Read aloud lessons

What are interactive read alouds? Tips and tricks for interactive read aloud planning with resources and teaching ideas for elementary.

Looking for upper elementary first day of school read alouds and activities? This list of favorite picture books and the free activities that come with them will help you build an inclusive classroom community that values diversity. First week of lesson plans done!

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!

Learn how to introduce and teach visualization as a reading strategy to help your students build stronger reading comprehension skills.

Learn how to create effective interactive read aloud lesson plans with three simple steps to help develop students' reading strategies.

The Day You Begin is a wonderful picture book to read aloud in your classroom. Learn how to use these book activities to help you celebrate diversity in the classroom. Check out The Day You Begin lesson plan with discussion questions to engage all your students.

Are you looking for the best read alouds for 1st and 2nd grade this fall? Check out this list of 6 books to read aloud this September. Learn how to plan lessons and activities to go along with them. Your kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students will love these fun and engaging books. Read more here!

Looking to kick your read aloud lessons up a notch? These interactive read aloud lessons have stopping points and higher order thinking questions for 64 of my favorite books in first and second grade! Each book also has a reading response sheet as well as a writing response sheet! - Susan Jones Teaching

Today I'll be sharing ideas for making your guided reading routine a bit more exciting. Because if you do it every single day in the exact same way, it can get a little tired, right?

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…