Recommended Books for Gr. 4-6
The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy
Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay (first of a series)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (less mature)
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry (less mature)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Rocky Road by Rose Kent
Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan
Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes (more mature)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (highly recommended)
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (highly recommended)
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (first of a series)
War Horse by Michael Morpugo (less mature)
Wendy Mass books:
11 Birthdays
12 Finally
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
A Mango-Shaped Space (more mature)
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (classic)
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies (less mature)
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (first of a series)
Carl Hiassen books:
Hoot
Flush
Scat
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (more mature)
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (first of a series)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (nearly classic)
The Warriors series by Erin Hunter
All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn (ghost story)
Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (mystery and first of a series)
The Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (nearly classic)
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
Joshua's Song by Joan Hiatt Harlow (historical fiction about Boston)
Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata (historical fiction about dogs in the Vietnam War)
Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer (first of a series and more mature)
And, of course, The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (she also wrote a "younger" series called Gregor the Overlander);
The Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan and his Heroes follow up series)
**For students in lower grades check out the recommended book list and reading strategies on Mrs. Beaudette's reading page.
Find time to check out these great reads at Scituate Town Library
Songs that Build Reading & Language Skills available on
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Sounds of Letters, Digraphs, and Blends*
Songs that Build Phonological Awareness*
ESL / EFL / ESOL Songs* Elementary Concepts*
Grammar Songs*
Vocabulary and Idioms
Playing With Traditional Literature
Playing With Words(See also Phonemic Awareness Songs)
Songs that Encourage Children to Read
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Sounds of Letters, Digraphs, and Blends*
- Initial letter sounds from A to Z
- Consonants, Blends and Digraphs
- Long and Short Vowels
Songs that Build Phonological Awareness*
- Concepts of Words and Syllables
- Recognition and Production of Rhymes
- Word Families -- Phonograms -- Onsets and Rimes
- Segmenting, Blending, and Manipulation of Phonemes and Syllables
ESL / EFL / ESOL Songs* Elementary Concepts*
- Concepts of words, names, opposites, animals, colors, and shapes.
Grammar Songs*
- Songs that Teach Parts of Speech, Punctuation, and Spelling
Vocabulary and Idioms
- I Ain't Got (A Good Enough Vocabulary) — Fill Your Head®
- Idioms — Jim Thompson
- Idioms — Ron Brown
Playing With Traditional Literature
- The Gingerbread Girl Rap — Jim Rule
- Hey There, Goldilocks — Ron Brown
- The Lion and the Mouse — Jack Hartmann
- Little Henny Penny — Ron Brown
- The Little Red Hen — Jackie Cytrynbaum
- Slow and Steady — Susan Harrison
- Three Bears Blues — Andrew Queen
- The Three Little Pigs Rap — Jim Rule
- The Ugly Duckling Blues — Susan Harrison
Playing With Words(See also Phonemic Awareness Songs)
- Miguel the Magic Monkey — Jack Hartmann
- Rhyme Riddles — Marla Lewis
- Topsy Turvy — Fran Avni
- The Word Family Song — J.W. Snyder
Songs that Encourage Children to Read
- Make Reading a Habit — Ben and Elizabeth Stiefel
- Partner Reading — Kathleen Wiley
- R.E.A.D. — Susan Harrison
- Read A Book — Marilyn M. Linford
- Ready to Read — Jack Hartmann
- Read, Read, Read — David East
- We Love to Read — Marla Lewis
- You Want to Read — Jennifer Fixman
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