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BIG Update May 1, 2025! Are you looking for a read aloud based library curriculum with no prep needed? Look no further! Includes 40 library lesson plans and activities per grade level for kindergarten through fifth grade. Check the preview for the list of recommended book titles before you purchase!Stop spending your planning time searching for what you should be teaching. All you need to do is get the books, print the activities, and you are all prepped for the entire year! Includes 240 lessons

Everything you need for the first two weeks of classes in the library! Includes read alouds, step by step directions for how to model library expectations and check out directions. All ideas come from my ten plus years of experience in the elementary library. Trust me when I say that these things work!Everything included for:Week 1:Send letter home to familiesRead aloud to Pre-K through 5Complete Library Orientation PowerPoint™Check Out OR Library Expectations PowerPoint™ (K-2) or Library Survey

No prep library emergency sub plans for K-5! Includes THREE books for THREE WEEKS of plans! Get the books, make copies of the activities, and put them in a drawer for whenever you are out. Each grade level has a different activity. Stop stressing about your sub plans and get these lessons! All text is fully editable in PowerPoint.Recommended Book Titles:· Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena (includes six activities)· Ivan the Remarkable Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine A

HUGE UPDATE April 2026! Looking for simple STEM challenges to go with awesome picture books? Here are 60 different read alouds and related STEM challenges! All challenges work with grades K-5. Challenges are designed for 45-1 hour class including the read aloud time. You can split into two classes if necessary. All materials listed are reusable, but you must purchase the materials.Includes:BACK TO SCHOOL - 10 picture book titles and 10 related STEM challengesGROWTH MINDSET - 5 picture book title

Do you need ideas for how to run your library classes? This resource has everything you need from warmup activities like book bins, how the whole class can check out at once in under ten minutes, how to use agenda slides, and sample schedules for all lengths of library classes. Best of all? Very little prep on your part! These ideas work for K-5 so no more scrambling to change things in between classes.Includes:Sample schedules for 30 minutes, 40 minutes, and 55 minutesStep by step directions fo

Are you looking for ideas on how to run your elementary library? Looking for library classroom management ideas? How to collaborate with teachers? How to plan your lessons? This guide provides you with tons of ideas and options for tackling the everyday tasks in an elementary library that have worked in my ten years of experience!INCLUDES:79 pages of ideas and options to try in your library14 full pages on classroom management including specific behaviors and ideas to tryTen easy NO PREP bulleti

Looking for a full year Pre-K library curriculum that focuses on great read alouds and simple library skills that help introduce students to the library? Look no further. Includes 44 lessons designed for 15-55 minute classes. YOU CHOOSE which elements you want to include during your class period. Each class should follow the same structure and routine. Check the preview for a list of recommended book titles!NOTE: This is ONE full year library curriculum for Pre-K OR Kindergarten. It does not con

Are you looking to update your digital citizenship lessons? This mini-curriculum focuses on one-class lessons with fun read alouds and simple digital citizenship skills. It includes 24 lessons: 8 for third grade, 8 for fourth grade, and 8 for fifth grade.Each lesson includes an AASL standard, learning target, recommended read aloud title, step-by-step directions, printable activity AND directions for a blank PowerPoint or Google Slide and sample slide activities.YOU DECIDE if you want students t

Updated October 2024! If you need new ideas for sixth grade, check this out! Includes 44 lessons including read aloud recommendations, step-by-step directions, AASL Standards, learning targets, web resources, and fully editable activities.Lessons included:One-class Lessons:Library OrientationLibrary OrganizationDatabase Scavenger HuntWebsite CredibilityCiting Your SourceGenreMultiple Class Projects:Author’s Purpose (entertain, inform, persuade)Graphic NovelsCountries researchBlack Inventors rese

Library sub plans for K-5! Three lessons per grade level for a total of 18 lessons. That's THREE WEEKS of plans!! Includes a different picture book title, step by step directions, and printable activity for each lesson. There is a different picture for each lesson. You will need to get the picture books. No laptops or technology needed for students or the teacher. Some activities have the teacher find a picture to project at the beginning of class but it is not necessary. NOTE:  I sell two su

BIG Update May 2025! Are you looking for library activities that require no prep and focus on amazing read alouds? This bundle includes library lesson plans for third, fourth, and fifth grade. There are 40 lessons per grade level for a total of 120 lessons. Check the preview for the list of recommended book titles before you purchase!All you need to do is get the books, print the activities, and you are all prepped for the entire year! Stop stressing about what to plan every week!Topics:Story el

UPDATED NOVEMBER 2024! If you want picture book recommendations and related activities, this is for you! Stop stressing about your lesson plans for the week and use these great read alouds and activities. All lessons focus on a library skill so you can use them for your normal planning, sub plans, or anything else.Each lesson includes:Step by step lesson directions with learning targetsAASL StandardEditable activities:K-2: Printable activities3-5: Printable activities or blank PowerPoint or Goog

UPDATED March 2025! Get these FUN poetry lessons for K-5! Includes six picture book titles and different activities for Poetry. All lessons include a read aloud recommendation, learning target, step-by-step directions, editable activities, and sample activities. Many activities can be adapted for other grade levels.RECOMMENDED POETRY TITLES:Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha ArcherIf I Were a Tree by Andrea ZimmermanWet Cement by Bob RaczkaGuess Who Haiku by Deanna CaswellSoccerverse by Elizabeth Stei

Looking for engaging read alouds and library activities for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade? This includes 40 library lesson plans per grade level for a total of 120 lessons! Check the preview for the list of recommended book titles before you purchase!All you need to do is get the books, print the activities, and you are all prepped for the entire year!Topics:Story elements (character, setting, events in a story, beginning, middle end, author, illustrator)Book awardsFiction/nonficti

This is the perfect library research project or classroom project! Want a new spin on animal research? This is the best project ever! Designed for four classes, this project has students researching two animals and creating their own animal battle, using facts from their research. Third grade, fourth grade, or fifth grade is the sweet spot for this project!Includes:Step by step directions, broken down by each classLearning targets for each classRead aloud recommendations for every classWebsite r

Are you a librarian looking for library lessons with author and illustrator studies for an entire year? Each lesson includes a read aloud title, step-by-step directions, printable activities, and sample activities. Each grade level has 54 lessons, so you can pick and choose which ones you want to teach and save the rest for sub plans! These are all one-class lessons and can be done in any order. The entire bundle is 324 lessons so you can stop stressing about lesson planning every week!Want a sa

No prep library emergency sub plans for K-5! Includes THREE books for THREE WEEKS of plans! Get the books, make copies of the activities, and put them in a drawer for whenever you are out. Each grade level has a different activity. Stop stressing about your sub plans and get these lessons! All text is fully editable in PowerPoint.Recommended Book Titles:· What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night by Refe and Susan Tuma (includes six activities)· If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen (includes six activ

For the elementary librarian who wants engaging read alouds and lessons for the end of the year! Includes lessons for two weeks for grades K-5. There are two lessons per grade level for K-5, for a total of 12 lessons with different read alouds and activities. Each lesson includes: recommended read aloud, step-by-step directions, AASL standard, editable activity, and sample activity.Third, fourth, and fifth grade lessons have printable activities or activities for using a blank PowerPoint or Goog

Looking for read alouds and related activities to cover all holidays in your library? Here you go! This bundle includes 72 lessons for students in grades K-5. There are six activities per holiday. No technology is required.Each lesson includes:Recommended book titleStep-by step-directions, learning target, and standardsPrintable activity with sampleSome holidays have Blank PowerPoint/Google Slide option for grades 3-5No tech required! Click the preview so you know exactly what you are getting.Ho

Spruce up your nonfiction section with this nonfiction library signage for any library! Your students be able to find nonfiction books all on their own and it will make it a dream to shelve. It includes Dewey and no Dewey options and it DOES NOT require you to relabel your entire library!Includes:95 editable signs fit for magazine files (you need to purchase the magazine files)95 editable small nonfiction cards (no magazine files needed!)Dewey or no Dewey optionsTwo size options for cardboard ma