Good read aloud book for third grade???

Question

I just got a wonderful job as a third grade teacher. I was wondering if anyone could give me the titles of some good books to read aloud to my students. Thanks so much.

Answer 1

Anything by Louis Sachar, particularly the Wayside stories are a lot of fun, make sure to get the 1st book otherwise everyone will be lost...I think it's Sideways Stories from Wayside but I could be wrong or Ronald Dahl, Witches or BFG come to mind. Stuart Little is an excellent book.

Typically try to read to them books that they would not be able to read to themselves, but they still can understand.

Answer 2

I use this book for my children that I tutor... I love it.

Paul Fleischman’s
Seedfolks

In Seedfolks, Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman creates an urban garden that brings a new sense of hope and community to a bleak Cleveland neighborhood. Seedfolks consists of a series of first-person vignettes, each told by a different character. As perspectives, dispositions, and backgrounds shift with the narratives, the reader comes to understand the personal reasons that bring these thirteen very different individuals one by one to a vacant lot to plant and nourish seeds. Despite prejudices, hesitancies, and language differences, the estranged neighbors begin to find ways of overlooking these barriers to develop new relationships with each other. Before long the multiethnic seedfolks have developed a sense of pride and fellowship. The distinct voices of each character show the reader the vast differences and similarities that can exist simultaneously among diverse people, and how these differences can actually help those people form a community as vibrant and rich as the garden they have created.

Answer 3

Enid Blyton - The Enchanted Wood, (and other books in the series about the Faraway Tree)
Enid Blyton - Secret Seven stories
C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Answer 4

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, SuperFudge, Freckle Juice all are good ones for read alouds.

Answer 5

I teach 3rd grade as well and I find that many children like Eric Carle. I get very excited reactions and a kick out of it when I read "The Grouchy Ladybug" and get into character and read the grouchy ones lines in a mean gruff voice.

Answer 6

-The Mouse and the Motorcycle: Beverly Cleary
- the magic tree house Series: Mary Pope Osborne(i loved reading these)
-From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler :E.L. Konigsburg

congrats on being a teacher!!!! i hope that this will help

Answer 7

The Mrs Piggle Wiggle books. Children love these stories and they deal with actual problems that many kids have. I don't know if Mrs Piggle Wiggles' solutions ever help any real kids, but they do enjoy the books.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the title of a series of books by Betty MacDonald.
The first book in this series is called Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and sequels include Hello Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm.

It stars Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a small lady who lives in a lively neighborhood inhabited mainly by children who have bad habits.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a chest full of magical cures left to her by her deceased husband, Mr. Piggle-Wiggle, who was a pirate. Whenever a parent has a problem with their child/children's bad habits, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle gives them a special cure. Cures range from the fairly mundane, (the Won't-Pick-Up-Toys Cure involves not requiring a small boy to pick up his toys for several weeks until he's unable to escape from his room) to the fantastic (the Interrupting Cure is a special powder that is blown on the interrupter, with the effect that it causes the person to become temporarily mute every time he/she tries to interrupt someone).

Answer 8

Any book, really.
I should add...
Make sure to mix them up. I was a student teacher last year for grade 3.
Boys enjoyed hockey books, where as girls enjoyed stories about pets...girlie things.

Answer 9

ZACHS LIE its a really good book my third grade teacher read it to me then after that read jacks run ok?

Answer 10

Mr.Popper's Penguins, The Five Chinese Brothers, Stone Fox, Sarah, Palin and Tall, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Encyclopedia Brown, Charlotte's Web. <------That's all sources I can give you.