Selecting the Last Book I Will Read Aloud to my Fifth Graders

My teachers reading aloud to me helped me fall in love with reading. I remember my third grade teacher Ms. Frey, reading aloud to us each day on the carpet. Through read aloud she introduced our class to both Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume. In fourth grade Mrs. Collins read aloud Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet. I do not think I would have become a reader or a te…