Titles to get you started.

1. Read Aloud List
Picture books for upper grades
(This is not a complete list, but enough to get started!)
Comprehension Strategies:
The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
Unfortunately by Remy Charlip
Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups by David Wisniewski
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Language Arts:
Merry-Go-Round /A Book About Nouns by Ruth Heller
Many Luscious Lollipops/ A Book About Adjectives by Ruth Heller
Mine, All Mine/ A Book About Pronouns by Ruth Heller
Up, Up And Away/ A Book About Adverbs by Ruth Heller
Kites Sail High/A Book About Verbs by Ruth Heller
Punctuation Takes A Vacation by Robin Pulver
Anamalia by Graeme Base (Alliteration)
Even More Parts by Tedd Arnold (Idioms)
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss (punctuation)
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin (journal/diary entries)
Miss Alaineus A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Fraiser
Science:
What’s the Matter in Mr. Whisker’s Room? by Michael Elsohn Ross (matter)
Photosynthesis: Changing Sunlight into Food A Bobbie Kalman Book
Metamorphosis: Changing Bodies A Bobbie Kalman Book
Pass the Energy, Please! by Barbara Shaw McKinney (food chain)
The Best Book of Weather by Simon Adams (other best books of various topics)
Extreme Weather (other titles in science and S.S. series) National Geographic
Earth and Space The Usborne Internet-Linked Library of Science
ANY OTHER PICTURE/NON-FICTION BOOK RELATED TO YOUR STANDARDS

2. Math:
How Much is a Million? by David M. Schwartz
If You Made A Million by David M. Schwartz
If You Hopped Like A Frog by David M. Schwartz
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
The Best of Times by Greg Tang
The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang
Math Appeal by Greg Tang
Math Potatoes by Greg Tang
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone by Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander
A Remainder of One by Elinor J. Pinczes
Social Studies:
Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin by Gene Barretta
I Am The Mummy Heb-Nefert by Eve Bunting (Ancient Egypt)
The Flag With Fifty-Six Stars: A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen by Susan
Goldman Rubin (Holocaust)
You Wouldn’t Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party by Peter Cook
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island by Ellen Levine
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
I Am Sacajawea, I Am York: Our Journey West with Lewis and Clark
by Claire Rudolf Murphy
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
Recommended Resource for Read Alouds and Strategy
Instruction: Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne
Goudvis (Stenhouse Publishers 2000) ISBN 1-57110-310-4

3. Jody Sulser LC Coordinator CELL/ExLL/SC/2007