TODAY IS MONDAY Today is Monday is a great read aloud to use when teaching about days of the week and sequencing. This picture book is a traditional folk song. Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will love the Today is Monday song, and what foods are eaten on each day of the week! TODAY IS MONDAY BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS In Today is Monday, different animals are featured eating a different food for each day of the week. The text is a very catchy song, and your students will learn the days of the week as they sing along!  This book companion unit pairs with Toda ..read more

DON'T TOUCH THAT FLOWER! Don't Touch That Flower by Alice Hemming is a fun read aloud for spring! This book is great to use for a spring plant theme, to teach your Kindergarten and First Grade students about plants and how to care for flowers. Don't Touch That Flower features the characters Squirrel and Bird from our fall favorite read aloud The Leaf Thief. These literacy companion activities for Don't Touch That Flower will help your students dig deeper into the book as they engage in reading comprehension activities and a fun craft!  DON'T TOUCH THAT FLOWER BOOK ACTIVITIES AND ..read more

GREEN SHAMROCKS Looking for a St. Patrick's Day book that doesn't involve leprechauns, rainbows, and gold coins? Green Shamrocks by Eve Bunting is the read aloud you need! Students in Kindergarten and First Grade will love how Rabbit plants shamrocks for the St. Patrick's Day parade, and the mystery of where they went after the storm! GREEN SHAMROCKS BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Rabbit is excited. It's almost St. Patrick's Day! He decides to plant some green shamrocks. He takes good care of them, tending the seedlings until they are grown. One morning he checks on the shamrocks to ..read more

BEAR FINDS EGGS Bear Finds Eggs is a new read aloud by Karma Wilson, and it's perfect for spring! Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will love joining Bear and his friends as they search the forest for eggs. They will also love these book activities that go with the story! BEAR FINDS EGGS BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Bear and his friends are walking throught the forest, where they notice nests filled with eggs. Bear leaves gifts for the soon-to-be chicks at each nest they find. But when they meet Meadowlark, they are on a mission to find her missing eggs. Each time they fi ..read more

OWL AT HOME Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel is a fun chapter book read aloud for guided reading. Your First Grade and Second Grade students will love Owl, the main character of each chapter, and the sweet, silly things he does while at his home. OWL AT HOME BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Owl at Home is a beginning reader book. It is divided into short chapters, all about Owl and the silly, sweet things he does. This engaging story, paired with these reading companion activities, will help students have fun as they learn important literacy skills. This book study unit is packed with ..read more

LOVE MONSTER Love Monster by Rachel Bright is a sweet book to use around Valentine's Day. This read aloud is great for Kindergarten and First Grade, and these reading activities will help your students with their literacy learning! LOVE MONSTER BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Poor monster! He is funny-looking and googly-eyed in a world of cute and fluffy things. Monster is lonely, so he heads out in search of someone to love him just the way he is. Monster searches all over and has no success. It's when he stops looking for love, that it finds him! These Love Monster book compani ..read more

TURKEY'S VALENTINE SURPRISE Our favorite Turkey is back, in Turkey's Valentine Surprise by Wendi Silvano! This Valentine's Day read aloud has Turkey attempting to deliver valentines to his friends in secret. Will Turkey's disguises work? Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will love finding out! TURKEY'S VALENTINE SURPRISE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Turkey's Valentine Surprise is an engaging book, and your students will have fun as they read the story and do these corresponding literacy activities! This unit is packed with standards based reading skills that are essential ..read more

HOW TO CATCH A LOVEOSAURUS How to Catch a Loveosaurus by Alice Walstead is a fun read aloud for Kindergarten and First Grade! Your students will love the story and these corresponding reading activities for Valentine's Day themed literacy learning. HOW TO CATCH A LOVEOSAURUS BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Students love the 'how to catch' series books, as they join the characters in their quest to trap the creatures, in this case, to find the Loveosaurus. It's fun to read about how the students in the story try to catch sight of the loving and kind Loveosaurus while on their field tri ..read more

FROZEN NOSES Frozen Noses by Jan Carr is a read aloud is filled with winter fun, and the colorful cut paper illustrations are beautiful! If you live in a snowy location, your Kindergarten and First Grade students will relate to the children in this book. FROZEN NOSES BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS Frozen Noses and these corresponding activities are perfect for winter in Kindergarten and First Grade. Your students will be engaged using this book companion unit that provides you with literacy printables, reading companion activities, lesson ideas, and a craft. This Frozen Noses u ..read more

READING POSTERS Looking for some Reading Posters to hang in your classroom that will help your students understand different types of books, genres, and parts of the story? This pack of reading charts is written in kid-friendly language, so they're perfect for First Grade and Second Grade classrooms! TYPES OF BOOKS One section of Reading Posters includes different kinds of books. These are the books that most First Grade and Second Grade students will interact with and use at their levels of learning. GENRES Another section of the Reading Posters set has charts that describe different ..read more