Finding fun and engaging back to school ideas and activities can be a challenge. As you try to set up your rules and routines for the beginning of the school year, there are a lot of demands on your time.
Getting ready for open house and meet the teacher, curriculum night, and setting up your perfect theme. Add in the latest in trying to think about setting up your classroom for social distancing, and it’s even more difficult! It’s A LOT! Here I’ve compiled my favorite resources and ideas to help you get back to school stress-free!
Back to School Books
At back to school time, there are a few things you are looking to accomplish with your interactive read alouds:
- Books for the first day of school
- Learn student names – I have a great list of the best books about names
- Teach rules and expectations – I have some great books about rules and expections for back to school
- Find out about their summer vacation – I have some great books about summer you can check out
- Focus on social emotional learning – There are a TON of great SEL books for kids
Back to School Books by Grade Level
- Kindergarten
- 1st grade
- 2nd grade
- 3rd grade
- 4th grade
- 5th grade
Better Interactive Read Aloud Strategies
Looking to figure our interactive read alouds or add more strategies to your toolbelt? I’ve got you covered!
If you’re looking to add to your interactive read aloud strategies, you could see I get more students talking during discussions. One of the interactive read aloud strategies that I really focus on is sentence frames. There are plenty of other quick wins to make your discussions and read alouds better as well!
Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plans
There is a lot that goes into interactive read aloud lesson plans. Choosing the right book is certainly the first step.
One way that you can make your lesson plans easier is by making Google read aloud lessons and activities! You can reuse and tweak them each year or for each class depending on their needs.
Read Aloud Lesson Plans For the WHOLE YEAR
Making lesson plans can be time-consuming and stressful, though. If you’re looking to go into this next school year without stress, you can become a member.
MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES:
- Over 400 lessons for grades K-5 with DIGITAL COMPONENTS
- Each lesson includes:
- week-long lesson plan
- discussion questions
- comprehension questions
- suggested discussion strategies
- reading response pages and graphic organizers
- anchor chart ideas
- Google Slides for teacher or student use
- Google Docs and Slides response pages
- Digital graphic organizers
- Over 200 lessons available in Spanish and English
- Private members-only community forums to share ideas, collaborate, problem-solve and chat
- Monthly Member Calls + Book Giveaways!
- More Free Time, Less Time Planning
- Immediate access to all new lesson plans added monthly
How do you get ready for back to school?
How will you make this year the best yet? I’d love to be a small part of your success and hopefully give you some new ideas and tricks to try with your kids!
Whether you teach Kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth or even sixth grade, I’ve got some new strategies for you to try. If you teach in a traditional English-only classroom, ESL, bilingual, dual language immersion or in the library, we’re going to make this year the best, most stress-free one yet.
Are you a resource teacher, self-contained classroom teacher, interventionist, reading specialist or librarian? This back to school time is going to be awesome!
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