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What are your favorite read-alouds for elementary students - any grade level? These could be books that are your favorite to read aloud to your students or books that you enjoyed the most when a teacher read them to you when you were in elementary school. Picture books, non-fiction books, chapter books are all welcome suggestions. They might be books that tie into a particular lesson/concept or books that you read for the sheer joy of it.
I am moving back up to teach fourth grade again next year, but have taught a variety of grade levels (2nd grade up to 8th). As I go through all of the classroom books I have purchased over the years (deciding which to store here at home and which I will want to lug back to school in mid-August), I would love to look at them with new eyes and perhaps get some ideas on books I may want to use again in the upcoming year.
Roald Dahl is always a hit with kids. Particularly great for fourth grade are James and the Giant Peach and Boy.
If you study ancient civilizations, Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay can be a humorous way to start conversations about what anthropologists and historians do and how they analyze historical evidence.
When I was in 5th grade our teacher read Watership Down aloud to us over the course of a few months. It was a wonderful experience and of all the stories that have been read to me in my lifetime, it's the one I remember most vividly.
4th grade? That might be about the age I was reading my kids The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It was a great way to spend a lot of quality time together and help cement the love of literature.
I don't know how popular they are in Texas, but my wife, who is an elementary school librarian, would probably strongly recommend the novels of Katherine Paterson, who lives in the next town over from us.
Not sure about the grade level, but Frindle by Andrew Clements is one I like a lot.
I agree with Frindle. I am just now finishing reading it to my third graders. Another fun one, which I read earlier in the year, is Cal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine by Richard Hamilton.
Thanks for the ideas so far. Luckily, I have many of the books in my collection and will be pulling some of them out to read again this summer. I have not read Motel of the Mysteries and may check that out from the library.
Dr. Seuss- even at that level. It makes them slow down and read for prosody, tone, inflection. When I give after school detention, I have them read Fox in Socks. Once they can get through it, they can leave. It takes them some time. And, yes, I teach 9-12.
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