Ultimate Read-Aloud Collection Grade 3

Award-winning children's author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books. Central to Laminack's message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of “Best Friend Books”- a small, carefully curated collection that you turn to repeatedly for specific teaching purposes.

You'll also find:

• 5 fiction “Best Friend Books” selected by Lester L. Laminack (5 copies each)
  
  
  
  • Bigmama's
  
  
  • If the Shoe Fits
  
  
  • Mr. George Baker
  
  
  • Enemy Pie
  
  
  • Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
  
  
  
  


• 5 non-fiction “Best Friend Books” selected by Lester L. Laminack (5 copies each)
  
  
  
  • National Geographic Kids Readers: Mummies
  
  
  • A Butterfly is Patient
  
  
  • Real-Life Monsters: Scaly, Slippery Creatures
  
  
  • Danger! Volcanoes
  
  
  • The Moon
  
  
  
  


• 5 full-color, multi-panel teaching cards, with detailed lesson plans and suggestions for “first visits” and “home visits”-helping students discover the magic of literary language.


• An online resource bank that features Lester modeling a read-aloud that highlights exquisite language and intriguing literary elements, and underscores the profound instructional value of literature in the classroom; also included: downloadable graphic organizers and resources for families.


• 128-page professional book, The Ultimate Read-Aloud Resource, 2nd Edition by Lester L. Laminack.