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How to Read A Story by Kate Messner is one of my absolute favorite books to support first grade reading and writing workshop! I am so excited to read it with my Firsties this week! As you all know this is a year not quite like any other— so in the mornings I am in a first grade room helping out with ELA (my dream 🥰). We are just finishing up our unit of Building Good Reading Habits and in Writing we are just starting How-to Books! This book could not be more perfect! My favorite part in the book is when it asks the listeners to change their voices to sound like the character! So much fun!!!
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I am resharing one of my absolute favorite books! I will be reading it with my second graders today and I CANNOT wait! Going Up! by @sherryjlee is an absolutely adorable story about a little girl named Sophie who is invited to a birthday party for Olive on the 10th floor in the Party Room! As Sophie and her father are “going up” on the escalator to the party room, families of all different backgrounds join her in the elevator to head up to the party. Each family brings an important part of their culture to the party, whether that be dancing shoes, a favorite meal, or musical instruments. I love how this book represents so many different cultures coming together. There was no possible way to leave @thecuriousreader without this gem! The beautiful story is paired with gorgeous illustrations (and a pop-out page) by Charlene Chua. Another MUST-HAVE, in your libraries!
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Happy October!! There’s something so invigorating about the crisp fall air! 🍁 When I was a first grade teacher, I kept all of my “teacher” books organized in a HUGE filing cabinet by month. All the books were paired with a fun fall/Halloween activity. I can EASILY say that my October file took up the most room in the whole filing cabinet. I must have an affinity for October and Halloween because I have more books than you could imagine! I loved making decorations for our classroom and started planning my teacher costume MONTHS in advance. I’m not sure what Halloween will look like this year— but I am still super excited to share tons of fun read alouds with my kiddos! And here are a few of my favorites!! Swipe to see the October Library I created for my students!
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I absolutely LOVE the I Am series by @susanverde and @peterhreynolds , but this ONE, might just be my favorite so far! “One by one, we can make a difference. Because ONE is all it takes... to start something beautiful.” “I Am One” is an incredible book for children and could not be more timely in its release (September 15th!!). It makes helping others, doing the right thing, and making a difference so tangible and inspiring for kiddos.  A must have in classroom and home libraries! I cannot wait to read this book with all of my classes in grades K-5 as our SEL book of the year. I cannot wait to come up with some accompanying activities. Would love to hear your thoughts on those! 👇🏻👇🏻
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“Jabari Tries” by @gaiacornwall is without a doubt, one of my all-time favorite stories (it’s right up there with Jabari Jumps). Jabari, his adventures, and his feelings are so relatable for kiddos— “Jabari Tries” is filled with so many teaching opportunities. “Jabari Tries” is the story of Jabari and his desire to make a flying machine that will fly all the way across the yard. Jabari believes it will be easy and do not need any help. Quickly Jabari finds it is not as easy as he thought. Jabari becomes frustrated. Jabari’s father offers some great advice and his sister Nika offers her help, and together Jabari and Nika send the flying machine soaring across the yard. This book touches on so many important topics: SEL (dealing with difficult emotions, teamwork), STEAM (engineering), growth mindset (perseverance).. the list goes on. I cannot wait to read this book with my kiddos. I know I’ll refer back to this story many many times throughout the year. If it’s possible to love Jabari even more than you did with Jabari Jumps, here it is! A must-have in primary classrooms or home libraries!
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These two books perfectly capture my inner thoughts my last few days of summer. I’ve been going back and forth between moments of worry and moments of me telling myself that everything is going to be alright. We know going into this school year our little ones will be feeling the exact same way. SEL has always been important but this year, it should be a teacher’s top priority. Ruby’s Worry “Meet Ruby--a happy, curious, imaginative girl. But one day, she finds something unexpected: a Worry. It's not such a big Worry, at first. But every day, it grows a little bigger . . . And a little bigger . . . Until eventually, the Worry is ENORMOUS and is all she can think about. But when Ruby befriends a young boy, she discovers that everyone has worries, and not only that, there's a great way to get rid of them too . . . “ Every Little Thing “A beautiful book that brings Bob Marley's beloved song to life for a new generation: Every family will relate to this universal story of a boy who won't let anything get him down, as long as he has the help of three special little birds. This cheerful book will bring a smile to faces of all ages—because every little thing's gonna be all right.” Both of these books are so sweet and so necessary right now. They’re must-haves in the classroom! Teachers and students will both resonate with these stories. How are you feeling about back to school?
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High Five by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri (creators of Dragons Love Tacos) is such a fun and interactive book about the art it high-fiving! The 75th Annual High Five Competition is coming up— and this how-to book teaches readers to improve their high-fiving skills by interacting with the characters or other readers to get them ready to compete! Kiddos will have SO much fun practicing their high fives and then entering the competition and competing against tons of different animals! I CANNOT wait to use this with my kiddos in the Media Center!!
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“The Best Story” by Eileen Spinelli is another one of my favorite books to jump start Writers’ Workshop in the beginning of the school year. The Red Brick Library is having a contest. Write the best story and win first prize! The girl in the story knows she just has to win the contest. She heads home to start writing and finds herself wondering— what makes the best story? She asks some of her family members what makes for a great story. They all have differing opinions— romance, action, humor. She weaves them all together and shares her story with her family. Her mom takes her aside and tells her, “you know— the best stories are the ones that come from your heart.” She takes another try at her story and tells about the special adventures she has with her family. She’s not sure if she’ll win the contest but she content knowing she put the best story forward. Such a cute, fun story to introduce the elements of personal narrative. My kiddos always loved how in the end she wrote a story of her own— and it encouraged them to also do the same!
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I am so excited to finally get myself a copy of “Our Class is a Family” by Shannon Olsen from @lifebetweensummers Building community is the most important thing we do at the beginning of the year but also throughout the year. It is so important to make our children feel welcome, represented, and respected — and for our children to build empathy, and care for the health, safety and academic success of one another. Last year was my first year in the media center— building community is a difficult task when you only seen classes once per week. I decided to build community by choosing books that made my students feel welcome, represented and respected. I also made sure there was ample opportunities for students to share about themselves. We often had whole-class conversations about important topics where we really listened to everyone’s thoughts and ideas. My school has hybrid plans as of now. Making community even more challenging to create this year. What have you done in the past to build community? How have your plans changed for this coming year?
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Happy Sunday Everyone!! I am so blown away by all of the support I’ve gotten from over 5000 of you 🥰🥰 on my little Instagram. 5K GIVEAWAY coming soon but in the meantime because I am so appreciative of all of your support, I have made EVERYTHING IN MY @teacherspayteachers STORE FREE!!! You will find the Interactive Read Aloud Guides pictured above, PD Slides, literacy resources AND MORE!! They’ll be FREE all day!! (Sunday, August 9, 11:59 PM PST). So make sure to download them ASAP through the link in my bio. I ask that if you download them please subscribe to my store, and rate and review them if you can! 🥰 I’d love to know if you download them!! Comment below and also TAG YOUR TEACHER FRIENDS so they too, can take advantage of my FREEBIES!!
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“George” by Alex Gino and “Red” by Michael Hall are both exceptional LGBTQIAP+ books. They are must haves in the classroom. “George” is about a child whose outward appearance is a boy but Melissa (George’s chosen name) really knows she is a girl. When a school play comes up at school Melissa wants so badly to be the girl-lead but her teacher says no. Melissa and her best friend come up with a plan for Melissa to be the lead! “Red” is the story about a blue crayon who is mistakenly labeled as a red crayon. Everyone forces Red to be a red crayon and draw “red things” until one day when Purple asks Red to draw “blue things.” Finally, Red feels just right being blue! Both books are must-haves in homes and classrooms! “Red” is perfect for facilitating conversations with younger children and “George” is a wonderful book for grades 4th+.
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Nerd Alert 🤓 🚨 — yesterday I had just gotten off the phone with a new family I will be tutoring. I was talking to the mom about how her child is a good but reluctant reader. Her mom was telling me how she enjoys graphic novels and the is really enjoying Babysitter’s Club on Netflix. I thought it would be fun for us to start little book club together and read Babysitter’s Club books together. Reading books that have tv shows or are made into movies is always motivating for kiddos. I ran to my local Barnes and Noble to pick up the first graphic novel in the series. I also thought I would take a walk down memory lane and see the original Kristy’s Idea by Ann Martin. I held both books in my hand and thought about how some educators question if graphic novel reading is “real” reading. Then I looked at the graphic novel and thought about how I could not keep ANY graphic novels on the shelves. Why are they flying off the shelves and regular books are not? — especially when it’s THE SAME BOOK. I decided to investigate, how different are these books? Which is more fun to read? Is one harder than the other? Does one require more reading skills— or just different reading skills? What about my students who struggle with fluency but have a brilliant critical understanding of texts? So— I started reading one chapter at a time in both books. I can’t wait to share my thoughts with you. What questions do you have about graphic novels or GN adaptations? Are you a graphic novel fan?? Or do you prefer chapter books??
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