Short Texts that Support Great Literacy Instruction
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Are you searching for an interactive read aloud or short text for strategy groups or reader’s theater? We, too, have often found ourselves on the very same quest. Over the years, we have lined our shelves with these titles and hope that sharing will simplify your search!
Free Download: Short Texts that Support Great Literacy Instruction: An Annotated Bibliography
Free Download: Short Texts that Support Great Literacy Instruction: An Annotated Bibliography
Amanda and Her Alligator | |
Baseball in April and Other StoriesAuthor: Gary Soto Recommended selection: The Marble Champ. | |
Baseball, Snakes, and Summer Squash: Poems about Growing UpAuthor: Donald Graves Poems can be great resources for interactive read aloud and shared and performance reading. Recommended selection: Fireworks | |
Boy: Tales of ChildhoodAuthor: Roald Dahl These stories are fun and funny, all true to Roald Dahl’s style and form. No need to read this book in its entirety to appreciate individual chapters. Recommended selections: The Great Mouse Plot and Mr. Coombes | |
Childtimes: A Three-Generation MemoirAuthor: Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little Recommended selection: Mama’s Sewing | |
Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young PeopleAuthor: Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple Great book for shared and performance reading. Every topic dealt with from child’s perspective and parent’s perspective. Recommended selections: My Room and Your Room | |
Every Living ThingAuthor: Cynthia Rylant Filled with animal stories that kids love. Recommended selections: Slower Than The Rest and Spaghetti | |
First French Kiss and Other TraumasAuthor: Adam Bagdasarian A gem of a book, especially for older students. Recommended selections: Time and My Side of the Story | |
Guys Read: Funny BusinessAuthor: Jon Scieszka and Adam Rex Children love funny and in this voume of Guys Read, Jon Scieszka calls on popular kids' writers to share their funny stories. | |
Hey World, Here I Am!Author: Jean Little A MUST have for your personal collection that supports great literacy instruction. Everything in this book is great, but the most recommended selections: About Loving, About Old People, About Notebooks, and Five Dollars | |
Knots on My Yo-Yo StringAuthor: Jerry Spinelli Stories from Jerry Spinelli’s childhood. Recommended selection: War | |
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a KidAuthor: Ralph Fletcher Recommended Selections: Farmed Out, Last Kiss, War | |
My Life in Dog YearsAuthor: Gary Paulsen More animal stories that kids love, but these are exclusively about the dogs that have colored Gary Paulsen’s life. Recommended selections: Snowball, Ike, and Fred | |
Past Perfect, Present Tense: New and Collected StoriesAuthor: Richard Peck Recommended Selection: Priscilla and the Wimps | |
Shelf Life: Stories by the BookEditor: Gary Paulsen Recommended Selection: In Your Hat by Ellen Conford | |
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great OneAuthor: Judy Blume Very funny and highly relatable. Recommended selection: Soccer Doc | |
