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These non-traditional and high interest activities will help your students reflect about their reading, encourage others to check out their favorite books, and share their love for reading with their friends and classmates!
- Books and babies. Babies love to listen to the human voice. What better way than through reading! What you’ll need: Some books written especially for babies (books made of cardboard or cloth with flaps to lift and holes to peek through).
- Tot talk. What’s “old hat” to you can be new and exciting to toddlers and preschoolers. When you talk about everyday experiences, you help children connect their world to language and enable them to go beyond that world to new ideas.
- R and R – repetition and rhyme. Repetition makes books predictable, and young readers love knowing what comes next. What you’ll need: Books with repeated phrases (Favorites are: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst; Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
- Poetry in motion. When children “act out” a good poem, they learn to love its rhyme, rhythm, and the pictures it paints with a few well-chosen words.
May 4, 2021 · Books Come Alive for Children With Picture Book Activities. Crafts, questions, journal pages, printables activities for your favorite books!
- 10 Little Rubber Ducks Book Activities. BOOK ACTIVITY: Mommy and Me Book Club.
- Spoon Book Activities. BOOK ACTIVITY The Educators’ Spin On It.
- Today I Feel Silly Book Activity. BOOK ACTIVITY: B-Inspired Mama.
- You are My Work of Art Book Activities. BOOK ACTIVITY: Play Dr Mom. BOOK ACTIVITY: Starry Night Apple Print Project.
- Ten Little Dinosaurs. Ten Little Dinosaurs Props – Download and use these free props during your circle time.
- Rainbow Fish. Rainbow Fish Playdough – This beautiful tray setup invites preschoolers to create a colorful Rainbow Fish of their own. (Fantastic Fun and Learning)
- The Very Busy Spider. Very Busy Spider Webs – Practice lacing with paper plate and twine spider webs from The Very Busy Spider for fine motor skills. (Crafting Chicks)
- Put Me in the Zoo. Put Me in the Zoo Plate – Create this cute face from Put Me in the Zoo using paper plates, paint, and pompoms. (Surviving a Teacher’s Salary)
This free Educator’s Guide contains picture book recommendations and corresponding activities that are aligned to Common Core standards and explore ideas like family, friendship, history, and folklore, as well as resources that cater to a variety of different learning styles.
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Nov 13, 2019 · Picture books bring tremendous benefits to kids who are in the early stages of developing their reading skills. Illustrations shown alongside text offer invaluable tools to help kids build understanding, fluency, vocabulary and other foundational literacy skills.
