Read Aloud, Think Aloud Library
Read Aloud, Think Aloud is the centerpiece of the iLit instructional model. During this portion of the lesson, the teacher will read aloud ongrade level texts or play professionally recorded audio of those texts. There are three longer Read Aloud titles in each level - two novels and
one extended nonfiction work. Read Aloud, Think Aloud also includes a wide range of shorter texts - plays, poems, articles, short stories,
informational texts, and content area readers. Below you wil see the Read Aloud, Think Aloud anchor texts for each level along with the
author, genre, Lexile level and content area connection.
Level A
Title
A Battle Over Borders
A New Day
A Shooting Star from China
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
Animals in Our World
Animals Ways of Life
Because of Winn-Dixie
Biomimicry: From Biology to Technology
Black Beauty
Changes on Earth
Earth's Ecosystems
Fossil Seekers
Give Me Books, Give Me Wings
Hurricane Sandy Aftermath: A Photo Essay
Ideas That Shaped Egyptian Life
In this Short Life
It's a Mean, Mean World
Jacques Cousteau: Ocean Pioneer
Japanese Tsunami: Stories of Survival
Knucklehead
Living With Urban Wildlife
Midway Atoll: The Pacific Garbage Patch
Minerals and Rocks
Mudslide
Night of the Twisters
Ode to the City
Oliver Twist (Level 3)
Author
Genre
Lexile*
Content Area
Rena Korb
Helen Keller
--Michelle Y. Green
--Erika Alexander
Kate DiCamillo
--Anna Sewell
Cassandra Jenkins
Barbara Fierman
Laura Buller
Myra Cohn Livingston
--Rena Korb
Emily Dickinson
------Jon Scieszka
----Audrey N. Delmar
--Ivy Ruckman
Roger Bonair-Agard
Charles Dickens
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
fiction
poetry
fiction
900L
1050L
710L
860L
1090L
670L
610L
740L
950L
590L
580L
810L
890L
--890L
1020L
750L
820L
860L
750L
990L
1140L
740L
290L
790L
--620L
----Science
--Science
Science
--Science
--Science
Science
Science
--Science
Social Studies
--Social Studies
--Social Studies
--Science
Science
Science
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* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
Olympic Champions
Remember
Sahara Special
Scene Two
Teenage Girl Found Alive 15 Days After Haiti Earthquake
The Chumash People of California
The New Neighbor
The Quarrel
There Will Come Soft Rains
Try It!
Venus and Serena: Champion Sisters
Wayfarer, There Is No Path
What are Tornadoes?
Lynne Blanche and Claire Daniel
Joy Harjo
Esme Raji Codell
Don Abramson & Robert Kausal
--Stephanie Sigue
Sharon Jennings
Eleanor Farjeon
Sara Teasdale
Margaret Cleveland
--Antonio Machado
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biography
fiction
fiction
drama
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
fiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
740L
460L
660L
--880L
870L
670L
560L
1130L
670L
660L
940L
770L
--------Social Studies
Social Studies
------------Science
Author
Genre
Lexile*
Content Area
Gary Gramling
Martha Brooks
Barbara Fifer
Ray Villareal
Ray Villareal
Lorraine Boulos
--Margaret Carney
Mary Miller
Gene Fehler
Gene Fehler
Catherine Dimartino
--Andrew Clements
Andrew Clements
Roger Bonair-Agard
Andy Tang
Melissa Riggio
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nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
fiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
fiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
940L
740L
890L
650L
650L
840L
1460L
720L
800L
1180L
1180L
1050L
920L
830L
830L
--800L
830L
810L
920L
Social Studies
--Social Studies
--------Science
Science
----Social Studies
--------Science
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Level B
Title
2012 SportsKids of the Year: Conner and Cayden Long
A Boy and His Dog
Adventure in the Americas
Alamo Wars
Alamo Wars
Beating the Odds
Behind Taylor Swift's Songs
Bird-Watching
Changing Matter
Clutch Hitter
Clutch Hitter
Early American Alliances
Extraordinary Athletes
Frindle
Frindle
Groom Routine
Human Body Systems
I Have Down Syndrome: Know Me Before You Judge Me
If You Could Change the World
Inequality in America
* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
Justice Speaks
Kickoff!
Mudslide
Nicholas Cobb
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
One Among Many
People Equal
Puppy Raisers
Rocket Man
Rudolph Ran and the World Went Wild
Secrets of Karate
Seeds
Shake It Off and Take a Step Up
Singing Big and Loud
Sports Reporting: The Real Scoop
Standing Out From the Crowd
Suppose
Taking a Stand for Civil Rights
Tales of Famous Heroes
Tales of Famous Heroes
The Echoing Green
The Fabulous Perpetual Motion Machine
The Growing United States
The Hardest Lap
The Magic of Special Effects
The Mystery of Sound
The People Who Gave Us the U.S. Constitution
The Scoop on Gossip
The Stormi Giovanni Club
Under Attack
We Need to Go To School
Winners
Winners
Your Incredible Growing Body
--Tiki and Ronde Barber
--David L. Harrison
Leon Watson
Malala Yousafzal
James Berry
--Ruth Ashby
M.B. Roberts
--Javaka Steptoe
Lorraine Boulos
Alan Held
----Siv Cedering
--Peter and Bonnie Roop
Peter and Bonnie Roop
William Blake
Don Abramson
Cynthia Clampitt
Brian Arleth
--Teri Kanefield
Kristin Cashore
--Linda R. Diamond
Peter Jailall
Tanya Roberts-Davis
Sara Holbrook
Sara Holbrook
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* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
nonfiction
fiction
fiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfic
poetry
drama
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
drama
poetry
nonfiction
poetry
poetry
nonfiction
810L
760L
290L
950L
880L
820L
250L
790L
870L
860L
620L
570L
790L
870L
650L
910L
1850L
700L
820L
820L
890L
--790L
750L
650L
860L
780L
880L
--780L
800L
480L
480L
910L
Social Studies
--------Social Studies
------Social Studies
----------Social Studies
--Social Studies
--------Social Studies
--------------Social Studies
----Science
Level C
Title
Ancient Greece and Modern Culture
Babes in the Woods
Birdfoot's Grampa
Buffalo Dusk
Canada Geese "Gassed"
Changing Weather
Computer
Computer Unlocks Autistic Teen's Exceptional Voice
Deep-Sea Danger
Discovering The Old Stone Age
Do You Think As an Economical Person?
Don't Call Me Hero
Douglas's Win Sends Message to Kids
Eleanor Roosevelt Takes a Stand
Follow A River
Gabriel Angelo: A 12-Year-Old and His Trumpet
Gaming
Heroes of the Environment
High-Tech Pets
How Plants Grow and Change
How Smart Are Your Clothes?
Human Impact!
I Want to Unplug
Ideas That Shaped Egyptian Life
Immigration at Angel Island
Kids On Strike!
Light
Living with Weather and Climate
Marian Anderson
Morning Traffic
Mudslide
My Computer Ate My Homework
Robot Explorers
Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
Seeking a Better Life
Author
Genre
Lexile*
Content Area
Stephanie Sigue
John Burroughs
Joseph Bruchac
Carl Sandburg
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Jennifer Coates-Conroy
Gwendolyn Brooks
Valerie Hauch
Judy Freed
Ellen B. Cutler
--Ray Villareal
Adam Clark
--Jane Manners
Caroline Chen
Sara Holbrook
Harriet Rohmer
--Jane St. John
----Jabiz Raisdana
Rena Korb
--Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Marianne Lenihan
----Christopher De Paola
--Ken Nesbitt
--Brenda Woods
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nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
drama
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
drama
fiction
poetry
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
940L
930L
1390L
920L
1270L
860L
--1120L
--950L
1040L
690L
1250L
1330L
520L
850L
860L
1070L
900L
840L
860L
960L
730L
890L
910L
920L
760L
660L
1040L
--290L
960L
990L
660L
930L
Social Studies
--------Science
--Social Studies
Science
Science
Social Studies
----Social Studies
Science
------Science & Technology
Science
Science & Technology
----Social Studies
----Science
Science
--------Science & Technology
--Social Studies
* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
Showing the Way
Skateboarders
Tech Inventions
The King of the United States
The Ride
Video Games Are Good for You!
Waikiki's Story
What's Real?
When Small Voices Unite
Zora and Me
Unknown
Sara Holbrook
--Jane Medina
Robert Piotrowski
--Melanie Jae Martin
Sara Holbrook
--Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
poetry
fiction
nonfiction
fiction
poetry
nonfiction
fiction
1080L
500L
1020L
730L
530L
840L
960L
1190L
950L
860L
----Science & Technology
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Author
Genre
Lexile*
Content Area
--Ellen B. Cutler
Budhos, Marina
Larry Verstraete
Steve Hartman
Erik Olsen
--Camille La Vouche
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
1010L
1050L
790L
960L
740L
1330L
810L
560L
--Social Studies
--------Science
Science
---
nonfiction
940L
Social Studies
Ellen B. Cutler
Naomi Shihab Nye
Roger Bonair-Agard
Joyce A. Churchill
Nicholas Keung
--Jane St. John
--Gloria Skurzyski
--McCollum, Sean
nonfiction
poetry
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
1050L
990L
--900L
1300L
930L
840L
910L
950L
920L
840L
940L
Social Studies
----Science
--Social Studies
Science
Social Studies
--Social Studies
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Level D
Title
An Awful Lot to Live For
Art's Inspiration
Ask Me No Questions
At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times
Autistic Teen's Hoop Dreams Come True
Bahia Bakari: The Miracle Girl
Black Days for Blue Whales
Classifying Plants and Animals
Cyberbullying: Social Media Becomes the New School
Yard for Bullies
Discovering The Old Stone Age
Famous
Fast
Fossil Detectives
Helping Hands
Hooked on Cell Phones
How Plants Grow and Change
Immigration at Angel Island
In the Shadows
Inequality in America
Into the Death Zone: A Mount Everest Adventure
It Could Happen to You
* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
Japan Nuke Workers Risk Their Lives, Garner Nation's
Respect
Julius Caesar (Level 3)
Lake Ontario Crossing: Donations Kept Swimmer
Annaleise Carr Going
Light
Many Worlds, One Team
Mudslide
New Country, New School
Newton and Gravity
Old Enough to Vote?
Out of Many
Riding With Rosa
Robots That Work
Save Our Earth
Sea-Fever
Taking Action
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Circuit
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
The Sick Lion and the Ant and the Grasshopper
The Wendigo
The Word on Bullying (epub file empty)
Trino's Choice
Virtual War
What's That Down There?
Oren Dorell
nonfiction
1340L
Social Studies
William Shakespeare
Tim Alamenciak
drama
nonfiction
--1060L
--Social Studies
Marianne Lenihan
------Stephanie Wilder
--Barack Obama
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
--Sharon Stewart
John Masefield
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
Francisco Jimenez
Walter Dean Myers
--Ogden Nash
--Diane Gonzales
Gloria Skurzynski
Adrian Mitchell
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
poetry
fiction
nonfiction
folktale
poetry
nonfiction
fiction
fiction
fiction
760L
970L
290L
1020L
820L
1030L
1350L
710L
900L
660L
1400L
970L
830L
720L
1030L
970L
490L
1010L
780L
760L
550L
Science
Social Studies
--Social Studies
Science
Social Studies
Social Studies
--Science & Technology
Science
--Social Studies
----Social Studies
----Social Studies
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Level D
Title
Author
Genre
Lexile*
Content Area
Accidental Love
Afghan Girls Stay in School Despite Attacks
Almost Astronauts
Among the Hidden
Battling Violence with Violins
Becoming a Melting Pot
Changing Times: Women in the Early Twentieth Century
Gary Soto
Paul Wiseman
Tanya Lee Stone
Margaret Haddix
Anna-Kaisa Walker
Joshua Nissenbaum
Kristin Cashore
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
870L
990L
820L
800L
1110L
110L
700L
--Social Studies
Science
----Social Studies
Social Studies
* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
Danger! Children At Work
Dutiful
Early Warning System
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Freak the Mighty
Fulfilling Teacher Expectations
Got Butterflies? Find Out Why
I Have Down Syndrome: Know Me Before You Judge Me
Jane of the Jungle
Katherine Switzer Breaking Barriers
Marching to Their Own Beat
Million Man March
Mudslide
Ode to School
Phobias: Beyond Fear
Preparing for the Flu
Privacy
Remember the Removal
Reptile Adaptations
Romeo and Juliet (Level 3)
Schooled
Suzy and Leah
Telemedicine
The Schoolboy
We Shall Overcome
We've Got a Job
Sharon Franklin
Margaret Atwood
Tilly Smith
Marion Blumenthal Lazan & Lila Perl
Rodman Philbrick
----Melissa Riggio
Kate Wong
----Maya Angelou
--Nadia Kim
----Robert William Service
Will Chavez
--William Shakespeare
Gordon Korman
Jane Yolen
--William Blake
--Cynthia Levinson
* Titles with a Lexile indicated by "---" are currently being calculated with Metametrics' Lexile analyzer.
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
fiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
fiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
poetry
nonfiction
nonfiction
drama
fiction
fiction
nonfiction
poetry
fiction
nonfiction
900L
1040L
990L
1080L
1000L
990L
1120L
830L
1050L
810L
1040L
420L
290L
2360L
880L
1100L
1040L
1140L
1020L
--590L
560L
970L
1030L
920L
1020L
Social Studies
--Science
------Science
Science
--Social Studies
--Social Studies
----Science
Science
----Science
------Science & Technology
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