Last month, we asked homeschoolers around the state for their favorite read aloud books to encourage and support other families. We received so many responses that we are breaking it into two sections and part 2 includes how to support your children’s learning during read-aloud experiences along with more read-aloud recommendations.
We hope this provides you with enjoyable ways to enrich your child’s literacy.
Be sure to participate in our 2025 Reading Challenge each month when we will encourage exploration in different genres, subjects, and authors!
Benefits
Several studies show that reading aloud, even with our older children, encourages and supports several literacy and comprehension skills such as
- Foundational literacy skills
- Reading as enjoyment
- Strengthen bonds between child and reader
- Expression and inflection
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
- Assessment
- Visualization
- Reading fluency
- Pronunciation
- Background knowledge
- Listening and memory skills
- Encourages awareness and empathy
- Deepens active thinking
Research
EdSource: Study says reading aloud to children, more than talking, builds literacy, July 2015
Research Gate: Reading aloud to children – the evidence, June 2008
Book Suggestions
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleishman
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stewart Little by EB White
Collection of poetry by Jack Prelutzky
Echo Mountain and Wolf Hallow by Lauren Wolk
Fish by Gregory Mone
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Herb Fairies series by Kimberly Gallagher
Holes by Louis Sachar
Kingdom of Wrenly by Jordan Quinn
Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler
