Need 5th grade teaches helpl please...

My sister needs to go to my nieces school to do a read aloud tomorrow. what do you read to 5th graders that can be read I guess within one period?

Any suggestions??

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Ewww, picture books could work since it is the time frame. I used The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume to do a compare and contrast, point of view lesson.

Owen and Mzee is nice. It's about the baby hippo and tortoise from the tsunami.

Re: Need 5th grade teaches helpl please...

I think you can read a lot of great books-there are so many excellent pieces of literatyre... are there any topics your niece is learning about in school-science, S.S. or Math? That might be a place tp start-

Math Curse and Science Verse are great books... to tie into the curriculum.

I always love Patricia Polacco books. She has a great selection to choose from and the kids are always mesmerized by her great pictures. Betty Doll is one of my favorites..

Fly away home-about how a young boy and his dad are homeless and eventually find hope-I know it's sad, but maybe the kids can do a writing piece on something they are thankful for.

Snowmen at Night-not sure of the author...

Jerry Seinfeld also wrote a book that is pretty popular around the holidays-

here is a good site to check out-

hope this helped you!!!



pic books

Re: Need 5th grade teaches helpl please...

thanks i am going to pass this onto her.

Re: Need 5th grade teaches helpl please...

Oooh, also a new book called a million little dots! It shows them how much a million really is!