Interactive Read-Aloud Third 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
Third Grade Kit Includes:
- The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Folk Tale Classic, by Hans Christian Andersen, designed and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton
- The Chinese Emperor’s New Clothes, by Ying Chang Compestine, illustrated by David Roberts
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice, by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
- Koala, by Claire Saxby, illustrated by Julie Vivas
- The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs, by Kate Messner, illustrated by Matthew Forsythe
- If Sharks Disappeared, by Lily Williams
- Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla, by Katherine Applegate, illustrated by G. Brian Karas
- Ida, Always, by Caron Levis, illustrated by Charles Santoso
- The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist, by Cynthia Levinson, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton
- Voices in the Park, by Anthony Browne
- I (Don’t) Like Snakes, by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Luciano Lozano
- Each Kindness, by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis
