Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plans

These interactive read aloud lesson plans use 75 different picture books to teach over 40 different reading comprehension skills. Each lesson has a carefully selected picture book to use as a mentor text.

Included in This Download:

• 75 lesson plans that cover specific reading comprehension skills.
• Scope and Sequence guided for lesson planning and tracking.
• A book list with all the books used linked to Amazon for easy reference.
• A standards checklist to make sure you are covering everything inside your core.

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Each Lesson Plan Includes:

1. Important vocabulary terms or potentially confusing words from the text.
2. Questions and prompts before reading to help activate each student's background knowledge and provide the right level of scaffolding.
3. Questions and prompts during reading with specific page numbers and talking points.
4. Questions and prompts after reading to help summarize the book and reinforce the skill covered.
5. Graphic organizers selected specifically for each book and skill to help students organize their thinking and respond to what they've read.
6. Answer keys for each graphic organizer.

Skills Included In This Download:

• asking questions
• author's purpose
• cause and effect
• character comparisons
• character changes
• character actions and development
• character traits
• character's feelings, actions, and choices
• compare and contrast
• comparing two authors
• comparing two books
• comparing two characters
• comparing two problems and solutions
• comparing two settings
• determining importance
• dialogue
• figurative language
• genres
• idioms, proverbs, and adages
• illustrations
• inferring
• main idea and details
• making connections
• metaphors and similes
• mood in illustrations
• multiple meaning words
• nonfiction text features
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• point of view
• predictions
• problem and solution
• settings
• shades of meaning
• summarizing
• plot
• theme, moral, and lesson
• tone and mood
• using illustrations to add detail and meaning
• visualizing
• word choice

Books Used in These Lesson Plans

1. A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon
2. A Different Pond by Bao Phi
3. A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea by Michael Ian Black
4. A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
5. All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan
6. Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
7. Bats by Gail Gibbons
8. Bringning the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
9. Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
10. Click, Clack, Moow Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
11. Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds
12. Creepy Pair of Underwear by Aaron Reynolds
13. Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
14. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
15. Emmanuel's Dream by Ann Thompson
16. Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
17. From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
18. Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood
19. Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
20. Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose
21. I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
22. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
23. Khalida and the Most Beautiful Song by Amanda Moeckel
24. King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
25. Martin's Big Words by Dorren Rappaport
26. Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley
27. Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian
28. Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
29. Moonshot by Brian Floca
30. More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby
31. My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
32. Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett
33. Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed by Emily Pearson
34. Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
35. Pigsty by Mark Teague
36. Planets by Elizabeth Carney
37. Plant Secrets by Emily Goodman
38. Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise
39. Rotten Teeth by Laura Simms
40. Salt in His Shoes by Deloris Jordan
41. Sea Turtles by Laura March
42. Snow by Cynthia Rylant
43. Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
44. Suddenly by Colin McNaughton
45. Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
46. Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
47. The Bad Seed by Jory John
48. The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
49. The Cow Who Climbed a Tree by Gemma Merino
50. The Empty Pot by Demi
51. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
52. The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka
53. The Good Egg by Jory John
54. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
55. The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors by Adam Rex
56. The Night I Followed the Dog by Nina Laden
57. The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
58. The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
59. The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
60. The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
61. The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
62. The Sandwich Swap by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah
63. The Stray Dog by Marc Simont
64. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas
65. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
66. The Ugly Dumpling by Stephanie Campisi
67. The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie
68. There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colanaro
69. Tuesday by David Wiesner
70. Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg
71. Weird Parents by Audrey Wood
72. When Lightning Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco
73. Where the Wild Things Are by Mauric Sendak
74. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
75. Winter is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer

How to Use Each Lesson Plan

1. Decide which skill you want to teach and determine which mentor text you want to use.
2. Print out the lesson plan and go through the questions so you become familiar with the content.
3. Place sticky notes inside the book to help you remember to stop and discuss as you read.
4. Have students fill out their graphic organizers as you read.

Why Use Interactive Read Alouds?

Interactive read alouds are a POWERFUL way to help your students learn and understand important reading comprehension skills. Not only do they help teachers model fluency and comprehension skills using think alouds, they also get kids interacting with and talking about a text.

How long should my interactive read aloud lessons take each day?

Each lesson can take anywhere from 10-20 minutes depending on the needs of your students. This is only a suggested time frame. Your class might need more time to complete the activities for each day.

Print-and-Go Materials

All Create-abilities resources are designed with ease-of-use in mind. Don’t have a color printer? No problem. Pages that do not render well in black-and-white have black-and-white copies included. Be classroom-ready with a quick print.

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