book features sandpaper letters for sensory development and fosters a strong memory. This is all done while learning about letters and different countries.

6. Here Is The Tropical Rainforest By Madeleine Dunphy

Part of a series of seven, Here Is The Tropical Rainforest is all about the Amazon Rainforest and the animals that live in it. It also introduces preschoolers to the delicate balance of the rainforest ecosystem, endangered species, and how they can protect the rainforest.

7. Lola At The Library By Anna McQuinn

A story-time favorite in any preschool lesson plan, Lola At The Library is all about a little girl named Lola and her love of the library. This story excites and prepares children for going to the library and encourages a love for the wonderful world of reading. There are other Lola Books to read to your preschoolers as well!

8. Planting A Rainbow By Lois Ehlert

A great lesson about love and a little bit of gardening, Planting A Rainbow is a fantastic book to read to preschoolers. This story follows a mom and daughter that plant all types of seeds and bulbs to create a vibrant garden full of colorful flowers.

9. Egg: Natures Perfect Package By Robin Page

Another great educational book, Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package shows children all about eggs, including what animals lay eggs, different eggs around the world, and how eggs can be an essential food source.

10. How We Make Stuff By Christiane Dorion

How We Make Stuff is made for all of the curious children who ask numerous questions about where things come from. This book is all about how we use the earth’s natural resources like cows, wood, and water. This book expands minds with knowledge about the world outside the door and answers many questions that they may have about the world.

11. The Robert Munsch Collection

Robert Munsch uses his entertaining storybooks to help children learn real life lessons on moral values and responsibility. There of plenty of books to choose from for children of all ages.

What To Look For In Books To Read To Your Preschoolers:

Montessori preschools generally steer away from books that offer the child intense fantasized ideas e.g. Super Heros. Children under 6 years are at a very sensitive age and as such have not completely developed the discernment of what is based in reality or fantasy.

Montessori programs, preschools, childcare centres, daycares encourage more curiosity about the real world and the things in it. This isn’t to say that imagination isn’t used, but it’s used in a more productive way to help a child develop skills and exercise certain parts of their brains. This offers the child a connection to his world as well offers him opportunities to create using imagination from the ideas he sees in his real world.

In addition to other fun books, when you’re looking for books to read to your preschoolers, it would be of great advantage to read books that feature real animals or real experiences. Also, it’s good to look for educational books and books with sensory features like touchable pictures and things like that. Audio books can be very captivating for children to listen too.

Want To Learn More About Montessori Childcare Programs? Contact Us

Are you a parent looking to enroll your child in a Montessori childcare program? Are you interested in enriching your child’s development with the help of professionals in Montessori learning?

At the Montessori Learning Centre, we focus on individualized lesson plans for our preschoolers. These lesson plans foster holistic development i.e. meet the child’s needs in all areas and aspects of their development and learning. Through observation and creating specified preschool lesson plans, we help children grow into happy, healthy, intelligent individuals. Our lesson plans in reading begin with phonetic sounds and this has proved to be a very effective and child friendly way of introducing reading to children. Children are attracted to the phonetic sounds which form words as we speak to them. The Montessori reading curriculum also helps the child break down and build words very easily later translating into strong skills in spelling words.

Reading doesn’t have to come with tears. This is a lifelong skill which the child can achieve easily with a simple and consistent method of teaching. Our educators are well trained in ensuring every child enjoys the process of learning as well as develops a love for reading. Expertise and patience is key! And our educators bring this to the classroom with their warm disposition towards every child. By the age of 5 years children at Montessori Learning Centre reach high levels of reading including reading sentences and big words..

If you’re interested in getting your child into a program that will focus on their individual needs, contact us today. We can’t wait to hear from you and to tell you all about how we can help your child grow and learn!

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