Readit
| Series
Information |
Curricular
Areas:
Language Arts, Literature, and Art |
| Length:
16/15-Minute Programs |
| Grade
Levels: 3 |
| Teacher's
Guide |
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In
Readit, storytellers, artists drawing illustrations and even animated
frogs help third graders make the transition from picture books
to short novels. The series features more than thirty books chosen
for their high level of interest to children. Classics pepper the
collection of contemporary favorites. As the series progresses,
so do the reading levels. Geared especially to the different abilities
within this age group, the programs offer books to challenge the
average reader and to entice the reluctant one. Storyteller, John
Robbins, leaves the stories unfinished, to encourage children to
discover the endings by reading for themselves.
Episode Descriptions
1
Blue Moose by D. Manus Pinkwater; The Return Of The Moose by D.
Manus Pinkwater — An unusual moose becomes Mr. Breton’s
headwaiter and then turns his life upside down by writing a bestseller.
2 My Robot Buddy by Alfred Slote; My Trip To Alpha I by Alfred
Slote — Jack Jameson and his mechanical friend come face-to-face
with a robotnapper.
3 Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? by Patricia Giff — Strange
noises from the apartment next door plunge junior detective Abigail
Jones into something big.
4 My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett — Elmer
Elevator runs away and outsmarts wild animals to rescue a little
dragon.
5 The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner —
The Alden orphans make an old boxcar their home and support themselves
with elbow grease and ingenuity.
6 Deadwood City by Edward Packard; The Third Planet From Altair
by Edward Packard — In these "branch plot" books,
the reader makes decisions at many turning points changing the plot
each time.
7 The Lucky Stone by Lucille Clifton; Who’s In Charge Of
Lincoln? by Dale Fife — Stories how a wonderful stone may
change a girl’s life and adventures when a sack of stolen money
that falls into a boy’s hands.
8 The Rise And Fall Of Ben Gizzard by Richard Kennedy —
An old Indian predicts the death of scoundrel.
9 Trouble For Lucy by Carla Stevens — Lucy Stewart leaves
her wagon train to search for her puppy, Finn.
10 The Comeback Dog by Jane Resh Thomas — Mourning his
beloved pet, Captain, Daniel brings a battered, dying dog home to
nurse back to health.
11 Give Us A Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole by Sheila Greenwald —
Rosy knows how badly she plays the violin, but when Uncle Ralph
promotes her in a book, people treat her like a celebrity.
12 Groundhog’s Horse by Joyce Rockwood — Groundhog,
a Cherokee boy, goes alone to rescue his unusual mare, Midnight,
from the Cherokees who stole her.
13 A Grandmother For The Orphelines by Natalie Savage Carlson
— Josine, the littlest orphan in an old French castle,
wants a grandmother so much that she locks an old woman in the dungeon.
14 Twenty And Ten by Claire Hutchet Bishop — Hidden
by twenty other children in occupied France, ten Jewish children
are safe from the Nazis — only if the others can keep silent.
15 The Whistling Teakettle by Mindy Skolsky; The Witch Of Fourth
Street by Myron Levoy — Hannah’s gift frightens robbers
from her grandmother's candy store. In The Witch of Fourth Street,
Cathy has to choose between giving a daily penny to the monkey she
loves or giving it to a woman she thinks is a witch.
16 Ben And Me by Robert Lawson — Amos, a mouse who lived
in Benjamin Franklin’s hat, tells who was really responsible
for many of Franklin’s famous achievements.
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