Children’s Literature Ideas

Looking for an engaging way to teach making predictions? This Sandwich Swap lesson plan is packed with activities, graphic organizers, and a predictions worksheet to help students develop their comprehension skills. Plus, it’s a low-prep resource that makes planning a breeze! Check out the blog post here!

A legend is a form of story told in the oral tradition that narrates events rooted in historic and realistic settings with characters that mimic real humans. Listed below is a combination of Christmas and non-Christmas legends to help teach young readers about the elements of legendary literature! (No pun intended.) Read on to find 10 LEGENDARY MENTOR TEXT WITH SUMMARIES AND TEACHING TIPS! Reading classroom | Education inspiration | Educational activities | Learning activity

This chapter book companion works with ANY Beginner Chapter Book!This book companion is a great way for students to keep track of what they have read! This includes areas for before reading, during reading, and after reading. These can be used for whole class instruction, small group instruction, book clubs, partner reading, and independent reading. Learning how to read a chapter book is an exciting milestone for young readers!This Resource Contains:* Before Reading: Favorite books survey...

Fiction or Non-fiction- Anchor with list of characteristics of each kind of genre.

I review my strategies for teaching theme in upper elementary to help your learners go from surface meaning to lesson learning! My theme reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. #teachingthemes #upperelementaryela #elateacher

How to teach students to love reading without relying on reading incentive and points programs - 3 ideas that really work to help students develop their own internal motivation for reading!

Teaching point of view? Make sure to check out this list of books for teaching point of view for your kindergarten, first, and second grade students! These children's picture books are perfect for teaching about different narrators and who is telling the story. Some of these mentor texts have a unique twist on who is telling the story and students will enjoy the different perspectives. Learn more here!

Using text evidence to find character traits is such an important fiction reading skill! These fiction reading comprehension graphic organizers are so helpful in breaking down fiction reading skills. Graphic organizers for analyzing character relationships, comparing and contrasting characters, listing character traits, emotions vs traits and more. Great for teaching reading to upper elementary students!

Here are Poetry books that your kids will love! Grab them for your mentor text and read-aloud collection. Use them in your mini-lessons, small group activities, partner reading, and more! Your elementary students will absolutely adore these books full of poems!

Looking for picture books for your elementary students for World Read Aloud day in February? This blog post gives you 5 great books (with video links) and free discussion prompts for each. These prompts are perfect World Reading Day activities because you can use them for reading comprehension, mini-lessons and/or reader's workshop.

Are you looking for some dragonfly themed children’s books to use in your classroom that includes literacy extension ideas? Click here for a list of children's books for the dragonfly theme that includes literacy extension ideas. Grab a free Dragonfly Clasroom Book! #literacy #reading #childrensbooks # dragonfly #literacyextensions #theteachingscene #theteachingscenebymaureen

Teach your students to analyze fiction and nonfiction texts as well as print and visual texts using this gradual release process. Begin with direct instruction and scaffold students to independent practice using a wide array of engaging analysis activities. Perfect for high school classrooms. Analyzing texts lesson or complementary activities for your existing curriculum from Reading and Writing Haven.

Are you looking for a fun and engaging genre to add to your classroom library? Graphic novels are a staple in the elementary classroom and are used in the classroom to motivate new readers, scaffold reading for struggling readers, and generally encourage reluctant readers. The use of images with the text provides not only context clues but also visual interest. Graphic novels are great for 3rd graders, 4th graders, and 5th graders. Check out our list of graphic novels today!

SSSTeaching: Setting in the Elementary Classroom

Grab a book from the virtual book club and do the related hands-on activity to support the theme from the book! Great for therapy or home.