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Are you looking for butterfly and caterpillar read aloud lessons? Check out these plans for the books The Very Impatient Caterpillar and Great Migrations: Butterflies. These interactive reading lesson plans will guide you through your daily instruction in reading comprehension, responding to literature, sentence studies with mentor sentences, crafts and more!
These No Prep Print and Go Lesson Plans will save your teaching life! SERIOUSLY!!!
WHY TEACHERS LOVE THESE READ ALOUD LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES
- These book lessons are so easy to use. Our scripted lessons take the guesswork out of your interactive read alouds planning!
- Reading Comprehension skills are taught spirally all year. This research-based approach helps make practice permanent and ensures students will revisit various reading comprehension skills in REAL WORLD literature.
HOW DO THE ENGAGING READERS READ ALOUD LESSONS WORK?
The teacher does the reading work while the students do the thinking work. These lessons are grounded in research. It is said that the person doing the most talking is the person who is doing the most learning. SO these lessons scaffold instruction to get students talking. Side-by-side, students learn comprehension strategies such as Predicting, Retelling, Text Details, Connecting, Inferring, Opinion Writing and so much more. You won’t believe how quickly students fall in love with your read-aloud time.
Brain research reveals that reading comprehension starts with listening comprehension. Since kindergarten, first grade students, and second grade students have listening skills that far surpass their ability to decode words, it is imperative that they participate in daily deep conversations surrounding books that allow them to strengthen their thinking! Don’t wait! Start building pathways to deeper thinking today!
These units can be used on their own or as a supplement to your current reading curriculum. They are simply the easiest and most enjoyable way to drive up student engagement. Join the thousands of teachers who have transformed their ELA block.
THIS READ ALOUD SET OF BOOKS INCLUDE:
- 5 Day Interactive read aloud discussion lesson plans
- Reading comprehension strategies to help all students deepen their connections and engagement to books. A variety of response page options are available so you can select the one that works best for your students.
- THE VERY IMPATIENT CATERPILLAR: Predictions, retelling, cause and effect, inferring, connections, opinion writing
- GREAT MIGRATIONS - BUTTERFLIES: Schema, butterfly migration, butterfly life cycle, cool facts, connections. writing a nonfiction report about butterflies
- Full color pictorial retelling cards that can be printed or used as a PowerPoint pictorial retelling file for your whiteboard. This sets students up for success! The pictures support students as they strengthen their oral language.
- Interactive writing to support your students where they are.
- Sentence study and activities for each day of the week.
- Grammar study for each day of the week
- Phonics for Kindergarten and first grade
- A directed drawing for the book.
- Rubrics for each response activity
- You can get 2 months of ESGI for FREE by clicking https://www.esgisoftware.com/ and using code PD825.
PRINTABLE AND DIGITAL FORMATS
- Includes QR codes to videos
- Includes Slides for Seesaw PRELOADED for you!
- Aligned to CCS and TEKS for grades K-2nd.
- Power-Points are included so that you can upload them to Google Classroom
NOTE: This isn't a packet of worksheets. These are actual Lessons that guide you through the process of using Read Alouds to teach the standards for Reading Comprehension.
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The book needed for this unit is:
- The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach (online links to the read-aloud are included)
- National Geographic Kids: Great Migration Butterflies (online links to the read-aloud are included)
Great for Distance Learning, Google Apps, Seesaw Activities, Seesaw Kindergarten, Seesaw first-grade, Seesaw 2nd grade
WHAT TEACHERS LIKE YOU ARE SAYING
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Allysa says, "My students love the engaging activities and great book choices Deanna uses! I love the fact that they are working on many of the standards and rarely know it!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Avita says, "This was a great resource for teaching the life cycle of a monarch. It goes way beyond and more specifically than just 'butterflies'."
SKU: 5477125
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What others say
Description
Are you looking for butterfly and caterpillar read aloud lessons? Check out these plans for the books The Very Impatient Caterpillar and Great Migrations: Butterflies. These interactive reading lesson plans will guide you through your daily instruction in reading comprehension, responding to literature, sentence studies with mentor sentences, crafts and more!
These No Prep Print and Go Lesson Plans will save your teaching life! SERIOUSLY!!!
WHY TEACHERS LOVE THESE READ ALOUD LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES
- These book lessons are so easy to use. Our scripted lessons take the guesswork out of your interactive read alouds planning!
- Reading Comprehension skills are taught spirally all year. This research-based approach helps make practice permanent and ensures students will revisit various reading comprehension skills in REAL WORLD literature.
HOW DO THE ENGAGING READERS READ ALOUD LESSONS WORK?
The teacher does the reading work while the students do the thinking work. These lessons are grounded in research. It is said that the person doing the most talking is the person who is doing the most learning. SO these lessons scaffold instruction to get students talking. Side-by-side, students learn comprehension strategies such as Predicting, Retelling, Text Details, Connecting, Inferring, Opinion Writing and so much more. You won’t believe how quickly students fall in love with your read-aloud time.
Brain research reveals that reading comprehension starts with listening comprehension. Since kindergarten, first grade students, and second grade students have listening skills that far surpass their ability to decode words, it is imperative that they participate in daily deep conversations surrounding books that allow them to strengthen their thinking! Don’t wait! Start building pathways to deeper thinking today!
These units can be used on their own or as a supplement to your current reading curriculum. They are simply the easiest and most enjoyable way to drive up student engagement. Join the thousands of teachers who have transformed their ELA block.
THIS READ ALOUD SET OF BOOKS INCLUDE:
- 5 Day Interactive read aloud discussion lesson plans
- Reading comprehension strategies to help all students deepen their connections and engagement to books. A variety of response page options are available so you can select the one that works best for your students.
- THE VERY IMPATIENT CATERPILLAR: Predictions, retelling, cause and effect, inferring, connections, opinion writing
- GREAT MIGRATIONS - BUTTERFLIES: Schema, butterfly migration, butterfly life cycle, cool facts, connections. writing a nonfiction report about butterflies
- Full color pictorial retelling cards that can be printed or used as a PowerPoint pictorial retelling file for your whiteboard. This sets students up for success! The pictures support students as they strengthen their oral language.
- Interactive writing to support your students where they are.
- Sentence study and activities for each day of the week.
- Grammar study for each day of the week
- Phonics for Kindergarten and first grade
- A directed drawing for the book.
- Rubrics for each response activity
- You can get 2 months of ESGI for FREE by clicking https://www.esgisoftware.com/ and using code PD825.
PRINTABLE AND DIGITAL FORMATS
- Includes QR codes to videos
- Includes Slides for Seesaw PRELOADED for you!
- Aligned to CCS and TEKS for grades K-2nd.
- Power-Points are included so that you can upload them to Google Classroom
NOTE: This isn't a packet of worksheets. These are actual Lessons that guide you through the process of using Read Alouds to teach the standards for Reading Comprehension.
*****************************************************************************
The book needed for this unit is:
- The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach (online links to the read-aloud are included)
- National Geographic Kids: Great Migration Butterflies (online links to the read-aloud are included)
Great for Distance Learning, Google Apps, Seesaw Activities, Seesaw Kindergarten, Seesaw first-grade, Seesaw 2nd grade
WHAT TEACHERS LIKE YOU ARE SAYING
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Allysa says, "My students love the engaging activities and great book choices Deanna uses! I love the fact that they are working on many of the standards and rarely know it!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Avita says, "This was a great resource for teaching the life cycle of a monarch. It goes way beyond and more specifically than just 'butterflies'."
SKU: 5477125
