Read alouds with activities

Interactive Read Alouds allow us to teach a broad range of standards within one text. This month's read aloud lessons focus on the Key Ideas and Details and Craft and Structure standards in Literature for Second Grade. They cover answering questions using key details from the text, recounting the story, determining the central message, describing how characters respond to major events and challenges, and describing the overall structure of the story. The books were chosen based on the needs…

Dragon Love Tacos Activities, Lessons, and Craft Ideas for kindergarten and first grade. Check out our reading comprehension lessons and craftivity!

Teaching responsibility with What If Everybody Did That? is an impactful way to remind students to appreciate our world.

By using interactive read alouds, you can teach and develop reading comprehension within your kindergarten and first grade classroom. Here are some of my favorite read aloud books to use!

Looking for meaningful fall read alouds to use with your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students? Make the most of your read aloud time with this picture book, "Those Darn Squirrels" in your elementary classroom. This blog post shares a bunch of different ways you can use this read aloud with upper elementary students and includes a free resource to use with the book too. Click the pin to read the blog post NOW!

Help teach kids to stay positive, work on social-emotional learning, and develop a growth mindset with The Most Magnificent Thing read-aloud.

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Help your students practice conversation skills with the picture book - Quiet Please, Owen McPhee! This read aloud for the elementary classroom is perfect to teach an important SEL skill.

Social emotional books are extremely powerful for elementary students as they help explain things in simple ways that just make sense to kids. In this post, I am sharing over 20 social emotional read alouds you can use during your classroom meeting time or morning meetings. These social emotional books for kids help students learn how to regulate their emotions and feelings. Having books like these in your classroom library will help empower kids.

Teaching growth mindset can be done with read-alouds! Rosie's Glasses is a great book for this. Get ideas for using this book to teach being positive.