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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

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This would be a great book for K-2 students as it encourages them that reading can be for enjoyment. On top of that, this book can be used to teach prosody. The speech bubbles in the book vary to imply various inflections such as calm and panicked. Also, many children have their own beloved stuffed animal or blanket, which makes this book relatable.

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This text would be a great read-aloud for K-1 students. Because of its simple phrases, it would be a great book for beginning readers to read along to. Also because of its simplicity, words used in it could be paired with phonics and word recognition tasks. It would also be great to use with phonological awareness as the book has a subtle rhyme running all the way through it.

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Secrets of the Vegetable Garden (A Shine-A-Light Book) by Carron Brown

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Secrets of the Vegetable Garden (A Shine-A-Light Book) by Carron Brown

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This captivating book would be best used in K-2 classrooms. It is part of a series that incorporates hidden pictures that can only be revealed through the use of a flashlight, which would definitely grab a child's attention. It would be great to give students background knowledge about gardens if they do not have experience with one. It could also be used in a vocabulary activity as it is full of words specific to gardening.

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The Life and Times of Corn by Charles Micucci

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The Life and Times of Corn by Charles Micucci

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This fact-filled book would be best used in a 1st-3rd grade classroom. It includes relatively simple vocabulary so that children can understand all the fact within it. Therefore, this book would be best used to build background knowledge of history. It also gives insight to how plants grow, which is important knowledge. It would also be great to use in building comprehension strategies and showing students how to pick out important information.

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This would be an excellent read aloud to students in 1st-3rd grade. It would be ideal to use for building vocabulary as it covers topics such as dormancy and germination. It is also poetic, so it would be an excellent example of how to use prosdy while reading poetry. It does include some cursive writing, however, which is why it would be best used as a read-aloud.

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This Land is Your Land by Catherine Ciocchi

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This Land is Your Land by Catherine Ciocchi

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This educational novel would best be used in 1st-2nd grade classrooms. It would be a great book to use for vocabulary as it gives basic geographical terms such as coast, beach, and canyon. It could also build background knowledge to children who have never been to other parts of the country. It is also written in rhyme which could be used to teach phonological awareness and spelling.

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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood

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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood

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This incredible biography would be a great book to use in a 1st-3rd grade class. It would be a great insight to a different culture as Esquivel is a Mexican modern musician. Therefore, this book would be a great mirror/window for students to build upon their background knowledge. It is also full of onomatopoeia which could be used as a tool to teach prosody and how to incorporate those words into reading aloud.

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The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano by Elizabeth Rusch

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The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano by Elizabeth Rusch

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This historically accurate biography is great for 2nd-4th grade. It includes many musical terms, which could be implemented in vocabulary activities. Scince it is a biography, it is also great for building background knowledge. It is lengthy, so it could be broken up into segments depending on the classroom. It would also be excellent to build comprehension strategies since it is more lengthy and not too simple.

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Oscar and the Bat: A Book about Sound by Geoff Waring

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Oscar and the Bat: A Book about Sound by Geoff Waring

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This informative narrative is excellent for children in K-2 classrooms. The book begins with Oscar making an observation and asking a question for how to answer it, so this book would be great to use for comprehension. This could be done by presenting the question asked in the book and asking the class what kind of answers Oscar found. It could also be used to build background knowledge on how we hear.

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The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca

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The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca

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This incredible biography would be best used in a 1st-2nd grade classroom. The book used many great vocabulary words which can be taught and implemented in the classroom. This book also shares a very important message about how to live out your dreams, which is an excellent concept to instill into students. On top of that, it is written in rhyme and can be used to teach phonemes.

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

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This inspiring historical fiction would be best for 2nd-4th graders. It deals with the topic of slavery and can be used to build background knowledge on that subject. It would be important to emphasize equality and how to spread it. It is also written as a beautiful poem to build phonological awareness.

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Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

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Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

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This would be a great book for 3rd-5th grade. It would be better for older elementary students in order for the message of racial equality to be fully received. This would be incredible to use as a window to that time period and show students how far we have come yet how far we have still to go. Comprehension activities could also be paired with it to ensure the students understood its depth.

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This book inspired by a true story is great for grades 3-5. This is an excellent book to use as an example of nonviolent resistance and to teach the importance of equality. It can be used to build background knowledge of the country's past and how nonviolent means can make an incredible positive impact. This can also be used to build comprehension by creating activities to ensure the student understood the message.

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Have you Heard the Nesting Bird? by Rita Gray

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Have you Heard the Nesting Bird? by Rita Gray

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This book is great for children in 1st-2nd grade. What makes it such a great read-aloud is that it is full of onomatopoeia to engage the listeners. It can be used to recognize the sounds different letters make. It could also be used to demonstrate excellent prosody.

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A Mouthful of Onomatopoeia by Bette Blaisdell

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A Mouthful of Onomatopoeia by Bette Blaisdell

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This book is great to use in a 1st-2nd grade classroom. It is an excellent book to use to introduce onomatopoeia and its importance in language. The book is also written in rhyme which could further help children in this age range with phonological awareness. Since the book includes both onomatopoeia and rhyme, it is a great to have children repeat lines of the text to practice prosody.

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Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

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Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

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This entertaining story is excellent for children in K-2. The book is full of dialogue, so in order to fully capture the book's essence, excellent prosody must be used. In saying this, the book is a great example to show students how using inflection and different voice pitches can impact a story. This encourages students to phase out of reading like a robot.

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Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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This humorous, yet educational book is perfect for K-2nd graders. The humor serves to grab their attention while still providing information about how different germs work. This would be a great text to pull vocabulary from, and it even includes its own glossary. It can also be used to introduce the concept of personification since the book is told from the perspective of a Salmonella bacteria named Sam.

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Moonshot: the Flight of Apollo II by Brian Floca

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Moonshot: the Flight of Apollo II by Brian Floca

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This captivating retelling of the mission to the moon is best suited to read aloud to children in grades 3-4. It offers many great vocabulary words which can be used in a number of activities. It also would build incredible background knowledge on what astronauts do and even what it is like for their friends and family. This book is a great window to a world many children may not be familiar with.

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This simple yet informative book is great for children in 1st-3rd grade. This would be an excellent book when covering the phases of the moon and explaining vocabulary terms such as crescent, quarter, and gibbous. The pages have cutouts of the phases so that the changes are clear, which further helps understand the vocabulary. It is also written in rhyme and can be used as a prompt for an activity on poetry.

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Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs by Carol Murray

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Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs by Carol Murray

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This collection of poems about insects is great for grades 2-3. It can build upon phonological awareness while encouraging proper prosody. This could be used in a read and repeat activity so that the students not only hear how to read a poem, but also get the opportunity to practice. It is also packed full of facts about each featured insect, which is great to build the child's background knowledge.