Back to School Read Alouds Reading Activities 2 - September

These 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 The Thing Lou Couldn't Do, I'm Just a Scribble, After the Fall, The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and The Sandwich Swap.

You can get to know your students while covering reading comprehension standards. The books and accompanying activities are great for discussing important themes like kindness, growth mindset, friendship, perseverance, inclusion and learning from mistakes.      

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:

The Thing Lou Couldn't Do, by Ashley Spires

I'm Not Just a Scribble, by Diane Alber

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again, by Dan Santat

The Sandwich Swap, by Queen Rania

The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes, by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein

Teachers said:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Aneesah A. says,

"Love the book choices. The lesson plans are easy to follow and engaging for the students. Thanks!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Brooke H. says, "I love all of these lessons! I ended up buying the year long bundle because I liked it so much."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Cari T. says, "I have purchased several of these read aloud products and I am always thrilled by how it’s broken down for each close read focus! They are always wonderful products. I have had a lot of success with them. Thank you!

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

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A Year of Interactive Read Aloud Activities has 56 read alouds for 1st and 2nd grade.

A Year of Teacher Favorite Read Aloud Activities is a special edition for K-2nd grade.

Download our Scope and Sequence to see how we have aligned each of our grade 1-2 read-aloud lessons with the CCSS standards.

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