Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
Looking for the best social justice children’s books? These social justice picture books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Books with lesson plans and activities linked. Picture books about various social justice topics like Indigenous rights / Native American rights, Black history, Asian American Pacific Islander heritage and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third,… Read More
Looking for the best Jewish children’s books? These Jewish picture books for elementary students are engaging for primary and upper elementary kids. Books with lesson plans and activities linked. Picture books with Jewish characters both fiction and nonfiction from various moments throughout history like World War 2, immigrants and more for your kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade… Read More
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Looking for the best children’s books about Halloween? Look no further! These children’s Halloween books are sure to be favorites for your kids or students. Plenty of spooky books that are some of the best selling children’s Halloween books of all time. If you’re a member of the Picture Book Brain Trust Community, you already have access to EVERY lesson plan… Read More
hese are 2 first grade reading rubrics that on 1 page list all of the Common Core literature and informational text standards that is excellent for conferencing and to see growth in the standards over time. What’s on the rubrics? RL 3.1-10 on one page RIT 3.1-10 on one page 7 Reading foundational skills standards 1, 2, 3, 4 skills… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book A Very Unusual Dog by Dorothy Joan Harris. Also great for bilingual classrooms as the book is also available under the title Un perro muy diferente. Activities in English and Spanish! Great for relationships and imagination! Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key… Read More