August Interactive Read Aloud Lessons

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

Just dropping in to share August's Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for the following books:  Those Shoes, What Do You Do With a Problem?, The Dot, and The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes.  I love incorporating Interactive Read Alouds, because they allow us to teach a broad range of standards.  You can't cover an ELA standard once, and expect your students to automatically master it.  These allow you to continue to continually revisit it.  If you would like to learn more about Interactive Read Alouds, this article from Reading Rockets does a great job of explaining its components and the WHY.  You will find that each week’s read aloud below will cover several standards, but I focus more heavily on a specific one each week while also including the others.  Each read aloud is designed to cover five days but can be condensed to four depending on your schedule.  All of my read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables.  This month is all about GROWTH MINDSET.  Let's take a look at what my interactive read aloud looks like!

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

I always have an anchor chart that focuses on the main standard for the week.  The first week of August is all about retell of key details, so this will be the anchor chart I use.  I print it as a poster in Adobe, which prints it very large on four pieces of paper.  You can then trim it up and tape it together to make a large poster.  We then laminate it, so that I can reuse it throughout the week and for the following years.  Since it is interactive, I can or students can add to it throughout the week and erase as needed.

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

We will just focus on Those Shoes in today's post.  I always include 3-4 vocabulary words to explicitly teach.  Other vocabulary that may be unknown in the text will only be implicitly taught.  The words above I display in a pocket chart.  I have a routine that I follow that you can find with the unit to teach these words.

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

These sticky notes might be my favorite!  The questioning in the read aloud progresses throughout the week.  We progress from key ideas and details to craft and structure, and then finally to integration of knowledge and ideas types of questions.  The questions can be printed on sticky notes to stick inside your read aloud.  You are now ready to go throughout the week!  No planning!  My friend had the idea to turn the sticky notes sideways when printing.  That way, you can cut the questions apart and place them on the pages in which you will ask the questions!

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

Each week includes a 5-day set of scripted lesson plans.  On day one, we read through the whole text as you can see above.  But throughout the rest of the week, we will only read parts of the book that refer to that day's task.  I include everything you need to do before, during, and after reading the text.  The exit ticket component can be a written or verbal response.  I find that a lot of times, I just wrap up my lesson with a partner talk referring to the exit ticket.  

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

One of the most difficult parts of planning an Interactive Read Aloud are the daily tasks.  The daily tasks all build upon one another to finally prepare students to complete their culminating task.  The daily task is almost always a written journal response.  I try to include multiples on a page to help you save paper and copies.  We all know those copies are precious!

I am all about making my Interactive Read Aloud engaging!  This month, there are a couple of crafts included, which you can see in the listing.  You can also see the Kind Kid hat that we made below.  They all pair with a task, so you won't get in trouble for doing a craft!  ;)

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!


Lots of teachers requested that I also include a multiple choice test over the story.  This test  assesses the focus standard for the week.  This is great test prep, too, since they will begin taking standardized tests in second grade.

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!


Finally, we integrate some language instruction in through a mentor sentence.  The one above is mine that I display.  Students will get a set of the sentence's words to glue in their journal.  We highlight specific parts of the sentence, such as nouns and verbs.  Sometimes, we add details.  We always add an illustration to match our sentence.

You can check out August's Interactive Read Aloud Lesson's below, or you can save BIG below with the bundle for the entire year.  Thanks for stopping by!  I would love to hear from you!  Do you incorporate interactive read alouds into your literacy block?  

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!


Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!

Interactive Read Aloud Lessons for First Grade | Each set of read aloud plans include anchor charts, posters, a daily lesson plan, assessing and advancing questions for partner talk and reading response, vocabulary, mentor sentences, speaking and listening checklists, vocabulary acquisition checklists, and daily and culminating task journal printables, as well as crafts and directed drawing. Get ready for an engaging interactive read aloud!






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