The Kissing Hand Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Brown Bear.. Read Aloud Book Activities

Description

Back to school read aloud books and activities OR a QR code listening center with engaging printable activities. Easily use this set of 8 picture book activities as an independent student task or whole group reading response. This collection of back to school kindergarten book activities includes your favorite beginning of the year titles: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, The Kissing Hand, Brown Bear Brown Bear, and more!

How to use these back to school read aloud books and activities

• Whole Group Read Aloud – Grab a copy of the back to school book to read aloud to your students. Select a printable response activity to complete as an interactive writing task or choose a different activity for word work practice.
• QR Code Listening Center – Add a copy of the book with a CD, or a device for scanning the QR code, to your listening center. Students listen to the story and complete the response sheet independently.
• Sub Plans – Print the activities and leave a copy of the back to school book with your substitute lesson plans. Super easy to prep and great practice for the beginning of the year!
• Parent Volunteer/Instructional Aide Activity – Have them take a small group and read the book. Then, students can respond with one of the printable activities.
• Home Study – If you have a student who is on home study or is taking an extended trip, you can easily send these response pages with the QR code along with them.

Listening Centers are a great way to expose students to vocabulary and book skills. Students will love scanning the QR code and listening to the story during listening centers. There is a QR code on each printable response sheet that is linked to a read aloud video of the book on YouTube.

These back to school book activities were specifically created for each text. There are listen and respond pages and word work activities for each of the books.

Check out what is included in this set of back to school read aloud books and activities:

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

• Listen and Respond: Tell about your first day of school.
• Fine Motor Letter Matching: Cut and glue the lowercase letters to the capital letters.
• Beginning Sound Match – Draw a line to match the picture to each beginning sound.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr.

• Listen and Respond: Make a connection and tell about a time you got hurt.
• Fine Motor Letter Order: Cut and glue the capital letters in order. (2 versions of this activity for easy differentiation)
• Fine Motor Letter Matching: Cut and glue to match the lowercase letters to the capital letters.
• Fine Motor Letter Practice: Cut and glue the alphabet letters on the coconut tree.
• Back to School Coloring Sheet: Use the code to color the letters on the coconut tree.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin, Jr.

• Listen and Respond: Tell about your favorite animal in the book.
• Color Word Matching Option 1: Make matches using the color word cards and pictures. Then, write the color words and color the animal on your paper.
• Color Word Matching Option 2: Make matches using the color word cards and pictures. Then, circle the correct color word and color the animal on your paper.
• Color Word Tracing: Trace the color words with the correct color and color the animal to match.

Cool Dog, School Dog by Deborah Heiligman

• Listen and Respond: Make a connection about a pet you would like to bring to school.
• Fine Motor Letter Practice: Cut and glue the beginning sound to each picture.
• Fine Motor Rhyming: Cut and glue the matching rhyming pictures.

Under the Apple Tree by Steve Metzger

• Listen and Respond: Tell about your favorite part of the story.
• Coloring Sheet: Use the code to color the apples on the apple tree.
• Fine Motor Letter Matching: Cut and glue to match the lowercase letters to the capital letters.

I’m Your Bus by Marilyn Singer

• Listen and Respond: Make a connection about riding a bus.
• Back to School Coloring Sheet: Use the code to color the bus.
• Fine Motor Practice: Cut and glue the beginning sound for each picture.

How Will I Get to School This Year? By Jerry Pallotta

• Listen and Respond: Draw and write about how you get to school.
• Listen and Respond: Draw and write about you could come to school a different way.
• Fine Motor Practice: Cut and glue the beginning letter for each picture.

Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson

• Listen and Respond: Make a connection about a time you felt scared.
• Listen and Respond: Reading Comprehension
• Fine Motor Practice: Cut and glue the beginning sound to each picture.
• Fine Motor Picture Matching: Cut and glue to match the pictures that have the same beginning sound.

WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THESE BACK TO SCHOOL READ ALOUD BOOKS AND ACTIVITIES:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “This resource is wonderful for literacy centers! There are a variety of books with activities to go along with them. They really keep my kinders engaged & they enjoy them!” Danielle J.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I have several of your other Listen Up! sets and was thrilled to find this one with books that I love using at the beginning of the school year! I like to start out the year doing this a a class/group listening activity and then moving them on to doing Listen Up! with their headphones on their own. This resource worked perfectly for this, especially since I already typically read several of these books to start the year! Thank you!” -Robin E.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”Great resource. The listening center is always a favorite with my kinders. I love that this includes several of our beginning of kindergarten books, so the students are already familiar with them. They they are always excited to “read” these books again on their own.” – Amber P.