☀️ Quiz: What Should the Kids Read Next? ☀️
Quiz: What Should the Kids Read Next?
Second graders need books that hold their interest but aren’t so difficult they turn them off to reading altogether. These books are surefire winners.
These books are wholesome enough for a 6- or 7-year-old but also offer depth and complexity that make them thought-provoking for advanced readers.
It can be challenging for advanced readers in early elementary grades to find more complex texts that are still age-appropriate. These 20 books are just right.
Knowing that other kids have read and loved a story can help in finding that next great book. Here are some popular books that kids are recommending to their friends.
Teach your students about the African American history and culture behind their favorite playground games, songs, and stories with these discussion questions and classroom activities inspired by Patricia McKissack's Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout.
Teach your kids about strength and perseverance with this Common Core-aligned teaching guide to Emmanuel’s Dream, a picture book based on a true story.
This free Educator’s Guide contains picture book recommendations and activities that are aligned to Common Core standards and explore themes like family, friendship, history, and folklore.
Persuasive writing is an increasingly common requirement for the primary grades, but many kids don’t have much experience with it. If your students are stuck on the same formats or could use a wider set of stylistic moves to be more convincing, check out these useful titles.
Teach your students to Choose Kind with these discussion questions and classroom activities inspired by R. J. Palacio’s We’re All Wonders and aligned to Common Core Standards.
This Mad Libs-inspired curriculum guide provides a fun and engaging way to reinforce your students’ grammar, reading comprehension, and vocabulary skills.
Studying fantastic mentor texts exposes students to examples that elevate their personal narrative writing. To expand your classroom’s collection of personal narrative mentor texts, consider these picture books.
Explore Common Core Language Arts Anchor Standards with these accessible and engaging R Is for Rocket lesson plans.
With these easy-to-follow lesson plans inspired by The Day the Crayons Quit, your students will be generating persuasive arguments and text in no time.
We asked real-life preschool and elementary school teachers to share their favorite books for the classroom. Here are 11 picture books they recommend, plus tips on how to teach them.
