PERFECTLY PLANNED LESSONS & ACTIVITIES FOR THE 2024 - 2025 SCHOOL YEAR
Smart and Simple Resources for Your Favorite Back-to-School Books
5 Lesson Plans, 5 Extension Activities, 5 Vocabulary Resource Sets, and 2 Bonus Resources
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Exceptional Instruction Starts with a Well-Planned Read Aloud
The Back-to-School Read Aloud Bundle gives you the lesson plans and activities you need to turn your read aloud into an instructional power-house.
The resources included in the bundle are practical and research-based. They are designed to engage your students and build a classroom community of readers who can comprehend and enjoy every book you share - because in the end, that should be our goal.
Read alouds are an essential component of SoR aligned instruction
Make the First Few Weeks Easy with our Back-to-School Bundle
With lesson plans and activities perfectly paired to Back-to-School read alouds, you get to dodge all the stressful planning and jump straight into engaging, effective teaching.
You won't have to worry about aligning read-alouds to your instructional goals or searching for the right materials to engage your students. Instead, you'll have everything you need to set the stage for meaningful read alouds - starting on the very the first day of school.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL GET IN THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL BUNDLE
The Day You Begin Lesson Plan
The Day You Begin Ice-Breaker Activity
First Day Jitters Lesson Plan
First Day Jitters Writing Activity
All Are Welcome Lesson Plan
All Are Welcome All About Me Book
Chrysanthemum Lesson Plan
Chrysanthemum Name Game
School's First Day of School Lesson Plan
School's First Day of School Cause and Effect Match-Up Game
Vocabulary Resources for All Five Books
BONUS:
August and September Reading Challenges
Each reading challenge comes with a challenge board, goal setting prompts, reading log, and opportunities to reflect on the reading challenge. The booklet format of this resource makes it easy for students to track the books they read every week.
This is Your Shortcut to Purposeful Read Alouds
The Back-to-School season is officially upon us and we're guessing your to-do list is about a mile long right now. There's so much you want to get ready for the first few days of school and so little time!
Sure, starting the year off with a well-planned read aloud sounds wonderful but first you've got to set up your bulletin boards, figure out how to arrange your desks, untangle the headphones, update the class website, prep those emergency sub plans (because life), oh - and you've got to prep nametags for the first day of school - you can't forget the nametags!
So the idea of turning your back-to-school read alouds into a time for purposeful instruction isn't exactly on your radar - even though you know it should be!
Plus, with all the new research coming out around the best way to use children's books in your classroom, you're not even entirely sure WHAT to do!!
Which is why we're here to help. According to leading research, read alouds are an essential component of SoR aligned instruction. They are one of the most powerful tools in your classroom - especially when you have lesson plans and activities that let you use them to teach key reading skills and strategies.
Because your daily read alouds can (and should be) so much more than just Storytime, it's important to choose your read alouds and plan your instruction with intention.
Everything You Need to Teach with the Best Back-to-School Books
Planning the Perfect Read Aloud
Here's what it takes to plan a purposeful read aloud:
- You've got to figure out which books to read
- Consider which words might stand in the way of your students' comprehension
- Think about how you'll activate their prior knowledge so they can engage with the text right away
- Study the text and figure out how to connect the read aloud to your instructional goals
- Then you have to make ALL the resources to support your instructional goals
It's a lot to think about. And still, it's work worth doing.
But what if you didn't have to do all the work? What if you could simply choose the books you want to teach with and trust that everything else was done for you?
Sound too good to be true? It's not.
We know how busy teachers are, but being busy doesn't mean you can't give your students what they need.
That's why we created the ultimate set of read aloud resources for the best Back-to-School books - because great teaching shouldn’t require endless hours of planning and prep.
Our resources are your shortcut to delivering impactful, engaging read alouds so you can hit the ground running, without spending hours planning, prepping, and thinking about how to make the most of your storytime.
