Read alouds with activities

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!

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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!

Hey elementary teachers! The picture book Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw is a great read aloud to share with 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders for a diversity lesson. We at Clutter-Free Classroom knew we had to add it to our Starts With a Story collection, which is a library of book companions that are filled with fun lesson ideas, teaching tips and worksheets. Teachers have everything they need to deliver engaging lessons! Learn about this book and the related printable…

After the Fall by Dan Santat is part of Clutter-Free Classroom’s Starts With a Story collection, which is a library of printable and digital resources for students in 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade. This picture book is great for teaching the following concepts and ideas: persevering, growth mindset and identifying theme. Your elementary students will love this read aloud and the related activities, worksheets and lesson ideas that are in the book companion. Scoop them up here!

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

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.

Check out 20 of my favorite books to read aloud in November, all about Thanksgiving, turkeys, being thankful, and family.