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Joyful Read Aloud Experiences: Creating a Caring Classroom Maria Walther, First Grade Teacher

Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School, Aurora, IL [email protected] www.mariawalther.com Twitter @mariapwalther

***=See Read Aloud Experience in The Ramped-Up Read Aloud (Walther, 2019)

WELCOMING STUDENTS TO YOUR CLASSROOM

Read Alouds to Welcome Students to Your Caring Classroom Community All are Welcome (Penfold, 2018) The Big Umbrella (Bates, 2018) Be Kind (Miller, 2018) We Don’t Eat Our Classmates (Higgins, 2018)

BUILDING RELATIONSHIP SKILLS AT SCHOOL *Note each of the learning experiences described below will take more than one day! Establishing Classroom Norms and Expectations

Read Alouds about Classroom Community and/or Classroom Rules Me First (Lester, 1992) Swimmy (Lionni, 1968) ***Rulers of the Playground (Kuefler, 2017) See Ramped-Up p. 50

This School Year Will Be the BEST! (Winters, 2010)

1. Read aloud a poem or picture book about school community or school norms and expectations. 2. Discuss school norms and expected classroom choices that allow students to be successful in school. 3. Share and discuss students’ ideas and record their ideas in notebook or on chart paper. 4. Create a “classroom norms” anchor chart. Composing a Class Promise 1. Read aloud a poem or book about promises like I Promise (McPhail, 2017). 2. Share and discuss students’ ideas, record in notebook or on chart paper. 3. Collaborate with class to compose a class promise (see below for examples).

Our Promise to Each Other When we care about each other and

our classroom, we share what we have, listen carefully, help each

other learn, work hard, and have fun together. We understand that

everyone makes mistakes. We stand up for ourselves and for others.

When someone asks us to stop, we stop. This is who we are even when

no one is watching!

Source: Reading for Meaning by Debbie Miller (Also in Teaching Struggling

Readers With Poetry p. 33)


Signing the Class Promise/Making “Faces” Project Read Alouds about Being Unique

Be Who You Are (Parr, 2016) It’s OK to Be Different (Parr, 2001) Beautiful Hands (Otoshi, 2015) The OK Book (Rosenthal, 2007) Bein’ With You This Way (Nikola-Lisa, 1994) Only One You (Kranz, 2006) The Colors of Us (Katz, 2001) A Rainbow of Friends (Hallinan, 2002)

1. Read aloud a poem or book about the ways people are similar and different. 2. Reread the Class Promise. 3. Invite each child to sign the promise. 4. Take a digital picture of class promise. Print out and put in booklet. 5. Project: Make faces to surround Class Promise or take students’ photographs to surround Class Promise Using “Whole Body” Listening Definition: Whole Body Listening is when your eyes, ears, mouth, hands, arms, legs, and feet are calm and quiet. when your body is calm and quiet you are able to listen with your whole body; it helps you pay attention to what people are doing around you and it shows others you are thinking about them.

Read Alouds about Listening Listen Buddy (Lester, 1997) Whole Body Listening Larry at School (Sautter & Wilson,

2011) Telephone (Barnett, 2014) *Great before “Operator” game Wordy Birdy (Sauer, 2018)

1. Read aloud a book or poem about listening. 2. Introduce “Whole Body Listening.” 3. Play “operator” to demonstrate the importance of listening.

My eyes are watching. My ears are listening. My mouth is quiet. My hands are still.

My brain is thinking. My heart is caring. My feet are still.


SELF AWARENESS Identifying Feelings and Emotions

Read Alouds about Feelings and Emotions How Are You Peeling: Foods With Moods (Freyman, 1999) Walther Was Worried (Seeger, 2006) It’s Not Fair (Rosenthal, 2008) The Way I Feel (Cain, 2000) Theo’s Moods (Cocca-Leffler, 2013) Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day (Curtis,

1. Read aloud a poem or book about feelings/emotions. 2. Discuss and identify basic feelings and emotions

a. Identify facial expressions that portray different emotions b. Role play different feelings/emotions c. Create an anchor chart with words children can use to describe how characters are feeling.

Learning How to Cool Off ** Make fan on large piece of chart paper

Read Alouds about Anger and Calming Down ***Horrible Bear (Dyckman, 2016) *Book Trailer See Ramped-Up p. 32

When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry (Bang, 1999)

Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie (Rankin, 2007) What Are You So Grumpy About? (Lichtenheld, 2007)

1. Read aloud a poem/book about feelings/emotions 2. Discuss ways to cool off at school. 3. Brainstorm ideas on “fan” anchor chart.


Use Your Social Filter Read Alouds that lead to discussions of Using Social Filter

Interrupting Chicken (Stein, 2010) Words and Your Heart (Neal, 2015)

Definition: You might hurt someone's feelings. Everyone has something in their brain called a “Social Filter.” A social filter is the way you think about a situation to figure out an appropriate response, and how it will make others feel. 1. Review Whole Body Listening and connect good listening to thinking and speaking. 2. Use water, coffee grounds and a filter to introduce the concept of a “filter”. Explain that

just like the coffee filter traps the unwanted (dirty) grinds so only the “good stuff” comes out; we use our social filter to think about how our words might affect someone before we speak. There are times you will think something you just shouldn’t say.

3. Create anchor chart to show the steps to using your social filter: How to Use Your Social Filter • Take a breath when you

have something to say. • Stop and think about what

you want to say. • Think about how those

words will make someone feel.

• Speak kindly or say nothing.

Your Social Filter Helps You • Protect a friend’s feelings • Show respect to teachers

and other adults at Brooks • Make expected choices • Avoid being embarrassed

Understanding the Difference Between Bullying and Bothering

Read Alouds about Bullying and Standing Up for Others Bully (Seeger, 2013) Say Something (Moss, 2008) I Walk With Vanessa (Kerascoet, 2018) [Wordless Book] ***The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade (Roberts, 2014) See

Ramped-Up p. 55 Peanut Butter and Jellyfish (Krosoczka, 2014) Stick and Stone (Ferry, 2015) The Recess Queen (O’Neill, 2002) Two of a Kind (Robbins, 2009) Yoon and the Jade Bracelet (Recorvits, 2008)

1. Read aloud a poem or book about bullying 2. Discuss the difference between bullying and bothering and how each situation makes children feel


Practicing How to “Talk it Out” Read Alouds about Friendship or Conflicts

Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores (Howe, 1999) The Secret Olivia Told Me (Joy, 2007) ***Horrible Bear (Dyckman, 2016) *Book Trailer See Ramped-Up p. 32

The Story of Fish and Snail (Freedman, 2013)

Pug and Doug (Breen, 2013) What James Said (Rosenberg, 2015) 1. Read aloud a book or poem about friendship or conflicts. 2. Model and practice appropriate ways to ask someone to stop (adapted from Reading for Meaning by Debbie Miller). Use chart below to guide your discussion. 3. Role play “Talking It Out.”

Being a Flexible Thinker

Read Alouds about Flexible Thinking Beautiful Oops! (Saltzberg, 2010) ***A Perfectly Messed-Up Story (McDonnell, 2014) See Ramped-Up

p. 58 The Book of Mistakes (Luyken, 2017) Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes (Litwin, 2011) It’s Okay to Make Mistakes (Parr, 2014) What Do You Do With a Problem (Yamada, 2016) The Odd Egg (Gravett, 2008) What To Do With a Box (Yolen, 2016)

When someone is annoying or hurting me I can . . . Look the person in the eye and nicely say, I don’t like it when you ________. It makes me feel ____________. I want ____________________. When someone tells you this, what can you say back? Look the person in the eye and nicely say, I heard you say ______________


RECOGNIZING OTHERS’ FEELINGS AND PERSPECTIVES

Being a Kind Friend Read Alouds about Friendship

***Be a Friend (Yoon, 2016) See Ramped-Up p. 46 Life is Fun (Carlson, 1993) Enemy Pie (Munson, 2000) and Let’s Be Enemies (Udry, 1961) Peanut Butter & Cupcake (Border, 2014) Friendshape (Rosenthal, 2015) ***A Small Blue Whale (Ferry, 2017) See Ramped-Up p. 122 The Friend Ship (Yeh, 2016) *Big Idea-Inviting others to join you

***You Will Be My Friend! (Brown, 2011) *Also good for point of view/perspective See Ramped-Up p. 86

How to Lose All of Your Friends (Carlson, 1997)

Celebrating Differences Read Alouds about Celebrating Differences

Big Al (Clements, 1991) Odd Velvet (Whitcomb, 1998) Exclamation Mark (Rosenthal, 2013) The Sandwich Swap (Al Abdullah, 2010) Freckleface Strawberry (Moore, 2007) Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon (Lovell, 2001) ***The Invisible Boy (Ludwig, 2013) See Ramped-Up p. 38 ***Strictly No Elephants (Mantchev, 2015) *Emily Arrow

Song See Ramped-Up p. 44 Janine (Cocca-Leffler, 2015) My Three Best Friends and Me, Zula (Best, 2015) ***Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match (Brown, 2011) *Bilingual See Ramped-Up p. 42

Tommy Can’t Stop (Federle, 2015)

Mixed: A Colorful Story (Chung, 2018) Too Loud Lilly (Laguna, 2004) Neither (Anderson, 2018) We’re All Wonders (Palacio, 2017) ***Nerdy Birdy (Reynolds, 2015) See Ramped-Up p. 36


Professional Resources Biggs-Tucker, K., & Tucker, B. (2015). Transforming Literacy Teaching in the Era of Higher Standards, 3-5. Scholastic. Fuhler, C. J., & Walther, M. P. (2007). Literature Is Back! Using the Best Books for Teaching Readers and Writers Across Genres. Scholastic. Johnston, P. H. (2012). Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Lives. Stenhouse. Johnston, P. H. (2004). Choice Words: How our Language Affects Children’s Learning. Stenhouse. Laminack, L. L., and Wadsworth, R. M. (2012). Bullying Hurts: Teaching Kindness through Read Alouds and Guided Conversations. Heinemann. Richardson, J., & Walther, M. P. (2013). The Next Step Guided Reading Assessment, K-2. New York: Scholastic. Richardson, J., & Walther, M. P. (2013). The Next Step Guided Reading Assessment, 3-6. New York: Scholastic. Walther, M. P. (2019). The Ramped-Up Read Aloud: What to Notice as You Turn the Page. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Walther, M. P. (2015). Transforming Literacy Teaching in the Era of Higher Standards, K-2. Scholastic. Walther, M. P., & Biggs-Tucker, K. (2019, in press). Blurring the Lines: An Integrated Reading-Writing Workshop. Portland, ME: Stenhouse. Walther, M. P., & Fuhler, C. J. (2010). Teaching Struggling Readers with Poetry. Scholastic. Walther, M. P., & Phillips, K. A. (2009). Month-by-Month Trait-Based Writing Instruction. Scholastic. Walther, M. P., & Phillips, K. A. (2012). Month-by-Month Reading Instruction for the Differentiated Classroom. Scholastic.

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