Great Classroom Reads

Is there anything better than diving into a great book with your students?  I am listing some books that have been recommended by other teachers as well as myself.  Teachers will refer to some of these books as core novels/texts. You might use the books for students to read independently or as instructional texts. 

Picture Books

• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
• Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
• The Adventures of Beekle
• Mother Goose Bruce
• I am a Story
• A Child of Books
• What to do With an Idea
• What to do With a Problem
• Finding Winnie
• How to Train a Train
• Aberdeen
• Choose Your Days
• The Giving Tree
• Rosie Revere, Engineer
• Iggy Peck, Architect
• Ada Twist, Scientist
• The Invisible Boy
• The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles
• The Dark
• The Not So Quiet Library

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Grades 3-4

• Gooney Bird Greene (3rd) series
• The Hundred Dresses (3rd)
• Riding Freedom (3rd)
• Frank Einstein and the Anti-Matter Motor (3rd)
• My Father's Dragon (3rd)
• The Year of Billy Miller (3rd)
• Because of Winn Dixie (3rd)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (3rd)
• Ruby Lu Empress of Everything (3rd)
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (3rd/4th)

        

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (4th)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins (4th)
• The One and Only Ivan (4th)
• Al Capone Does my Shirts (4th)
• Rules (4th)
• Turtle in Paradise (4th)
• The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (4th)
• Fish in a Tree (4th)
• El Deafo (4th)
• Bridge to Terabithia (4/5th)
• By the Great Horn Spoon (4/5th)