All You Need for a Beach by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Barbara Lavallee

This story reads like a recipe for creating a beach. The text lists all the necessary ingredients in a rhyming tone which supports phonological awareness, one of the six pre-reading skills in the Every Child Ready to Read initiative. This book is also an excellent resource for print awareness as it features text of varying sizes and colors. Vocabulary is another key element of this picture book as its premise is centered on naming things.

This book would work very well in storytime!

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Schertle, A. (2004). All you need for a beach. Orlando, FL: Silver Whistle/Harcourt.