Unicorns Are the Worst Read Aloud Lesson Plans and Comprehension Activities

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SUPERCHARGE your read aloud lesson plans with these print and teach activities!

These No Prep Print and Go Lesson Plans will save your teaching life! SERIOUSLY!!!

For this unit, you will need to purchase the book:  Unicorns are the WORST by Alex Willan

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.
• Common Core State Standards and TEKS standards aligned for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.

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, Visualizing, Retelling, Text Details, Connecting, Inferring, Character Analysis, 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.

EACH BOOK INCLUDES DAILY:

• 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.
• 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.
• A craft for each book.
• QR code that links the response pages to a video version of the book.
• Additionally, reading and phonics assessments have been added to ESGI which you can access for FREE with your ESGI subscription.
• You can get 2 months of ESGI for FREE by clicking https://www.esgisoftware.com/ and using code PD825.

NOTE: This isn’t a packet of worksheets. These Engaging Readers read aloud lessons and activities actually guide you through the process of using quality read-aloud books to teach the standards for reading comprehension.

This interactive read aloud unit will save you hours of work because EVERYTHING is all planned out with easy to follow lesson plans.  Just add the book!

Just PRINT (or add to your digital classroom platform) and TEACH! Each week focuses on one book and takes you through a variety of lessons to get your kids reading like never before.