Check out this list of picture books for upper elementary! Use them for interactive read alouds and as mentor texts! Such great picture books for older kids in third, fourth, and fifth grade. #readalouds
Interactive Read Alouds IRAs have many benefits for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to help build reading comprehension and vocabulary.
******This Product is Part of Bundle TWO****** Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. Please note that this product does not contain student printables. Interactive Read Alouds are meant to promote student thinking/discussion. Day Five of all read alouds will be an independent writing activity. Please Consider Viewing My Other Interactive Read Alouds: The Wretched Stone - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thank You, Mr. Falker - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Voices in the Park - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - Interactive Read Aloud The Yellow Star - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Fly Away Home ~ Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Train to Somewhere - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Interactive Read Aloud Bundles: Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - Grades 3, 4, 5 Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - BUNDLE TWO
Teachers make your read alouds more interactive & engaging for upper elementary students with these ideas, tips, strategies & book suggestions
I am rounding up all my interactive read aloud tips into one blog post for you! This is a catch-all of the many posts that I have done to share ideas and strategies for making them work in your classroom. What is an Interactive Read Aloud? An Interactive Read Aloud (IRA) is a planned and
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Interactive Read Aloud tips and tricks for upper elementary. Ideas to engage young learners with Interactive Read Aloud activities.
Learn how to use interactive read alouds, how to choose a book, & why they are powerful to help students master reading strategies.
This interactive read aloud will be a fantastic addition to your Reader’s Workshop. The book “Miss Turie’s Magic Creatures” is the perfect way to bring some excitement and imagination into your reading class. The fun activities will help students to learn more about mythological creatures, all while developing critical reading skills such as making predictions and learning new vocabulary. What is Included? · Interactive Read Aloud Prompts in two formats- sticky notes and full pages (Prompts include structures such as: Turn and Talk, Stop and Jot, Thumbs Up, Setting a Purpose for Reading, etc.) · Ideas for activities for Before, During and After reading. · Interactive Word Wall Cards · Stop and Jot Activity - Mythological Creatures Log Book · Design your own mythological creature activity Don’t forget to check out my other Read Aloud Products! How to Survive as a Shark Interactive Read Aloud The Wild Robot Interactive Read Aloud Shin-chis-Canoe Interactive Read Aloud Shi-shi-etko Interactive Read Aloud ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about Chocolate Covered Classroom Creations!
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Teachers make your read alouds more interactive & engaging for upper elementary students with these ideas, tips, strategies & book suggestions
Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. In this product, you are receiving five different five day Interactive Read Alouds. This is 5 weeks worth of Interactive Read Alouds!!!!!! The books for these read alouds are: The Man That Walked Between the Towers Those Shoes The Wretched Stone Thunder Cake Voices in the Park At a Glance Skills: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read excerpt – Plot Development Day Three: Possible Re-read entire text - Theme Day Four: Read Excerpt - Inferencing Day Five: Culminating Activity – Writing Opinion Paragraphs The Wretched Stone Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Look at excerpt – Story structure and Plot Day Three: Read Excerpt – Narrator’s Point of View Day Four: Possible Re-read entire text– Character Changes Day Five: Culminating Activity – Writing Opinion Paragraphs Those Shoes Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read Excerpt: - Point of View/Inferences Day Three: Read Excerpt - Text Evidence/Discussion Day Four: No Text Reading - Theme Day Five: No Text Reading – Writing – Personal Narrative Voices in the Park Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read excerpt – Illustrations and Point of View Day Three: Read excerpt – Illustrations and Point of View Day Four: Read excerpts – Illustrations and Point of View Day Five: Culminating Writing Activity: Narrative or Expository Thunder Cake Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read Excerpt – Elements of Sound Day Three:: Read Entire Text – Repeated Phrase/Inferencing Day Four: No Text Reading – Story Elements Day Five: Culminating Activity – Expository Writing All Interactive Read Alouds include Vocabulary and Mentor Sentences. With the exception of Voices in the Park, there are no student printables with this product. Interactive Read Alouds are meant to be used for modeling and discussion. All My Interactive Read Alouds can be purchased separately by clicking on the links below: Voices in the Park - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Those Shoes - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Wretched Stone - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Train to Somewhere - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thank You, Mr. Falker - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thunder Cake - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Yellow Star - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Fly Away Home ~ Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - Interactive Read Aloud Other Interactive Read Aloud Bundles: Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - BUNDLE ONE
Are you looking for great literature to introduce to your students in the month of October? You will find some of my favorite October books for upper elementary students. Read on for a summary and why they are my favorites! Happy Haunted Reading! CLICK ON EACH BOOK PICTURE TO
Looking for fall picture books to read with upper elementary students? Those Darn Squirrels is a must to add to your fall read aloud stack!
*****This Product is Part of Bundle TWO**** Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. Daily Activities at a glance for this Interactive Read Aloud Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read excerpt – Illustrations and Point of View Day Three: Read excerpt – Illustrations and Point of View Day Four: Read excerpts – Illustrations and Point of View Day Five: Culminating Writing Activity: Narrative or Expository This particular Interactive Read Aloud is Point of View based rather than multiple skills. This product also includes an optional student printable for recording the points of view of each narrator in the story. Consider My Other Interactive Read Alouds: Fly Away Home ~ Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Train to Somewhere - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - Interactive Read Aloud Thank You, Mr. Falker - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Wretched Stone - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Yellow Star - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thunder Cake - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Interactive Read Aloud Bundles Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - Grades 3, 4, 5 Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - BUNDLE TWO Other Products You Might Enjoy: ELA Academic Vocabulary Quiz Quiz Trade - USE ALL YEAR - Assessment Included 5 Minute Grammar Editing for TEST PREP - BUNDLE - Weeks 1 - 8 Text Structures RI 5.5 - Cooperative Groups - Station Cards - Worksheets - Quiz
I DO love back to school time. I love the freshly sharpened crayons, the clean pink erasers, and I especially love the pencils that are all the same size and perfectly pointed for the first (and possibly the last) time in my classroom. Back to School is a time of new beginnings, the glorious Spring of the school year. It's also the perfect time to read some great books to teach concepts like classroom rules and procedures, but more than that, to teach our newbies the deeper things that we want in a class community, like respect, caring, and tolerance. In this post, The Teacher Next Door shares her current top ten favorite books for Back to School.
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What are interactive read alouds? Tips and tricks for interactive read aloud planning with resources and teaching ideas for elementary.
Teachers make your read alouds more interactive & engaging for upper elementary students with these ideas, tips, strategies & book suggestions
***** This Item is Part of a Bundle ****** Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. Specifics for this Read Aloud: Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Character Traits with Text evidence and Elaboration Day Three: Read entire text - Conflict and Resolution/Series of Events Day Four: -Theme Day Five: Culminating Writing Task – Compare OR Contrast paragraph Consider purchasing an Interactive Read Aloud Bundle: Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - Bundle ONE - Five Read Alouds Check out my other Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Train to Somewhere - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Fly Away Home ~ Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thunder Cake - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Other Resources You Might Enjoy: Poetry Elements BUNDLE -- Figurative Language and Sound Elements Shiloh - Complete Novel Vocabulary BUNDLE Voices in the Park - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary
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This interactive read aloud is a great way to combine Social Studies and Language Arts! Shin-chi’s Canoe is a beautifully illustrated book about one family’s experience with Residential Schools. What is Included? • Two Interactive Read Aloud Lessons • Lesson1 focuses on the forward of the book. This gives students some background information about Residential Schools. • Lesson 2 focuses on the rest of the book. • Each lesson includes suggested prompts for before, during and after reading. • Prompts include structures such as: Turn and Talk, Stop and Jot, Think Aloud, Setting a Purpose for Reading, etc. • These prompts can be printed as a one page document, or on stickie notes. • An anchor chart activity and a reading response Venn Diagram are also included. This lesson works fabulously with a Reading Workshop framework or simply as a way to introduce a tough subject in Canadian History. Don’t forget to check out my other Social Studies Proucts! Don’t forget to check out my other Social Studies Proucts! FNMI Alphabet Cards Canadian History Digital Interactive Notebook ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about Chocolate Covered Classroom Creations! ☺
Wait...read alouds in upper elementary? Yes! Not only do the older kids enjoy listening to someone read (though they might not admit it), but it's beneficial for them as well. Benefits of read alouds in upper elementary We want our students to see the true joy in reading. By reading aloud to our students we
Read about six holiday books for your upper elementary students. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas themed books are included!
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What are interactive read alouds? Tips and tricks for interactive read aloud planning with resources and teaching ideas for elementary.
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Here are ten fall books that match themes of gratitude, seasonal changes, and even a few Holiday themed stories.
Teaching a narrative nonfiction unit in the upper elementary grades is so engaging with mentor texts and paired passages!
Do you read aloud to your students? Most of us do. Reading aloud to your students is a great way to model good reading and share books that may be beyond the reading level of the class you are teaching. Traditionally, read aloud consisted of the teacher with a book in her/his hand and the students sitting quietly listening to the story. If this is how you are doing read aloud, you are missing out on a HUGE teaching opportunity! ********************************************************************************* I wanted to use this post to share with you something new I have been doing in my class this year with my read aloud time. I have always taken the time each day to read aloud to my students. I teach 4th and 5th graders and find that time to be invaluable! Through read aloud I am able to model for my students fluency, thinking while reading, and so much more. I have always chosen the books I will be sharing with the class so that students are exposed to literature that they might not choose themselves or are not able to read on their own. The students listened while I read. I would think aloud, stop to ask questions, let students share their ideas, but mostly it was just me reading to them and them listening. It was good, but it lacked something. This summer I read this book... and it was like I had found the ANSWER. THIS was exactly how I had always wanted my reading workshop to run. Now, I'm going to be honest and tell you that I don't have it all going smoothly yet, but the one thing that is working out BRILLIANTLY is my interactive read-aloud time. At the beginning of the year... when the Back-to-School sales were going on, I purchased each of my students a reading journal. I covered each one with colored paper (except the fun black and white ones) and but labels with student names on them. Each journal was then divided into three sections: mini-lessons, read aloud, and reading response. The mini-lesson section is used for taking notes and practicing strategies that aide comprehension. For example, I taught my students how to make a quick sketch chart to keep track of the sequence of events in a story. Another strategy I shared with students is "story mapping". Students draw a map of the setting of a story and then write in events that happened in each part of the setting. Here is an example from Dexter the Tough: Students then take these strategies and use them with their own independent reading books. Here is a story map a student drew in her "Reading Response" journal sections while reading The Tale of Despereaux: Back to read aloud. One of the major changes I have made is that, when possible, each of my students has a copy of the book in his/her hand. I am reading aloud, but my students are reading along with me. Another big change is that I bring all of my students to the carpet and we sit in a discussion circle. Students bring their book, their journal, and a pencil. During the reading, we stop to discuss confusing parts of the story, make predictions, chart ideas and clues as to what is happening in the story. Here is the plot anchor chart we created and filled out while reading Dexter the Tough: This has been the most valuable change I have made to my teaching this year! Even though I do all of the reading, my students are now engaged in the text, raising their hands to share ideas, predictions and observations. It is truly interactive. I find I am doing most of my teaching through the read aloud now. We just finished a unit on recognizing and understanding figurative language and I am able to support that new learning during this 15-20 minute block of time. Using interactive read aloud with my class has allowed me to really engage all of my students in the books we read. We get to be involved in each other's thinking processes and insights and my students still get to hear fluent reading being modeled. Read aloud has become my students' favorite part of the day! It is a win-win for all of us! We just recently started reading "When I Reach You" as our read-aloud. In my next blog post I'll be sharing some of the AMAZING thinking and connections I am hearing from my students. Goose-bump moments I call them. Is there anything you have done differently this year that you are excited about? If so, I'd love to hear about it! Please comment below! Thank you for visiting!
The Importance of Read Alouds: Reading aloud has many benefits. Here are 15!
Are you looking for some new strategies to implement during interactive read-alouds that will create lots of high-level thinking in your classroom? WATCH MY LIVE VIDEO AND LEARN 3 EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING WITH INTERACTIVE READ ALOUDS. 3 Interactive Read-Aloud Teaching Strategies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BWTTt09CXw Posted by Out of This World Literacy on Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Enemy Pie is the perfect read aloud for upper elementary. Here are some Lesson ideas for using Enemy Pie in Reading and Writing.
Upper Elementary Novel Study Ideas - favorite book suggestions and novel study ideas for upper elementary ELA classrooms.
Spring picture books for upper elementary students with activities to engage all readers! Includes free spring activities for 3rd, 4th, & 5th graders
Reader's theater is the perfect tool to add to your middle school ELA toolbox for so many reasons: it is interactive, highly engaging, enhances student
Teaching with Biographies and Ben Franklin With all of the fabulous biographies available today for children, teaching about and with biographies can be such fun for your students. It hasn't always been this way. When I was a little girl (many, many years ago...) I remember biographies being boring, fact-filled chapter books. They were definitely not the books that I chose when I went to the library. The only biographies I remember reading were those assigned to me by my teachers. Today's biographies for children are very different. Biographies for children are now colorful picture books full of interesting information that grab the reader's attention and are enjoyable to read. I recently gathered a variety of biographies for my students on Benjamin Franklin. My school library has several wonderful biographies about Mr. Franklin. We combined learning about the characteristics of biographies with learning more about this U.S. founding father. Some great biographies about Benjamin Franklin include: Ben Franklin His Wit and Wisdom by Alan Schroeder Who Was Ben Franklin? by Dennis Fradin Now and Ben by Gene Barretta Although all of these books are excellent, I chose to begin by using How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer. Before we read this book, I had the students to do a variation of an ABC brainstorm activity. With ABC brainstorm, students write what they know about a given topic using each letter of the alphabet. Instead of ABC's, we did a BEN brainstorm. Students wrote one fact about Ben Franklin with each of the 3 letters: "B", "E", and "N". (3 facts are much faster to write than 26.) I discovered that many of my students knew very little of Ben Franklin or thought he was one of our presidents. After we discussed our prior knowledge, we then discussed characteristics of biographies. My sweet teacher friend next door has this adorable biography anchor chart that she let me share. After reviewing the characteristics of a biography, we read and discussed How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. My students really enjoyed this colorful and interesting biography. Next, students used their Chromebooks to read an online book about Ben Franklin. This book is actually part of a paid website that my school system has purchased called myOn. It was a fun graphic biography that my students enjoyed, but if you do not have access to this website, another great choice is this page from Mr. Nussbaum. The students then used the information they learned from both resources to complete a graphic organizer. This biography graphic organizer can be found in my store in a packet containing four graphic organizers for your students to use as templates as they research and write about a person. Choose the graphic organizer that is perfect for your whole class, assign different graphic organizers for different groups of students, or choose specific organizers to differentiate the needs of your students. Use the graphic organizer alone, or as a writing template for the writing page essay paper. A grading rubric is also included if you choose to use this as an assessment. Click here or the picture below to purchase. Finally, we watched a 90 second video that recapped the information we had learned about Benjamin Franklin. This short video can be found here. If you are looking for a fun lesson to use with biographies, I hope you may want to try these activities out with your students. I know my kiddos had a lot of fun and learned a lot about Benjamin Franklin and biographies. Have a blessed day! Check out my blog: Teaching Fourth Visit my TpT Store Find me on Instagram Follow me on Facebook Follow me on Pinterest
******This Product is Part of Bundle TWO***** Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. Please note that this product does not contain student printables. Interactive Read Alouds are meant to promote student thinking/discussion. Day Five of all read alouds will be an independent writing activity. The Wretched Stone - At a Glance: Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Look at excerpt – Story structure and Plot Day Three: Read Excerpt – Narrator’s Point of View Day Four: Possible Re-read entire text– Character Changes Day Five: Culminating Activity – Writing Opinion Paragraphs Other Interactive Read Alouds in my Store: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - Interactive Read Aloud Thank You, Mr. Falker - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Yellow Star - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Train to Somewhere - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Fly Away Home ~ Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Voices in the Park - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thunder Cake - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Best Value -- A BUNDLE!!!! Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - Grades 3, 4, 5 Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - BUNDLE TWO
*******This Product is Part of Bundle TWO******* Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. It is meant to engage your students in thoughtful discussions about text. There are no student printables with this resource. Those Shoes Interactive Read Aloud At a Glance: Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read Excerpt: - Point of View/Inferences Day Three: Read Excerpt - Text Evidence/Discussion Day Four: No Text Reading - Theme Day Five: No Text Reading – Writing – Personal Narrative If you need more Interactive Read Alouds, consider the ones in my store below: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Voices in the Park - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thunder Cake - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Train to Somewhere - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary Thank You, Mr. Falker - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Wretched Stone - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Yellow Star - Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - Interactive Read Aloud Fly Away Home ~ Interactive Read Aloud for Upper Elementary BEST VALUE - A BUNDLE Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - Grades 3, 4, 5 Five Interactive Read Alouds for Upper Elementary - BUNDLE TWO
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Use these vocabulary activities to enhance your vocabulary instruction to help boost your students' reading skills and comprehension.
What are interactive read alouds? Tips and tricks for interactive read aloud planning with resources and teaching ideas for elementary.
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Get ideas for winter read alouds for lower elementary students. Plus, learn some easy activities you can do with the stories.
What are interactive read alouds? Tips and tricks for interactive read aloud planning with resources and teaching ideas for elementary.
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Upper Elementary Novel Study Ideas - favorite book suggestions and novel study ideas for upper elementary ELA classrooms.
Election Day is coming up! What a perfect time to start discussing this important event with your students. This can be a tricky topic to address, though, especially in the younger grades. Picture books are the answer! Using books about elections and voting can make the concept much easier for your kids to grasp. I've
