Reading is not only a way to improve your English, but also a journey full of adventure and discovery.
Through stories, they learn to solve problems, understand emotions, and gain valuable life lessons.
These critical thinking, empathy and curiosity are all important qualities for their future success.
Principles of book selection
Interest-based: Choose topics and stories that interest children to maintain their enthusiasm for reading.
Language difficulty: Choose appropriate books based on the child’s age group and English level. The books should not be too difficult or too easy.
Diversity: Involving different types of books, such as story books, picture books, adventure novels, etc., to enrich children's reading experience.
Encourage independent choice: Let children choose their favorite books by themselves to cultivate their reading habits and independent learning ability.
Suitable for 3-5 years old
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" -- Eric Carle
This book tells the growth story of a little caterpillar, from hatching from the shell, constantly eating various foods, and finally turning into a beautiful butterfly.
This book contains fruit , number vocabulary , and everyday verbs . The use of basic present tense and repeated sentence structures , along with colorful illustrations, conveys the concepts of growth and change as children learn to count, recognize fruits, and the days of the week.
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See" -- Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
A new animal appears on each page of the book, and they greet each other and describe the next animal they see.
This book contains vocabulary for colors and animals . It uses simple present tense and question-and-answer sentences to emphasize the collocation of nouns and verbs . Through the repeated use of vocabulary and sentence patterns, children's vocabulary memory is strengthened , and basic grammatical structures are practiced through repeated question-and-answer sentences.
"Goodnight Moon" -- Marfaret Wise Brown
This is a sweet bedtime poem about a little bunny saying goodnight to all the objects in his room before going to sleep.
This book contains household and daily object vocabulary , uses the present tense , and creates a quiet and peaceful atmosphere for children through short and simple descriptive sentences , cultivating their observation and description skills.
Suitable for 6-8 years old
"Green Eggs and Ham" -- Dr. Seuss
The book, with its unique sense of rhyme and rhythm, follows Sam as he tries to convince another character to try a strange-looking green egg and ham.
This book contains food vocabulary and place vocabulary . Negative sentences and interrogative sentences are frequently used throughout the book. Rhymes and repeated sentence patterns are used to enhance children's sense of language rhythm . Interesting stories are also used to teach them the importance of having the courage to try new things.
"Magic Tree House" -- Mary Pope Osborne
This book tells the story of the adventure of brother and sister Jack and Annie traveling through time and space through a magical tree house. They go to different times and places, experience various adventures, solve puzzles, and learn about history and nature.
The vocabulary in this book involves natural science and history . The whole text uses present tense and past tense . Through simple descriptive sentences and dialogue sentences, children can not only enjoy the wonderful stories and learn new vocabulary while reading, but also cultivate interest in natural science.
"Frog and Toad Are Friends" -- Arnold Lobel
This book contains five short stories about the friendship between Frog and Toad. Each story shows how they support and help each other in their daily lives.
This book contains daily life vocabulary . The sentence patterns throughout the text are complex sentences and dialogue forms, and the past tense is used, so that children can be exposed to more sentence patterns and grammatical structures, and enhance their reading comprehension and language expression skills.
Suitable for 9-11 years old
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" -- Jeff Kinney
This book records the daily life and school experience of the protagonist Greg Heffley in the form of a diary. His diary records his interactions with his family, friends, and classmates, as well as his various "unlucky" events in school and life.
This book has a large number of daily life and school life vocabulary , and makes extensive use of present tense , past tense , dialogue and first-person narration . Short sentences and colloquial expressions, humorous and realistic storylines enable children to understand and use daily spoken expressions, and enhance the practicality and fluency of language.
"Matilda" -- Roald Dahl
The protagonist of this book is a smart little girl named Matilda, who has extraordinary wisdom and superpowers, but lives in a family that does not understand her. Matilda uses her wisdom and courage to fight against the evil principal and ruthless family, and finally finds the people who truly care about her.
This book contains words that describe the characters' personalities and behaviors , using a large number of adjectives and adverbs as well as a rich variety of verb tenses . The complex sentence structure and rich descriptive language contribute to the improvement of children's reading comprehension ability.
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" -- JK Rowling
This is the first book in the Harry Potter series, telling the story of an orphan Harry Potter who discovers that he is a wizard and enters Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The story is full of magic, friendship and courage, and is a classic about growth and self-discovery.
This book has rich dialogue and narrative sentences, diverse sentence structures, frequent use of past and present tenses, and abundant adjectives and adverbs, which expand children's vocabulary and make them familiar with complex sentence structures.
Suitable for 12-13 years old
"Percy Jacson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" -- Rick Riordan
This book tells the story of an ordinary boy named Percy Jackson who discovers that he is actually the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea in Greek mythology. In an accident, Percy is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning, and he must find the real thief and prove his innocence.
This book contains a variety of sentence patterns and dialogue sentence patterns . The past tense, present tense and future tense are used. Through this book, children can understand and learn a variety of tenses and complex sentence patterns, and improve their language expression skills.
"Anne of Green Gables" -- LM Montgomery
The protagonist of this book is an orphan girl named Anne, who was mistakenly sent to a family that needed a boy to help with farm work, but she won everyone's love with her intelligence, imagination and kindness. This book teaches children to face life optimistically and cherish every opportunity.
This book contains a large number of words that describe natural landscapes and characters . The whole text uses past and present tenses , and uses rich descriptive sentences and dialogue sentences to improve children's reading comprehension and writing skills .
"Wonder" -- RJ Palacio
This book tells the story of August Pullman, a little boy with facial deformity, who faces various challenges and prejudices when he first enters a regular school. Through the perspective of Auggie and the people around him, the story shows the importance of kindness, courage and tolerance, and encourages children to accept and respect everyone.
This book contains a large number of words that describe emotions and social relationships . It uses diversified sentence patterns , first-person narrative sentences, and emotional descriptions in the past, present, and future tenses of verbs to help children recognize and learn more complex sentence patterns, and improve their language expression and writing skills .
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