Help your 1st grader develop of love for reading with these 20+ first grade read aloud chapter books! These stories will help their imagination soar.
Hello, friends! Six weeks into the school year, we have hit the ground running and read-aloud has quickly become one of our favorite moments of the day. Today I wanted to share about one of my favorite books for teaching and modeling Making Predictions as a reading strategy – Duck on a Bike by David Shannon. Last week...
Intentional reading is the backbone of a successful reading lesson, so choosing intentional read-alouds will help transform your ELA instruction! Here's how.
The Read Aloud Experience is for the whole family, and its designed to be low budget and low stress while exploring multiple subject areas.
These read aloud activities and resources are sure to keep your early learners engaged and excited for story time!
Do you read aloud to your students? Most of us do. Reading aloud to your students is a great way to model good reading and share books that may be beyond the reading level of the class you are teaching. Traditionally, read aloud consisted of the teacher with a book in her/his hand and the students sitting quietly listening to the story. If this is how you are doing read aloud, you are missing out on a HUGE teaching opportunity! ********************************************************************************* I wanted to use this post to share with you something new I have been doing in my class this year with my read aloud time. I have always taken the time each day to read aloud to my students. I teach 4th and 5th graders and find that time to be invaluable! Through read aloud I am able to model for my students fluency, thinking while reading, and so much more. I have always chosen the books I will be sharing with the class so that students are exposed to literature that they might not choose themselves or are not able to read on their own. The students listened while I read. I would think aloud, stop to ask questions, let students share their ideas, but mostly it was just me reading to them and them listening. It was good, but it lacked something. This summer I read this book... and it was like I had found the ANSWER. THIS was exactly how I had always wanted my reading workshop to run. Now, I'm going to be honest and tell you that I don't have it all going smoothly yet, but the one thing that is working out BRILLIANTLY is my interactive read-aloud time. At the beginning of the year... when the Back-to-School sales were going on, I purchased each of my students a reading journal. I covered each one with colored paper (except the fun black and white ones) and but labels with student names on them. Each journal was then divided into three sections: mini-lessons, read aloud, and reading response. The mini-lesson section is used for taking notes and practicing strategies that aide comprehension. For example, I taught my students how to make a quick sketch chart to keep track of the sequence of events in a story. Another strategy I shared with students is "story mapping". Students draw a map of the setting of a story and then write in events that happened in each part of the setting. Here is an example from Dexter the Tough: Students then take these strategies and use them with their own independent reading books. Here is a story map a student drew in her "Reading Response" journal sections while reading The Tale of Despereaux: Back to read aloud. One of the major changes I have made is that, when possible, each of my students has a copy of the book in his/her hand. I am reading aloud, but my students are reading along with me. Another big change is that I bring all of my students to the carpet and we sit in a discussion circle. Students bring their book, their journal, and a pencil. During the reading, we stop to discuss confusing parts of the story, make predictions, chart ideas and clues as to what is happening in the story. Here is the plot anchor chart we created and filled out while reading Dexter the Tough: This has been the most valuable change I have made to my teaching this year! Even though I do all of the reading, my students are now engaged in the text, raising their hands to share ideas, predictions and observations. It is truly interactive. I find I am doing most of my teaching through the read aloud now. We just finished a unit on recognizing and understanding figurative language and I am able to support that new learning during this 15-20 minute block of time. Using interactive read aloud with my class has allowed me to really engage all of my students in the books we read. We get to be involved in each other's thinking processes and insights and my students still get to hear fluent reading being modeled. Read aloud has become my students' favorite part of the day! It is a win-win for all of us! We just recently started reading "When I Reach You" as our read-aloud. In my next blog post I'll be sharing some of the AMAZING thinking and connections I am hearing from my students. Goose-bump moments I call them. Is there anything you have done differently this year that you are excited about? If so, I'd love to hear about it! Please comment below! Thank you for visiting!
Learn how to create effective interactive read aloud lesson plans with three simple steps to help develop students' reading strategies.
The Good Egg is such an important book for teachers to share with their students. This is why we made a FREE Lesson Plan to go with it!
These fun and simple Read Alouds and Crafts for Kindergarten will give you a ton of ideas for how to extend story time to center time!
Young readers will love this great book selection of 50 awesome first grade read alouds. From picture books to chapters books, this list has everything you need
Pick first grade read alouds picture books your child will LOVE! These 1st grade picture books are sure to be a new favorite!
Looking for engaging back-to-school books and read aloud activities? These are 3 picture great books to read during the first week of school!
Not only will your students love the these 5 spring read alouds and illustrations, they will have many opportunities to go back and think deeply about the text and story elements. Here is a quick overview of some of the best story elements from each spring story.
Extend your enjoyment of five favorite kindergarten read-alouds with this creative list of activities, crafts, themed play ideas, outings, and experiments.
My FAVORITE read aloud activities! No prep... just print and go. This resource focuses on NINE read alouds. Each book includes: *A simple lesson plan *TWO differentiated writing/drawing activities that correspond to the book These read aloud activities are perfect for: *Extending a read aloud *Incorporating writing and drawing into your reading instruction *Easy sub plans *Building comprehension and self to text connections The read alouds are: The Smart Cookie Wemberly Worried Happy Dreamer Beautiful Oops We're All Wonders Going Places The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors Enemy Pie The Paper Bag Princess These are MUST HAVES for primary if you don't already have them! CHECK OUT: Social Emotional Activities: No Prep Read Aloud Activities BUNDLE
