Lit Kit

The Lit Kit is “a box packed with love and bite sized ideas for joyful reading.” It includes a magazine to educate adults and books, games, and other materials to engage children. The magazine invites adults to engage in this routine:

Word Play
Child Reading
Adult Reading

The kits were created by Calgary Reads and funded by the Calgary Foundation, the Rotary Club of Calgary and the Herbert and Maren Mueller Foundation.

Build your own Lit Kit

If you don’t have a Lit Kit, you can build your own! Here are some supplies we recommend for it.

Books

Your Lit Kit can include any excellent picture books. Here are the ones included in our Lit Kits.

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
We Are In A Book by Mo Willems
I Don’t Want to Read This Book by Max Greenfield, illustrated by Mike Lowery
My Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
Who Would Win: Hornet vs. Wasp? By Jerry Pallotta, illustrated by Rob Bolster

Dice

Regular dice
Alphabet dice: A 26-sided dice with all the letters of the alphabet that you can use in games.
Question Dice – who, what, where, when, why, how
Vowel dice

Supplies

Magnetic Whiteboard
Whiteboard eraser
Dry erase markers
Scissors
Ziploc bag
Pencil sharpener
Mirror
Coloured bingo chips
Magnetic letters
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) pin
Index cards
Paper sentence strips
Orange brain – stress ball

Games

Bingo Blast
Rolling Endings
Don’t Cross Me
Don’t Double Cross Me
Rolling Endings
Elkonin sound boxes
Onset-Rime and Making Words
Alpha Scramblers and other dice games
2Fun4words Games – picture cards are used for playing phonemic awareness games.
Question Game – A series of fun get to know you questions like “Describe the ultimate ice cream sundae.”
Story cubes
Red Word Maker, cards and letter tiles