Interactive Read-Aloud Fourth Grade Kit 1
Mini-lessons for Whole-Group Instruction
Each grade-level kit includes 12 carefully curated trade books, partnered with a corresponding lesson directly linked to the comprehension strategies of the Literacy Footprints lessons. Each book has been selected to reflect engaging illustrations, strong storylines, and a powerful opportunity to teach for deeper meaning. These whole-group lessons provide teachers with the framework to introduce students to the comprehension strategies that will comprise upcoming guided reading lessons.
The Literacy Footprints Interactive Read-Aloud will provide teachers with:
- A carefully curated collection of trade books with corresponding lesson plans
- Lesson plans to teach comprehension strategies through gradual-release model
- Interactive lessons that motivate students to engage with reading
- Prompts and language to encourage students to think deeply and converse with each other about the text
- Writing in response to text to extend and deepen comprehension
- Downloadable materials to support and enhance lessons
Fourth Grade Kit Includes:
- Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet, by Jeanette Winter
- Let the Children March, by Monica Clark-Robinson, illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Islandborn, by Junot Díaz, illustrated by Leo Espinosa
- Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales
- Leaf, by Sandra Dieckmann
- White Socks Only, by Evelyn Coleman, illustrated by Tyrone Geter
- Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist, by Jess Keating , illustrated by Marta Álvarez Miguéns
- Malala’s Magic Pencil, by Malala Yousafzai, illustrated by Kerascoët
- A Bike Like Sergio’s, by Maribeth Boelts, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones
- The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes, by Duncan Tonatiuh
- Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover, by Markus Motum
- The Sea Book: Meet the Marvelous Creatures Living in Our Oceans, by Charlotte Milner
