Interactive Read Alouds - One Book, Many Ways

 

Welcome the season of fall into your classroom with an interactive read aloud with high quality fall picture books!

I truly believe in the power of high-quality picture book read-alouds to engage upper elementary students, get to know them as individuals and as readers, build community, and develop a lifelong love of reading, too.

Finding picture book read-alouds and creating meaningful activities for upper elementary students is no easy task! 

Let me help! 

I know how much time it takes to create content-rich activities that promote critical thinking and align with standards for the books that we read with our students. That is why I created these reading companions...Time to Read Aloud

I have taken my love of picture books and coupled it with interactive read-aloud guides and rich meaningful activities to help you make the most of the time you have with your students.

These resources will save you valuable classroom time because each set focuses on using a picture book, again and again, each time revisiting the book with a new lens: reading as readers, reading as writers, and reading as word-smiths.

If you are like me, you are picture book-obsessed...and while it is very tempting to constantly read a new book each time you teach a lesson, hold back and grab a book that you have already read!

Using previously read picture books:

• Allows students to focus on the skill or objective of your lesson instead of trying to comprehend and digest a new book.
• It also shows students that good readers enjoy books over and over and can reread books with a new lens.
• Encourages struggling readers to independently "reread" a book that they are familiar with already.
• It also SAVES SO MUCH INSTRUCTIONAL TIME!

Each set includes:

• Teaching Guides for reading, writing, and word work lessons
• Bloom's Question sticky notes to add to each page
• Anchor Charts and activities for each skill
• Independent Activities to use with any book 
• Going Further Literature Connection activities kids love
• ...plus so much more in both print and digital formats!

Which set will you use today?

"I LOVE this resource and hope you make more! Each book provides everything you need for a week of instruction in all areas of balanced literacy, including higher-level thinking skills:) Please make monthly bundles - I would buy them all!" -Sharon C.

"My students loved the read alouds and activities that go along with them. The resource is very easy to follow." -Jody

"This was an excellent and well put together bundle. I appreciated the no prep, pick up and do ease to help back to school get off smoothly." -Amber

"This was an excellent and well put together bundle. I appreciated the no prep, pick up and do ease to help back to school get off smoothly." -Amber

"This resource is jam-packed with some amazing goodies!! All of Think Grow Giggles products are so well thought out, loaded with excellent material and such a bargain for the price!" - Libby

"This resource is packed full with great comprehension and fun activities to use with mentor texts. Thank you!" - Valerie

Love these but want to pick and choose the titles you want? You can grab them as individual sets, too!

• Enemy Pie Companion Time to Read Set
• After the Fall Companion Time to Read Set
• The Invisible Boy Companion Time to Read Set
• A Bad Case of the Stripes Companion Time to Read Set
• Same, Same But Different Companion Time to Read Set
• The Name Jar Companion Time to Read Set
• Listen Companion Time to Read Set
• The Scarecrow's Dance Companion Time to Read Set
• Sweep Companion Time to Read Set
• Those Darn Squirrels Companion Time to Read Set
• Too Many Pumpkins Companion Time to Read Set 
• Fry Bread Companion Time to Read Set
• Hello, Harvest Moon Time to Read Set
• Thank You, Omu Time to Read Set
• The Stranger Time to Read Set
• Owl Moon Companion Time to Read Set
• Snowflake Bentley Companion Time to Read Set
• The Five Dog Night Companion Time to Read Set
• The Mitten Tree Companion Time to Read Set
• Miss Rumphius Companion Time to Read Set
• Harlem Grown Companion Time to Read Set
• The Great Kapok Tree Companion Time to Read Set

LOVE these sets? Be on the lookout for new sets being posted here!