Interactive Read-Aloud Recommendations
By Wendy Sheets, Intermediate Trainer
When engaging
children in the practice of Interactive Read-Aloud, it is important to choose
high quality text that will promote good conversation. In addition, exposing
students to a wide range of authors, genre, and content will broaden their
repertoire of experiences. I am often asked for a list of recommendations, and
although many lists have been published by others, I’ve compiled my own
personal list of favorites. What follows is a variety of titles that I have
personally used during Interactive Read-Aloud with intermediate readers. I
would love to hear some of your favorites as well!
A
Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick
A
River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant
A
Unicorn Named Beulah Mae by J.H.
Stroschin
Abe’s
Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Doreen Rappaport
Amelia
Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator
by Shelley Tanaka
An
Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia
Rylant
Beethoven
Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol
Bigmama’s
by Donald Crews
Chicken
Sunday by Patricia Polacco
Christmas
Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
Coming
on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
Crab
Moon by Ruth Horowitz
Crow
Call by Lois Lowry
Dave
the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by
Laban Carrick Hill
Dear
Willie Rudd, by Liba Moore Gray
Diary
of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Fly
Away Home by Eve Bunting
Grandfather’s
Journey by Allen Say
Grandpa’s
Face by Eloise Greenfield
Henry’s
Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
I
Love You the Purplest by Barbara M.
Joosse
Listen
to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three
Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and
Susan L. Roth
Ma
Dear’s Aprons by Patricia McKissack
Martin’s
Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
More
Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby
Moses:
When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
My
Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba
Gray
My
Name is York by Elizabeth Van
Steenwyk
Mr.
Peabody’s Apples by Madonna
New
York’s Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne
Owl
Moon by Jane Yolen
Pink
and Say by Patricia Polacco
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
Saturdays
and Teacakes by Lester L. Laminack
Show
Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Sit
In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Snowflake
Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Sophie's Masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli
Sweet
Clara and the Freedom Quilt by
Deborah Hopkinson
Thank
You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
The
Brothers Kennedy: John, Robert, Edward
by Kathleen Krull
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The
Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland and
Tatsuro Kiuchi
The
Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
by Susan Wojciechowski
The
Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston
The
Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
The
Three Questions by Jon J. Muth
Train
to Somewhere by Eve Bunting
Twilight
Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher
Under
the Quilt of Night by Deborah
Hopkinson
Up
North at the Cabin by Marsha Wilson
Chall
Welcome
to the River of Grass by Jane Yolen
When
Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Munoz Ryan
Who
Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? by
Nancy Patz
