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| Read Me a Story... Please! |
Read-Alouds for Kindergartners
Picture Books
| Author | Title |
| Allard | Miss Nelson is Missing! |
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Arnold |
No Jumping on the Bed! |
| Barrett | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| Cannon | Stellaluna |
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Carrick |
What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs? |
| Cronin | Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type |
| Day | Frank and Ernest |
| DePaola | Strega Nona: an Old Tale |
| Gerstein | The Gigantic Baby |
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Engel |
Josephina Hates Her Name |
| Henkes | Chrysanthemum |
| Kellogg | Johnny Appleseed: a Tall Tale |
| Imai | Little Lumpty |
| Mahey | The Three-Legged Cat |
| McCloskey | Blueberries for Sal |
| Marshall | The Cut-Ups |
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Nobel |
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash |
| Peet | Big Bad Bruce |
| Pfister | The Rainbow Fish |
| Rylant | The Relatives Came |
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Schwartz |
Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner |
| Steig | Doctor DeSoto |
| Waber | Ira Says Goodbye |
| Williams | A Chair for My Mother |
| J398.2B | Turtle Knows Your Name |
Read-Alouds for 1st & 2nd graders
Picture Books
| Author | Title |
| Hest | The Purple Coat |
| Melmed | The Rainbabies |
| McKissack | Mirandy and Brother Wind |
| Scieszka | The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! |
| Van Allsburg | Jumanji |
| Wood | Heckedy Peg |
| Yorinks | Company's Coming |
| J398.2G | Village of Round and Square Houses |
| J398.2 Y | Lon Po Po |
| J629.13 B | Flight |
| J796.357G | Teammates |
Chapter Books
| Author | Title |
| Atwater | Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| Bulla | The Chalk Box Kid |
| Butterworth | The Enormous Egg |
| Cleary | Ramona the Pest |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | |
| Dahl | James and the Giant Peach |
| Dalglieshr | The Courage of Sarah Noble |
| Eage | Half Magic |
| Gannett | My Father's Dragon |
| MacDonald | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle |
| MacLachlan | Sarah Plain and Tall |
Read-Alouds for 3rd & 4th graders
Picture Books
| Author | Title |
| Flournoy | The Patchwork Quilt |
| Khalsa | Tales of a Gambling Grandma |
| Polacco | The Bee Tree |
| J398.2 D | The Dancing Skeleton |
| J398.2 H | Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady |
| J398.2 H | Saint George and the Dragon |
| J398.2 S | The Talking Eggs |
| J398.2 S | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters |
Chapter Books
| Author | Title |
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Base |
The Eleventh Hour |
| Brittain | The Wish Giver |
| Catling | The Chocolate Touch |
| Cohen | Thank You, Jackie Robinson |
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Fitzgerald |
The Great Brain |
| Fleischman | The Whipping Boy |
| Gardiner | Stone Fox |
| King-Smith | Babe: The Gallant Pig |
| Nesbit | Melisande |
| Norton | The Borrowers Peck Soup |
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Reid-Banks |
The Indian in the Cupboard |
| Sachar | Wayside School is Falling Down |
| Selden | Cricket in Times Square |
Read-Alouds for 5th and 6th graders
Chapter Books
| Author | Title |
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Aiken |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
| Alexander | The Book of Three |
| Avi | The Barn |
| Babbitt | Tuck Everlasting |
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Bauer |
On My Honor |
| Bellairs | The Curse of the Blue Figurine |
| Brink | Caddie Woodlawn |
| Christopher | The White Mountains |
| Collier | Jump Ship to Freedom |
| Feiffer | The Man in the Ceiling |
| George | My Side of the Mountain |
| Jacques | Redwall |
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Lowry |
The Giver |
| O'Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
| Orlev | The Island on Bird Street |
| Paulsen | Hatchet |
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Roberts |
The Girl with the Silver Eyes |
| Schur | The Circlemaker |
| Seabrooke | The Haunting of Holroyd Hill |
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Snyder |
The Egypt Game |
| Taylor | Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry |
| Watkins | So Far From the Bamboo Grove |
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Wisler |
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer |
| Yep | Dragon's Gate |
| J292.13R | Classic Myths to Read Aloud |
Compiled by Nancy Woodward
Wooster School
John D. Verdery Library
Danbury, CT
Why read aloud to Children?
Answered simply, the initial reasons are the same reasons you talk to a child:
to reassure, to entertain, to inform or explain, to arouse curiosity, and to
inspire - and to do it all personally, not impersonally with a machine. All
those experiences create or strengthen a positive attitude about reading, and
attitude is the foundation stone upon which you build appetites. A secondary
reason,is the established fact that regular reading aloud strengthens children's
reading, writing, and speaking skills - and thus the entire civilizing process.
Jim Trelease
The Read-Aloud Handbook
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