Teach Literacy

Teach Literacy and Life Lessons with Children's Literature
Engage your students in good books and build a community of readers and writers in your classroom.  Get started with these favorites from my bookshelf.  Find book companions and reader response pages to enhance your reading experience. 
Read. Write. Talk. Listen. Talk. and Learn.  Trust these masterful writers to turn your students into avid readers. Know that the more they love to read, the more they read and the more they read, the more they learn.  Highlight a block of time in your planner for read aloud and listening to a good book.  Reading aloud to your students whets their appetite for books that are a bit challenging but are perfect for the listening level.  Wash new words over your listeners, stop and talk about the story elements and events, model new reading strategies... all of this improves reading achievement. 
Read. Write. Talk. Listen. Talk. Read. Learn.


teaching literacy, first grade, children's literature
The Pout-Pout FishBook Companion
teaching resources for children's literature
Love That Dog Book Companion

teaching literacy, lesson plans for elementary readers
The Snowy Day - Reader Response Pages and Writing Prompts





teaching resources for children's literature
Reader Response Pages for Stellaluna



Charlotte's Web Book Companion



Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
is a FAVORITE read aloud for everyone.
   
Read and reread!  Enjoy the many characters that E.B. White creates and weave through the story.  Fern, Wilbur and of course, Charlotte are memorable and teach us the life lesson of friendship.   You can add these writing prompts and reader response pages to enhance your reading experience.  These pages will engage your students to think about their reading and dive deeper into the meaning of this wonderful book.


Charlotte's Web Reader Response Pages and Story Elements Booklet



children's literature, frog and toad, MrsQuimbyReads, write about reading
Frog and Toad - One of My Very Favorites



Little Red Hen - Book Companion
Little Red Hen - Book Companion