Monday, August 16, 2010

Read Alouds for Third Grade

In keeping up with our Read Aloud focus, here are 100 Books to Read in Third Grade.  What books would you add?


Classics
¨      A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
¨     Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
¨     Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
¨     Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
¨     Dr. Desoto by William Steig
¨     The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
¨     Streganona by Tomie dePaola
¨     The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
¨     A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
¨     The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
¨     The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Anchor Texts for Reading and Writing Lessons
¨      Please Write in this Book by Mary Amato
¨     Author: A True Story by Helen Lester
¨     The Drinking Gourd by F.N. Monjo
¨     Keepers by Jeri Hanel Watts
¨     The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
¨     All I See by Peter Catalanotto
¨     An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant
¨     Grandpa’s Face by Eloise Greenfield
¨     Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger
¨     Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
¨     The Honest to Goodness Truth by Patricia McKissack
Folk and Fairy Tales
¨      Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters by Jane Yolen & H. Stemple
¨     Coyote Steals the Blanket by Janet Stevens
¨     Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop’s Fables  by Jon Bierhorst
¨     Once in a Wood: Ten Tales from Aesop by Eve Rice
¨     Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg
¨     Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg
¨     Rumpelstiltskin by Grimm (illustrated by P. Zalinsky)
¨     Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen
¨     The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Boble
Words, Math Concepts, and Poetry Books
¨          Frindle by Andrew Clements
¨          I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun? by Brian Cleary
¨          Grandfather Tang’s Story by Ann Tompert
¨          How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz
¨          Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
¨          The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
¨          Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan
¨          The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter
¨          Miss Alainius:  A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier
¨          Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner
Award Winners and Honor Books
¨     Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
¨     The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
¨     Many Moons by James Thurber
¨     Fables by Arnold Lobel
¨     26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie dePaola
¨     The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
¨     A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos
    Williams by Jen Bryant
¨     A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull by
      Joseph Bruchak
Historical Fiction/Mystery/Series Books
¨      Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
¨     Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society by Betsy Byars
¨     Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
¨     Samuel Eaton’s Day by Kate Waters
¨     Sarah Morton’s Day by Kate Waters
¨     Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
¨     Cam Jansen by David Adler
¨     Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol
¨     Rent Party Jazz by William Miller
Fantasy/Daydreams/Fiction books with Lessons
¨      2030:  A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Kids by A. Zuckerman and J. Daly
¨     Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
¨     The Conquerors by David McKee
¨     The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
¨     Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
¨     The Fortune Tellers by Lloyd Alexander
¨     Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia MacKissack
¨     The Big Red Barn by Eve Bunting
¨     The Bicycle Man by Allen Say
Informational Text
¨      La Mariposa by Francisco Jimenez
¨     Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story by W. Tokuda & R. Hall
¨     Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
¨     Living Color by Steve Jenkins
¨     Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
¨     Mountains by Seymour Simon
¨     Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
¨     Spiders by Gail Gibbons
¨     Salt in His Shoes by Roslyn Jordan
Silly Books  
¨     George and Martha by James Marshall
¨     Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen
¨     The Trial of Cardigan Jones by Tim Egan
¨     Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein
¨     Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
¨     The Great Quillow by James Thurber
¨     Mishmash by Molly Cone
¨     Piggie Pie! by Margie Palatini
¨     The Ghost-Eye Tree by Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archembault
¨     Dogs Rule! by Daniel Kirk
¨     Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
¨     Cinder-Elly by Frances Minters
Realistic Fiction
¨      The Facts and Fiction of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan
¨     Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix
¨     Dare to Dream! by Carl Sommer
¨     The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills
¨     Class Clown by Johanna Hurwitz
¨     Grandaddy’s Place by Helen Griffith
¨     Me & Neesie by Eloise Greenfield
¨     New Neighbors for Nora by Johanna Hurwitz
¨     Ragtime Tumpie by Alan Schroder
¨     Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie dePaola
¨     Abuela by Arthur Dorros
Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting 

1 comment:

Momma Roar said...

THANK YOU!!!!