No matter the grade level, students love being read to! I even enjoy listening to a story or podcast as an adult because I really like listening to the details and the speaker’s voice. Because of this, I made it a goal to read one picture book a day to my fifth graders so we could reach a goal of reading a total of 180 days/books in the school year.
I started by picking a time of the school day that worked best for our schedule. I knew I needed about 15 minutes in the day. The best time for us to read was 15 minutes at the end of the day after we packed up our things. I also found the cover online of the books we read, printed and cut them out so I could staple it to our 180 Days of Reading board. This was a great culmination so that we could see how many amazing stories we shared as a class.
I have compiled my list of 180 (and more) books on my Amazon Store Front.
Click here to see (and buy) all of the titles on my Amazon Store Front.
I also have a free 180 Days of Reading bulletin board title here!
You can organize the schedule of your read alouds in any way to fit your classroom, but I’ve included a month-by-month guide below…in case you wanted some support in structuring it for the year.
| August |
September |
October
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- Our Class is a Family
- A Letter from Your Teacher
- First Day Jitters
- The Name Jar
- A Fine, Fine School
- Slyvester and the Magic Pebble
- Chrysanthemum
- The Invisible Boy
- A Thousand No’s
- Zero
- One
- Two
- The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes
- Enemy Pie
- All Are Welcome
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- You Are Enough
- Ish
- Sky Color
- The Dot
- The Pigeon Has to Go to School
- I Want My Hat Back
- Jabari Tries
- The Day the Kids Took Over
- Happy-Sad Today
- Happy Dreamer
- Miss Nelson is Missing
- Perfect
- Thelma the Unicorn
- What If
- Try a Little Kindness
- The Day the Crayons Quit
- The Day the Crayons Came Back
- How Full is Your Bucket
- The Good Egg
- Never Let a Unicorn Scribble
- The Boats
- 30,000 Stitches
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- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
- Islandborn
- I Love Saturdays y Domingos
- Alma
- Celia Cruz
- Too Many Tamales
- Fiesta Dress
- Frida
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
- Bony Legs
- Giraffes Can’t Dance
- Pig the Monster
- Room on the Broom
- Wemberly Worried
- Noodle Magic
- Strega Nona
- Gustavo the Shy Ghost
- How to Catch a Monster
- Crankenstein
- Frankenstein Doesn’t Wear Earmuffs
- The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky
- Room on the Broom
- Creepy Carrots
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| November |
December |
January
|
- Turkey Trouble
- Pig the Pug
- The Word Collector
- I Am Enough
- Are You Eating Candy Without Me?
- Last Stop on Market Street
- The Return of Thelma the Unicorn
- Give Bees a Chance
- The Bad Seed
- Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas
- The Squirrels Who Squabbled
- Dragons Love Tacos
- The Recess Queen
- If Kids Ran the World
- I Believe I Can
- The Water Princess
- Bad Case of Stripes
- The Cool Bean
- There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Turkey
- Turkey Trouble
|
- Please, Mr. Panda
- Be You
- The Gingerbread Girl
- Max
- If I Built a School
- How to Catch a Dinosaur
- Pug the Elf
- Our Table
- The Advent Elf
- Be You!
- We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands
- Strega Nona’s Gift
- The Polar Express
- Abdul Gasazi’s Garden
- The Stranger
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- Ways to Welcome
- The Worrysaurus
- Stick and Stone
- The Little Butterfly That Could
- If You Ever Want to Bring a Cricus to the LIbrary, Don’t!
- Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolutions
- Sneezy the Snowman
- The Mitten
- Curious About Snow
- The Biggest Snowman Ever
- They All Saw a Cat
- When I Feel Left Out
- Who Ever Heard of a Flying Bird?
- Swimmy
- Snow
- Snowy Day
- Harry the Dirty Dog
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| February |
March |
April
|
- The Story of Ruby Bridges
- Big Words
- All Because You Matter
- Same, Same, but Different
- The Pigeon Needs a Bath
- Pig the Slob
- Scribble stones
- The Day it Rained Hearts
- Groundhog’s Runaway Shadow
- Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse
- The Biggest Valentine’s Ever
- Groundhog Day
- The Moose Who Loved Noodles
- The Story of Ferdinand
- The Empty Pot
- Waiting
- Dream Big
- The Boy Who Never Gave Up
- Frederick
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- Walter’s Wonderful Web
- March Comes in Like a Lion and Goes out like a Lamb
- Dragon Loves Tacos 2
- Tiny T. Rex
- Koala Lou
- Harry and the Hot Lava
- How to Catch a Leprechaun
- The magic of Me: My Magical Choices
- Press Here
- Memory Jars
- Be Quiet!
- The Gruffalo
- Diary of a Worm
- Eyes that Kiss the Corners
- Immi’s Gift
- The Book with No Pictures
- Your Name Song
- The Brain Storm
- The Girl Who Thought in Pictures
- Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket
- Rosie Revere Engineer
- Dinosaur Lady
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- A Little Spot of Confidence
- Too Many Carrots
- Grumpy Monkey
- Where’d my Giggle Go?
- I Am Human
- The Rock that Fell from the Sky
- Strictly No Elephants
- Jumanji
- Duck on a Bike
- Bear Can’t Wait
- Library Lion
- The Most Magnificent Thing
- Because
- Eraser
- The Great Escape
- The Rainbow Fish
- The Giving Tree
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| May |
June
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- Norman Didn’t Do It!
- The Wonderful Things You Will Be
- What Do You Do With an Idea?
- The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun
- The Sandwich Sisters
- Carla’s Sandwich
- Can I Be Your Dog?
- Unicorn Day
- Be Kind
- Chocolate Milk, Por Favor!
- Ricky, The Rock that Couldn’t Roll
- Pugtato
- The Day You Begin
- The Often Misunderstood Black Widow
- Nobody Hugs a Cactus
- Owl Moon
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- Salt in his Shoes
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The Gardner
- I Chose to Calm my Anger
- A New Day
- Gratitude is my Superpower
- The Color Monster
- A Little Spot of Courage
- Mistakes that Worked
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