Book Companions: CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS – A-Book-A-Day Reading Challenge

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These first week of school read alouds will easily engage your students and meet your A Book A Day challenge with these no prep book companion resources focused on teaching classroom expectations!

WHAT TITLES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE?

• Do Unto Otters by Laurie Keller

• The Invisible Boy by Patrice Barton

• The Good Egg by Jory John

• The Bad Seed by Jory John

• Enemy Pie by Derek Munson

WHAT IS THE FOCUS OF THIS GROUP OF BOOKS?

These texts were grouped because they are all great Back to School books that give a perspective on how to treat others and prompt discussion of what is expected of students as they interact with peers in the classroom.

WHAT IS INCLUDED WITH THIS RESOURCE?

• Mini-Lesson PowerPoint

• PDF printable resources

• Response slides in Google Classroom

• Response slides formatted for Microsoft Teams

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN EACH MINI LESSON POWERPOINT?

• 3 “Before Reading” slides to introduce the text, get the students thinking, and set a purpose for reading

• Link to an online read aloud

• 3 “After Reading” slides including a discussion question, writing prompt, and 5 open-ended comprehension questions from the text

• Closure slide to reiterate the lesson or purpose of the read aloud

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PDF?

• Teacher Guide

• Book spines for book a day display

• Bookshelf decor item for bookshelf display

• Book covers for book a day display

• Graphic Organizer

• Story Retell Sheet

• Book Recommendation Sheet

• 5 open-ended question comprehension check

WHY A BOOK A DAY?

The #abookaday challenge was created by Donalyn Miller, author of The Book Whisperer.

For the past two years I have committed to reading aloud a book a day to my students and the impact has been great. In the past two years (more so than the seven before) my class became a group of learners that valued reading. If an early dismissal or assembly altered our schedule, I would have to find another time to squeeze in the read aloud because the kids were not willing to take a day off.

WHY I CREATED THIS RESOURCE

I created this resource to help teachers fulfill their #abookaday challenge in a meaningful and simple way without compromising consistency or depth.

I try to plan my read alouds a unit at a time so that I am not scrambling, but I was still winging it through unless I had set aside time to come up with discussion questions and extension opportunities for eager kids or for when we had extra time. I started created mini PowerPoints for the read alouds so that everything would be in one place when I sat down to read the book of the day. Those PowerPoints have been combined and polished to create this resource that I hope will help other teachers implement a book a day in an easier and more consistent way.