February 4th World Read Aloud Day

World Read Aloud Day was founded on the belief that stories are the key to creating positive social change, ... studies have shown that reading aloud to children has been linked to the development of vocabulary and comprehension, 

strengthening emotional bonds and enhancing focus.

I saw a question on a Facebook forum asking for books to share with teachers for National or World Read Aloud Day. The person who asked for book ideas set a couple of criteria but I am going to disregard these - Australian and published in the last five years. 

For my scenario I am going to imagine a school with twenty teachers. I don't really believe in one size fits all so I am going to group my books into four sections - Kindergarten; Grades 1 and 2; Grades 3 and 4; and Grades 5 and 6 and I will put five books per group = 20 books.  I will put some wonderful Australian titles here but also lots of international ones too. Because hopefully my scenario school has a well-stocked school library, I will put books that are not new - that is the joy of a library - you can find older books that are truly gems. In terms of gems the person asking for suggestions also used the dreaded word 'quality'. I won't go into that right now, but this is a word that makes me shudder. I am sure I could list several hundred books for this post - these are titles that I blogged recently. I previously talked about World Read Aloud day in 2018.

Kindergarten

Little Bear's Little Boat

Two for me, one for you

Happy Birthday Moon

Puffling (or you could read Lucy Goosey)

Owl Babies

Grades 1 and 2

Where does Thursday go?

Lizzy and the Cloud

Lisette's Green Sock

Strictly no Elephants

Dimity Dumpty (or another book by Bob Graham)

Grades 3 and 4

Shelter

Robber Girl

The King and Nothing

The Suitcase

Extra Yarn

Grades 5 and 6

Mr Lepron's Mystery Soup

Herman and Rosie

Snow White in New York

Sparrow Girl

As Time went by

A Brief History of World Read Aloud Day

When was this event established: World Read Aloud Day was founded in 2010 by the nonprofit LitWorld. Following a trip to Kibera in Nairobi, LitWorld founder Pam Allyn realized how important the power of stories was to children around the globe. So, she started World Read Aloud Day to make a positive impact on the world.

How has it developed since then: Since its establishment, World Read Aloud Day has been celebrated by millions of people through 170 countries. 

There are some resources here.

In answer to the question and using the very restrictive criteria from the original Facebook post here are the two sets of nine titles that I suggested (note one is older than five years but I snuck it in anyway). You can pop any of these titles into my search bar for more details.