Back to School Read Alouds Reading Activities - September - K and 1st

These kindergarten and first grade Back to School Read Aloud lessons and activities are perfect for community building the first weeks of school. This bundle includes read aloud activities for the books Stick and Stone, Splat the Cat, Leo the Late Bloomer, Peanut Butter and Cupcake, and The Crayon Box that Talked.

You can get to know your students while covering reading comprehension standards. The books and accompanying activities are great for discussing important themes like friendship, inclusion, self acceptance, collaboration, and first day jitters.     

We pride ourselves on creating lessons that cover reading standards and help your students dive deeply into the text while falling in love with the story and characters. We spent years researching and refining our read aloud lesson plan for young learners.

How do our read aloud lessons work?

Each week's lessons focus on one book and will guide you through 3-5 days of reading lessons. Our detailed lesson plans include answer keys and samples. They are so easy to follow, you could even leave them for a substitute.

Each day, students will have a different purpose for revisiting and talking about the text. Speaking and listening are at the heart of interactive reading, therefore, they are incorporated throughout the lesson as students talk about the text and answer comprehension questions in a whole group or with partners. After reading, revisiting, and discussing the text each day, students complete a response to text activity. At the end of the week, students work on a writing prompt and craftivity.

Each book’s lesson plan includes: 

• Detailed lesson plans with samples
• Comprehension questions with answer keys 
• Response to text activities or graphic organizers (differentiated)
• Writing Prompt
• Craftivity 
• Bulletin Board Titles
• Graphic organizers pre-loaded to Google Slides and Seesaw

*The digital graphic organizers are similar to the printable options.

*Seesaw has many interactive tools to choose from. Text boxes are not pre-loaded on the graphic organizers because students may want to type or draw, which they can easily do with the provided tools in the program.

Prep is quick and easy.  Gather the books, print the lessons and corresponding activities, and you’re ready to teach engaging read alouds for 4-5 weeks!

To teach with this bundle you will need:

Leo the Late Bloomer, by Robert Kraus

Splat the Cat, by Rob Scotton

The Crayon Box that Talked, by Shane Derolf

Peanut Butter and Cupcake, by Terry Border

Stick and Stone, by Beth Ferry

Teachers said:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ann C says, "I love how engaged my students during any read aloud. The activities provided are wonderful to use during our reader's workshops. I also love how they allow me differentiate. I will purchase all."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Melissa B says, "I have many of these sets but my goodness, this pack is one of the cutest! Love the titles and the range of activities. Just awesome!"

-Melissa B

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sunshine C. says, "The books, comprehension questions, and activities are great. My kids really look forward to them everyday and they love that we really get to deeply explore each book!"

If you like this product, then you will LOVE all of our other interactive read alouds.

To see more of ourRead-alouds for Kindergarten, click here.

To see more of our Read-alouds for First Grade, click here.

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