GREAT READ ALOUDS!

Me and Patricia Polacco at the Michigan Reading Association Conference 2010!

Great First-Day Read-Alouds for Teaching Introductory Strategies

Title

• Ape in a Cape; An Alphabet of Odd Animals
• Bark George
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
• Good Night, Gorilla
• How to Be
• I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
• Kitten's First Full Moon
• Monkey and Me
• My Friend is Sad
• No, David!
• The OK Book
• Tomorrow's Alphabet
• What Will Fat Cat Sit On?
• An Egg is Quiet
• Bad Kitty
• Beatrice Doesn't Want To
• Bertie Was a Watchdog
• Bippity Bop Barbershop
• Chester
• Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!

• Duck & Goose
  
• Elizabeti's Doll
• Four Feet, Two Sandals
• Fox in Love
• Froggy Gets Dressed
• The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
• How I Became a Pirate
• I Wanna Iguana
• Ish
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
• Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
• Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from tthe Andes Mountains
• Mary Smith
• Mr. Peabody's Apples
• Mudball
• Music for Alice
• My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks; and Other Funny Family Portraits
• My Lucky Day
• My Name is Yoon

• Once upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
• Piper
• Precious and the Boo Hag

• Superhero ABC
• Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Happy
• Tops & Bottoms
• What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?

Author
Fritz Eichenberg

Jules Feiffer

Mo Willems
Peggy Rathmann
Lisa Brown

Kevin Sherry

Kevin Henkes
Emily Gravett
Mo Willems

David Shannon
Amy Drouse Rosenthal
George Shannon
Jan Thomas
Dianna Aston
Nick Bruel
Laura Numeroff

Rick Walton
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Melanie Watt
Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummell

Tad Hills

Stephanie Stuve Bodeen
Karen Lynn Williams
Edward Marshall
Jonathan London
Chris Van Allsburg
Melinda Long

Karen Kaufman Orloff
Peter Reynolds
Mo Willems
Mo Willems

Barbara Knutson


Andrea U'Ren
Madonna and Loren Long
Matt Tavares

Allen Say

Hanoch Piven


Keiko Kasza
Helen Recorvits and Gabi Swiatkowska

Kevin O'malley, Carol Heyer, and Scott Goto

Emma Chichester Clark
Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss

Bob Mcleod

Scott Menchin


Janet Stevens

Robin Page and Steve Jenkins

Some Favorite Titles for Building Vocabulary

Title

• Clever Ali
• Flossie & The Fox
• The Harmonica
• Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
• Little Green
• Mr. George Baker
• My Father's Hands
• My Rows and Piles of Coins
• Pebble; A Story About Belonging
• Skippyjon Jones
• Some Birthday!
• Thundercake
• Very Hairy Bear
• Wolf

Author

• Nancy Farmer
• Patricia C. McKissack
• Tony Johnston
• Kevin Henkes
• Keith Baker
• Amy Hest
• Joanne Ryder
• Tololwa M. Mollel
• Susan Milford
• Judy Schachner
• Patricia Polacco
• Patricia Polacco
• Alice Schertle
• Becky Bloom