Interactive Read Aloud Yearly Calendar for Grade 2
August/September
Comedy and Humor: Never Spit on Your Shoes (Cazet)
Autobiography and Biography: This Land is Your Land (Jakobsen and Guthrie)
Poetry: Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young (Prelutsky)
Author Study-Doreen Cronin-Fiction/Animal Stories
Thump Quack Moo
Duck for President
Dooby Dooby Moo
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack
Click, Clack, Moo
Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Autobiography /Biography: Caldecott (2004) The Man Who Walked Between the
Towers (Gerstein)
October
Fantasy: Caldecott (1964) Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)
Poetry: It’s Halloween (Prelutsky)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein)
Nonfiction: Halloween (Trueit)
Short Story/Mystery: A Newberry Halloween (Greenberg)
Fantasy: Newberry (2004) The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a
Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (DiCamillo)
Fiction/Chapter Book: Charlotte’s Web (White)
Fiction: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett)
The Very Hungary Caterpillar (Carle)
The Giving Tree (Silverstein)
November
Folktales: Caldecott (2002) The Three Pigs (Wiesner)
Folktales/Culture and Diversity: The Talking Eggs (Souci)
Realistic Fiction: In November (Rylant)
Election Day (McNamara)
Nonfiction: If You Sailed on the Mayflower (McGovern)
Historical Fiction: Squanto’s Journey: the Story of the First Thanksgiving (Bruchac)
Fiction: If you were at the First Thanksgiving (Kamma)
House Mouse, Senate Mouse (Barnes)
Realistic Fiction: Newberry (1992) Shiloh (Naylor)
Poetry: It’s Thanksgiving (Prelutsky)
December
Realistic Fiction/Short Stories: Children of Christmas (Rylant)
Folktales: Caldecott (1986) The Polar Express (Van Allsburg)
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Burton)
Poetry: It’s Christmas (Prelutsky)
Multicultural Nonfiction: Seven Candles for Kwanzaa (Pinkney)
It’s Hanukkah! (Modesitt)
Fiction: Dream Snow (Carle)
Olive, the Other Reindeer (Walsh)
Realistic Fiction: The Trees of the Dancing Goats (Polacco)
Nonfiction: I am Snow (Marzollo)
January
Families
Nonfiction: Families (Norris)
Fiction: Me and My Family Tree (Sweeney)
Culture and Diversity: I Go With My Family to Grandma’s (Levinson)
I Love My Family (Hudson)
Families are Different (Pellegrini)
Folktales: Family of Earth (Schimmel)
Poetry: It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing! (Prelutsky)
A Light in the Attic (Silverstein)
Realistic Fiction: Newberry (2001) A Year Down Yonder (Peck)
Adventure/Comedy and Humor: A Long Way From Chicago (Peck)
February
Autobiography/Biography: Abe’s Honest Words (Rappaport)
Nonfiction: Meet George Washington (Heilbroner)
The Groundhog Book of Facts and Fiction (Billen-Frye)
Langston Hughes (McKissack)
Fiction: If You’ll Be My Valentine (Rylant)
Historical Fiction: Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration (2005) Ellington Was
Not a Street (Shange)
Poetry: Make a Joyful Sound (Slier)
It’s Valentines Day (Prelutsky)
Black Is Brown Is Tan (Adoff)
Folktales: Coretta Scott King Award (1986) The People Could Fly: American Black
Folktales (Hamilton)
Biography: A Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Adler)
March
Realistic Fiction/Chapter Book: Newberry (1999) Holes (Sachar)
Poetry: Falling Up (Silverstein)
Moon, have You Met My Mother? (Kuskin)
Historical Fiction: The Keeping Quilt (Polaccco)
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride (Ryan)
Folktales: Tatterhood and Other Tales (Phelps)
Nonfiction: St. Patrick’s Day (Gibbons)
Rhyming/Myths: The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever! (Slater)
Fiction: Caldecott (1995) Smoky Night (Bunting)
Fantasy: Caldecott (1982) Jumanji (Van Allsberg)
April
Nonfiction: Let’s Get Ready for Earth Day (Douglas)
Arbor Day (Bennett)
Fiction/Comedy and Humor: The Dumb Bunnies Easter (Pilkey)
Nonfiction: Easter (Sanders)
Culture and Diversity: Let’s Get Ready for Passover (Douglas)
Author Study-Jack Prelutsky-Poetry for Poetry Month
Me I Am!
The Sheriff of Rottenshot
What a Day it Was at School
Monday’s Troll
The New Kid on the Block
A Pizza the Size of the Sun
My Parent’s Think I’m Sleeping
May
Fiction: Newberry (2007) The High Power of Lucky (Patron)
Nonfiction: Fiesta! (Behrens)
Memorial Day (Ditchfield)
Fiction: Caldecott (1994) Grandfather’s Journey (Say)
The Great Blue House (Banks)
Historical Fiction: Americana Adventure (Graland)
Fantasy: The Flying Dragon Room (Wood)
Fiction/Culture and Diversity: Grandma Summer (Jessup)
Sun Dance, Water Dance (London)
Poetry: Hey You! C’mere A Poetry Slam (Swados)