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