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Top Ten Thuersday - Good Read Alouds

9/8/2016

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This weekly frenzy of listing is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
Okay, so I'm kind of breaking the rules. Not only am I once again doing a Top Ten Tuesday post on Thursday (hence the "misspelled" title of my post), but I'm also doing last week's topic. I figure if I'm only going to do one of these every few weeks, I might as well pick the topics I like. Last week's topic was a back to school theme. For the first time in a very long time, I didn't go back to school this fall because I am now a stay-at-home mom. But previous to that, I taught for ten years. So for this post, I decided to compile a list of books that my classes loved to have me read aloud.
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  • The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (This was always my first read aloud of the school year.)
  • The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (My sixth graders really enjoyed this one. The narrator's voice is just spot on for a middle schooler.)
  • The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater (We had to read this one around Thanksgiving every year.)
  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (You have to be pretty good at making motorcycle noises to read this one aloud - or be willing to let your kids make them for you!)
  • Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (Chapter 19 is my favorite.)
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  • Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (This was actually a little difficult as a read aloud, because there are rebus puzzles to solve. But the kids still loved it.)
  • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (I read this one to my class last year for the first time, and they pretty much all said it was their favorite read aloud of the year. I only wish I had discovered it sooner in my teaching career!)
  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (This was one of my favorite read alouds of ever. Especially since I taught fourth grade. I love Fudge!)
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Dahl has a bit of a not particularly polite sense of humor - which of course the kids loved.)
  • The Rumplestiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde (This one was perfect for the end of the school year because it's essentially six retellings of the Rumplestiltskin tale. Didn't matter if we got all the way through the book.)
  • Casey: the Utterly Impossible Horse by Anita MacRae Feagles (My mom visited my classroom last year and read this book to my students. It was one I remembered from my childhood, and they absolutely loved it.)
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Lindsey link
9/8/2016 01:46:49 pm

What a great list! My son just started third grade and I'm waiting to see if his teacher will be reading aloud to his class this year.

We've read several of these, but I'm going to look up The Wednesday Wars.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
9/11/2016 09:24:09 pm

Read aloud time was some of my favorite of the entire school day. It didn't take much convincing from my students to get me to read another chapter. Or two. I hope your son gets to hear some good books this year! :)

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Christine @Buckling Bookshelves link
9/18/2016 02:15:19 pm

I have been really interested in children's literature lately, so thanks for this list! There are so many great books I never read as a kid (or just don't remember!) and I'm loving getting to revisit the whole world of kids books with my son. Of course, we're really just on picture books right now, but I'm looking ahead and reading some older children's books just on my own in between other things. I very much hope that my son will be a fan of read alouds for many years to come :)

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