End of Year Read Aloud Recommendations

This month we are highlighting books that share the excitement of summer coming and the school year coming to an end! Courtney and I have asked some of our blogging buddies to guest post with their own read aloud recommendations this month!

Check out these recommendations from Jaime over at Bright Concepts 4 Teachers.

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end of year read alouds
The Night Before Summer Vacation by Natasha Wing
end of year read alouds

This is a humorous story about a family preparing to go on a summer vacation trip. In all the chaos, they know something will be forgotten during all the packing and planning.
Use for teaching: problem/solution, sequencing, rhyming, poetry
Grades: K-2
Last Day Blues by Julie Danneberg
end of year read alouds

It’s the last week of school and the kids are excited for summer but they don’t want their teacher to miss them. This book illustrates the similarities between teachers and their students and how they are more alike than different.
Use for teaching: compassion, love of learning, friendships

Inch and Miles by Coach John Wooden
end of year read alouds

School is almost out and Inch and Miles have one last assignment before summer. Their coach wants to explain the meaning of success. Their journey takes them through experiences that teach them how to try 100% to be their personal best!
Use for teaching: how to be successful in life, self esteem, encouragement, personal best

Grades: K-2
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
end of year read alouds
A humorous story about a silly crocodile who is afraid of swallowing a watermelon seed.

Use for teaching: reality v. fiction, story telling with pictures, sequencing, imagination
Grades: K-2
Don’t forget to hop on over to Courtney’s blog to read the upper grade recommendations from Literacy for Big Kids!
What’s your favorite end of year read aloud?
{This will be our last post for the school year, but we will be back late July with your Back to School book recommendations!}
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