SELECTED BY LINDA HOYT ead-Aloud GRADES K –5 Collections B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 11/7/20 11:02 AM2 Building Literacy and Language for Life ™ ® ® Building Literacy and Language for Life ™ ® ® Dear Educator, Read-aloud time is a much-treasured time in today’s classrooms. This is when we can focus on the most joyous part of reading: helping children find passion and wonder in the world of print. When I see wide eyes and bodies yearning forward, I know students are fully engaged with the selection—opening the door for deep thinking, expanded oral language, and meaningful expansion of world knowledge. We have assembled these Grade-Level Read-Aloud Libraries to serve as a pathway connecting your learners to exciting trade books that link meaningfully to the knowledge strands and units woven into your instruction. You may wish to also add your favorite selections, making the most of your expertise as well as the interests of your students. Read-alouds with fiction, nonfiction, and poetry increase our ability to empathize with others, expand our vision of the world, and ignite a sense of literate wonder—rigorous, inviting, and effective learning awaits. Enjoy! Sincerely, Linda Hoyt Linda Hoyt Author of Interactive Read-Alouds K–1, 2–3, 4–5, 6–7 Due to publisher availability, there could be times when we need to substitute a title in a collection. Substitutions are of the same reading and interest level, and have been specially selected by Linda Hoyt. Phot o Cr edits: Fr ont C o v er A: Pr o vided b y Linda Ho yt; Fr ont C o v er B: w a v ebr eakmedia/ Shutt ers tock; P age 2, 3: sk ynesher /Getty Images; P age 11: Benchmark E duca tion C ompan y Table of Contents Read-Aloud Collections by Grade Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grade 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Grade 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Grade 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Grade 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Grade 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 K–5 Read-Aloud BookRoom . . . 10 Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 21/7/20 11:02 AM3 The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. — Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, Penguin Books, 2013 “ “ B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 31/7/20 11:02 AM4 Kindergarten Read-Aloud Collection 10 Books in a Colorful and Sturdy Plastic Storage Bin LIFE SCIENCE Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner CHARACTER MATTERS Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes GOVERNMENT & CITIZENSHIP Can I Bring Woolly to the Library, Ms. Reeder? by Lois G. Grambling PERSPECTIVES IN LITERATURE Chester by Mélanie Watt TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Shortcut by Donald Crews PHYSICAL SCIENCE Bicycle Book by Gail Gibbons THEMES ACROSS CULTURES All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold EARTH SCIENCE Storm in the Night by Mary Stolz HISTORY, CULTURE & GEOGRAPHY Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin ECONOMICS Yard Sale by Eve Bunting Grade K B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 41/7/20 11:02 AM5 Grade 1 Read-Aloud Collection Grade 1 10 Books in a Colorful and Sturdy Plastic Storage Bin THEMES ACROSS CULTURES Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh EARTH SCIENCE Ladder to the Moon by Maya Soetoro-Ng HISTORY, CULTURE & GEOGRAPHY These Hands by Margaret H. Mason ECONOMICS Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts LIFE SCIENCE The Dandelion Seed by Joseph Anthony CHARACTER MATTERS Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson GOVERNMENT & CITIZENSHIP Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara PERSPECTIVES IN LITERATURE Yoko by Rosemary Wells TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull PHYSICAL SCIENCE Switch On, Switch Off by Melvin Berger B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 51/7/20 11:02 AM6 Grade 2 Read-Aloud Collection 10 Books in a Colorful and Sturdy Plastic Storage Bin Grade 2 LIFE SCIENCE A Butterfly Is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston CHARACTER MATTERS A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac GOVERNMENT & CITIZENSHIP I Pledge Allegiance by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez PERSPECTIVES IN LITERATURE The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet by Marcia Schonberg PHYSICAL SCIENCE Do You Really Want to Skate on Thin Ice? A Book about States of Matter by Daniel Maurer THEMES ACROSS CULTURES Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe EARTH SCIENCE If You Find a Rock by Peggy Christian HISTORY, CULTURE & GEOGRAPHY A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David A. Adler ECONOMICS The Big Buck Adventure by Shelley Gill B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 61/7/20 11:02 AM7 Grade 3 Read-Aloud Collection Grade 3 10 Books in a Colorful and Sturdy Plastic Storage Bin THEMES ACROSS CULTURES The Girl with a Brave Heart: A Tale from Tehran by Rita Jahanforuz EARTH SCIENCE Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature’s Mysteries from Perilous Places by Donna M. Jackson HISTORY, CULTURE & GEOGRAPHY Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney ECONOMICS How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor LIFE SCIENCE Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart CHARACTER MATTERS A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park GOVERNMENT & CITIZENSHIP The Day Gogo Went to Vote by Elinor Batezat Sisulu PERSPECTIVES IN LITERATURE The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling by Elise Moser PHYSICAL SCIENCE On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 71/7/20 11:02 AM8 Grade 4 Read-Aloud Collection Grade 4 10 Books in a Colorful and Sturdy Plastic Storage Bin LIFE SCIENCE Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems by Mary Batten CHARACTER MATTERS On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer GOVERNMENT & CITIZENSHIP Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein PERSPECTIVES IN LITERATURE The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton PHYSICAL SCIENCE The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley THEMES ACROSS CULTURES The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis EARTH SCIENCE Earthquakes by Ker Than HISTORY, CULTURE & GEOGRAPHY Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story by S. D. Nelson ECONOMICS A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 81/7/20 11:02 AM9 Grade 5 Read-Aloud Collection Grade 5 10 Books in a Colorful and Sturdy Plastic Storage Bin LIFE SCIENCE Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins CHARACTER MATTERS A Day’s Work by Eve Bunting GOVERNMENT & CITIZENSHIP Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman’s Race for the Presidency by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen PERSPECTIVES IN LITERATURE Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Space Case by Stuart Gibbs PHYSICAL SCIENCE Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Muñoz Ryan THEMES ACROSS CULTURES I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai EARTH SCIENCE Where Is the Mississippi River? by Dina Anastasio HISTORY, CULTURE & GEOGRAPHY The Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana Gregory ECONOMICS The History of Money by Martin Jenkins B8135_Read_Aloud_Collections.indd 91/7/20 11:02 AMNext >