There is nothing better about my job than reading aloud to students! Students at Acworth have storytime on the rug at least one time a month. Usually the books are built around a theme or standard that ties in to what they are doing in class. Below is the list of books that I read by unit and grade level.....I hope you will check them out!
Books About the Library
- Library Lion (Knudsen) Grade 2
- Bats at the Library (Lies) Grade 2
- The Library Dragon (Deedy) Grade 3
- Library Mouse (Kirk) Grade 3
- Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora) Grade 4
- Richard Wright and the Library Card (Miller) Grade 5
Descriptive Writing
- Crow Boy (Yashima)-Description of person Grade 4
- Snowy, Flowy, Blowy (Tafuri)-Description of months Grade 2
- Amos and Boris (Steig)-Description of friendship Grade 5
- The Napping House (Wood)-Description of sleepy house Grade 3
- Cloud Dance (Locker)-Description of clouds Grade 2
- Grandpa's Face (Greenfield)-Description of person Grade 4
- Various poems from Alpha, Beta Chowder (Steig), Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein), and The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury (Prelutsky)
Personal Narrative
- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Scieszka) Grade 2
- Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad (Rumford) Grade 3
- Excerpts from Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Clark) and Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell's own Story (Wadsworth) Grade 4
- Excerpts from My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto (Grossman and Smith) and The Upstairs Room (Reiss) Grade 5
Social Studies Tie-Ins
- The Great Ball Game: A Muscogee Story (Bruhac) Grades 2 and 4
- Selected tales from Uncle Remus Grade 5
- The Creek Grade 2
- The Dancing Teepee (selected poems) Grades 2 and 4
- We the Kids Grade 3
- John, Paul, George and Ben Grade 3
We Give Thanks
- The Giving Tree (Silverstein)
- The Circle of Days (Lindbergh)
- Feeling Thankful (Rotner)
- poems from Thanksgiving Day at Our House (Carlstrom)
- The Child's World of Thankfulness (McDonnell)