Main Idea Picture Book Companion | Read Aloud Lesson

Description

Using picture books provides an authentic, fun way for students to engage with essential reading skills. We’ve designed this series of main idea lessons to help you bring picture books into your classroom in a low-prep, high-engagement format.

This resource has activities for two different books. Both books have similar plot points and themes for students to compare and contrast. Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty and Raise Your Hand by Alice Paul Tapper are both about kids who overcome challenges and are courageous in the face of adversity.

We cannot wait for your students to reach their peak when learning and applying their main idea skills in these activities!

Tell me about what’s included!

Student Objectives to display
Book Summaries

Detailed Lesson Plans:

• These lessons are carefully designed to incorporate main idea with the picture books.
• Detailed teacher instructions are included to guide students through the accompanying activities.

Printable Activities and Worksheets

• Includes activities for the individual books and activities to make connections between both books.

Discussion Questions and Printables:

• Questions for before, during, and after reading
• Sticky note template for the during reading questions to place into the books ahead of time

Companion Book Suggestions to make connections between multiple books

Why use picture books to teach reading skills? Picture books bring reading skills to life! Picture books are short but beautiful authentic texts that help students see reading skills from different perspectives. We can use picture books to explicitly teach these important skills. Picture books have concrete stories and characters to reference as they continue to think about these skills. As a bonus, picture books are highly engaging for students!

This picture book companion lesson is the perfect accompaniment to our Main Idea Reading Lesson!

⭐⭐Need more practice with main idea and details? Check out these resources!⭐⭐
Main Idea Task Cards

⭐Looking for more tips and tricks on teaching main idea and details? Check out this blog post!⭐
The Complete Guide to Teaching Main Idea and Theme

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