Ideas for Read Alouds
Grade 5
Among the Hidden, Pinballs, The Boy in the Girl's Bathroom, They're Torturing
Teachers in Room 104 (Jerry Piasecki), The Silver Balloon (Bonners), The Teacher
From the Black Lagoon
Grade 6
Math Curse (Jon Scieszka), Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Cay
Great Books to Use With Grade 5
My Side of the Mountain, My
Brother Sam is Dead, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Where the Red Fern Grows, The
Pinballs, The Cartoonist, I Wanna Go Home, Howliday Inn, The Cay, Call it
Courage, Hatchet, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Skylark, Julie of the Wolves, Summer of
the Swans, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Shiloh, Freaky
Friday, Mouse and the Motorcycle, Stone Fox, Island of the Blue Dolphins, In the
Year of the Boar, Jackie Robinson, What Jamie Saw, P.S. Longer Letter Later, Sun
and Spoon, Freak the Mighty, Holes, Maniac Magee, Crash, Bridget Shinn, Arkansas