February 1
Today marks the first day of Digital Learning Month. It's also World Read Aloud Day!
Read Alouds Too Good to Miss
The Indiana Library Federation annually publishes a collection of new-ish reliable read alouds. The committee that selects the titles organizes the list into five sections: Primary, Upper Elementary, Middle Grades, High School, and All Ages. Download and print the list for the next time you're at the library or bookstore and in need of an awesome read aloud.
Ready-to-go Video Read Alouds
I concede that read alouds are best in person with kids gathered around a physical print book. But can we please agree that ready-to-go video read alouds are incredibly useful? Incorporate them as part of substitute teacher plans or play one while kids eat their snacks or transition back to academic time from a rowdy recess. Here are three terrific options for ready-to-go read alouds. Links are on Clever.
- Scholastic Bookflix
- Storyline Online
- Tumblebooks
Learning Ally
Did you know that our striving readers have access to thousands of audiobooks through Learning Ally? Talk to your building's Resource Teacher or Media Specialist to learn more. Access is through Clever.
Say hello below 👋
Comment below with a book that you LOVE to read aloud or share a book that you loved having read aloud to you. Can't think of a title? Post a book that looks good to you from the ILF Read Alouds Too Good to Miss list.
Kristin Patrick
Blended Learning Coach
Some of my favorites that II love to read aloud are Salt in His Shoes, A Bike Like Sergios, Each Kindness, The Story of Ferdinand, and the list is endless!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know Bike Like Sergio's! I will look for it at the library this weekend. Thank you, Stephanie
DeleteIt's an oldie goldie but I LOVE reading aloud Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World by George Shannon. You can't beat the feeling of kids begging for one more story ...
ReplyDeleteA co-worker turned me on to Grumpy Monkey - here's a great read aloud version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjkuRfuhw4s
ReplyDeletethis video is gold ✨
DeleteGoodnight Moon is a book I read to my kids often when they were little in memory of their brother.
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DeleteDuring the month of October I always read The Hallo-weiner. My kids don't care to listen anymore but it is still one of my favorites!
ReplyDeletelol! love dav pilkey
DeleteMatt Sprouts and the Curse of the Ten Broken Toes (Twelve-year-old Matt Sprouts is in big trouble. He didn't mean to hurt his neighbor Jenna with that awesome ninja move, it just happened!) Kids love to listen to this one.
ReplyDeletewhoa! I'll have to remember this one when helping teachers find texts with great first lines
DeleteI love reading The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors to my class and then we have a Rock, Paper, Scissors battle! The students LOVE the book and the friendly competition!
ReplyDeletethis one is a hoot!
DeleteMy favorites growing up were Letters from a Postman and Gregory the Terrible Eater (and lots of other Reading Rainbow books). As a teacher, my favorites to read aloud are Aaron Reynolds and Mo Willem books.
ReplyDeleteReading Rainbow has to be one of the catchiest tunes of all time!
DeleteI always loved our read aloud time when I was in elementary school. I vividly remember falling in love with A Wrinkle in Time as a I listened to my teacher read it. As a teacher now, I am a sucker for picture books and find every reason to read them to my students. I especially love the historical fiction picture books.....The Other Side, Baseball Saved Us, Balloons Over Broadway.....too many to list!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't get through A Wrinkle of Time in third grade, or in graduate school, or a bunch of years later in graphic novel format !!! maybe I need someone to read it aloud to me. ha!
DeleteI read Animal Architects yesterday to our first graders and they LOVED it! Each of our first grade classrooms received the book as a gift from Conner Prairie.
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