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Build Your Classroom Library With These Read Alouds 📖

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I love using read alouds as a way to connect students to their learning! Here's a list of all my favorite read alouds that I read to my students throughout the school year!
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Beginnings of the Year✏️

Here are some of my favorite beginning of the year read alouds that I read every year to my students! 

 
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We read this every year on the first day of school in kindergarten!
First Day Jitters
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Great read aloud for explaining school rules!
David Goes to School
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We read this book then the students take a tour of our school to find important places in our school!
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
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A great story for the beginning of the year when students are missing their families!
The Kissing Hand
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A great read aloud for discussions about sharing and how to be a good friend!
The Rainbow Fish
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A great read aloud for teaching students the importance of treating others nicely!
How Full Is Your Bucket?
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I love this book! We always talk about why it's important to treat people nicely and we also do a fun name craft to go along with this read aloud!
Chrysanthemum
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A classic and we do a cute name craft to go along with it!
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Board Book)
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Apples🍎

Every year in kindergarten, we have an apple unit where students learn about apples and have the chance to taste some apples and make applesauce! Here are the read alouds that I love to use during our apples unit! 

 
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I like this book because it has a lot of fun apple facts in it!
Apples for Everyone
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Love this book for teaching the apple life cycle!
An Apple's Life
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I love this book as an example of a nonfiction apple text!
How Do Apples Grow?
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Gail Gibbons always has great non-fiction books! This one is perfect for our apple unit!
Apples
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This is such a cute fiction read aloud that fits perfectly with our apple unit!
The Biggest Apple Ever
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A great fiction read aloud for our apple unit and it's a great book about friendship!
Bad Apple: A Tale of Friendship
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I love this book because it goes through the apple life cycle and shows how apples can be turned into pie!
The Apple Pie Tree
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Pumpkins🎃

Every year we go to the pumpkin patch for our field trip during our pumpkin unit! Here are some of my favorite pumpkin read alouds that we read to the students during our pumpkin unit!

 
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Such a fun read aloud for our pumpkin unit!
Pumpkin Jack
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I love this read aloud! It has so many pumpkin facts in it!
Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie
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A fun read aloud to go along with our pumpkin investigation!
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
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Such a cute story and goes perfectly with our pumpkin and shapes unit!
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin
 
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A great fiction read aloud for our pumpkin unit! Students have such a fun time coming up with their own ideas of how big their pumpkin could grow to be!
How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?

Fall 🍂

Here are some of my favorite fall read alouds!

 
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I love this series! It's such a cute book for fall! 🍂
The Leaf Thief
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Such a cute fall read aloud!
The Very Last Leaf
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For Pete the Cat lovers and perfect for fall!
Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn
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Halloween 👻

Here are some of my favorite Halloween read alouds! 

 
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This is such a cute read aloud! A must read!
Gustavo, the Shy Ghost:
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Love all the food group books! This is perfect for Halloween!
The Bad Seed: The Good, Bad & Spooky
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I'm a huge fan of “The Day The Crayons Quit”! This is perfect for Halloween!
The Crayons Trick or Treat
 
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A fun sppoky read aloud! Perfect for Halloween!
Creepy Carrots!
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Thanksgiving 🦃

Here are some of my favorite Thanksgiving read alouds!

 
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Love this book so much! It's such a cute & funny book! The students also have a chance to disguise their own turkey!
Turkey Trouble
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Such a cute read aloud! Perfect for Thanksgiving!
'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
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A great book to use when teaching students about being thankful!
I Am Thankful: A Thanksgiving Book for Kids
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A great nonfiction read aloud for our Thanksgiving/Turkey Unit!
Turkeys (Bullfrog Books: Animals on the Farm)
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Christmas🎄

Here are some of my favorite Christmas Read Alouds that we read to the kiddos every year!

 
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Such a classic! The kids love this book!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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All aboard the Polar Express! We make a whole day out of this! We read the Polar Express then watch the movie to compare and contrast! Students also get to enjoy hot chocolate and come to school in their pjs!
The Polar Express
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This one is always a class favorite!
Elf: Classic Illustrated Storybook (Pop Classics)
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Students love this book and have so much fun seeing the mischief our elf has been up to while the were gone!
The Elf on the Shelf
 
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Such a cute book and great for practicing sequence writings!
How to Catch a Reindeer
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Winter❄️

Here are some of my favorite winter read alouds! So many fun Jan Brett books in the winter! 

 
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Such a cute book and perfect for our Jan Brett mini unit!
Gingerbread Baby
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Another Jan Brett favorite for our Jan Brett mini unit!
The Snowy Nap
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One of my most favorite Jan Brett Books! We have so many cute activities that go along with it!
The Mitten
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Such a cute & funny winter read aloud!
Yetis Are the Worst!
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Love this series! Couldn't pass up the winter version!
The Snow Thief
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I love Ezra Jack Keats' books! This is one is one of my favorites!
The Snowy Day
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This is such a fun read aloud! The students get the chance to write about what they think made their snowman melt!
Sneezy the Snowman
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Valentine's Day💕

 
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Such a cute story about friendship!
Love Monster
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Such a cute story that talks about the power of your words!
Words and Your Heart
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Love Laura Numeroff books! This one is perfect for Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse!
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For Pete the Cat lovers and perfect for Valentines Day!
Pete the Cat: Valentine's Day Is Cool
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