The ability to describe things and events and tell stories.
Here’s a great list of books available at our library to help develop early readers’ narrative skills:
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
Birds by Kevin Henkes
Early Morning in the Barn by Nancy Tafuri
First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Knuffle Bunny A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk
Museum Trip by Barbara Lehman
Next Stop! by Sarah Ellis
Picturescape by Elisa Gutiérrez
Tell Me Again about the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Time Flies by Eric Rohmann
Trainstop by Barbara Lehman
Tuesday by David Wiesner
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Fairy Tales by M.A.Hoberman