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February 18, 20257 Picture Book Read Alouds, Turn-N-Talk Activities + Free Download
MAYBE IT'S A BIT OF MIDWEST CABIN FEVER as winter winds down into outdoor planting and fishing and wandering time, but here's a few books that make Great Read Alouds with Turn-N-Talk activities built in.
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Copycat: Nature-Inspired Design Around the World
Invite students to explore how nature gives us ideas we use to create products or enhance inventions. Maybe ask them to write about an ideas (invented or real) and find a picture for it like this author-illustrator, Christy Hale, does. (Images as shared on Amazon)
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Be A Tree
Clever compare-contrast story in Be A Tree! Let Readers see all they can see here! Put a box of animals out or objects and let kids write about what they see! How they compare to a dog or a duck or a tiger... Just enjoy a nice read, some writing, and brainstorming fun. (Images as shared on Amazon)
3
Coyote Moon
What is it like for our wild cousins? What do they hear and see while investigating our world? This book and author does a great job of sharing just that! Read it. Then invite students to share an Animal experience themselves. (Images as shared on Amazon)
4
Mauris rhoncus orci in imperdiet placerat.
A family is moving after a death in the family. Restarting their lives. This is a story that shares the seasons of our lives and how we rebuild like the leaves that come and fall all around us.
5
Lucy! How Lucille Ball Did It All
Funny girl icon legend from the days of I Love Lucy reaches new audiences with a great message about finding your just right spot in the world, perhaps one that can only be yours.
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A Season for Fishin': A Fish Fry Tradition
(On the first Fish Fry Friday of the year, Cher wakes before sunrise. It’s the start of the fishing season. Fishing pole in hand, Cher races to the prized spot down on Ol’ Cane River and Cher reels in batch after batch of bream. But when things go awry, Cher learns the true importance of Fish Fry Friday (images as shared on Farrar, Straus and Giroux website)
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When You Find the Right Rock
Somewhere, a rock is waiting for you. Maybe it is a rock from the heart of a mountain that will remind you of how big YOU are inside, too. Maybe it is a rock washed by the sea that knows all about the backs and forths and ups and downs of things. Maybe it is a small rock, just the right size to close your hand around and know that the rock is with you and it is just right.
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