Develop self-awareness, confidence and a sense of belonging with these all about me books for preschool and kindergarten! These back to school books include Marvelous Me, I Like me, I Am Enough and more! Pair these all about me read alouds with any all about me activities, all about me crafts, or back to school activities on the first day of school. Plus, see an all about me backpack craft which is one of the best getting to know activities and back to school crafts for the first week of school!

10 Uplifting All About Me Books for Back to School

Building a strong classroom community is essential at the start of the school year! It’s important for students to feel…

Explore this ultimate list of Valentine's Day books for kids, celebrating themes of love, friendship, and kindness. This list of Valentines books for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade is perfect for February! Pair any of these books for Valentine's Day with your favorite Valentine's Day centers, Valentine's Day crafts, or Valentine's Day activities! These Valentine books for kids are perfect for your classroom Valentine's Day party! Discover the full list of Valentine's books here!

25 Best-Selling Valentine’s Day Books for Kids

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to nurture love, friendship, and kindness in the classroom! Reading a variety of Valentine’s…

Countdown to Christmas with these fiction and nonfiction reindeer books for kids! Learn all about reindeer with the list of nonfiction books, or enjoy a whimsical holiday story about reindeer with the fiction reindeer read alouds. This list of reindeer books is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students. Add these books about reindeer to your collection of reindeer activities, reindeer crafts for kids, Christmas crafts, Christmas books and caribou books for kids!

20 Magical Reindeer Books for Kids at Christmas

As the holiday season approaches, I love to swap out our turkey books for Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and many more…

Celebrate the diverse holidays and traditions around the world with these must-read holidays around the world books for kids! These holiday books for kids are great for fostering an inclusive classroom around the holiday season. Discover Hanukkah books for kids, Kwanzaa books for kids, Las Posadas books for kids, Diwali books, and St. Lucia's books. Christmas books for kids, Ramadan books and Chinese New Year books can also be found on this ultimate list of holidays around the world activities!

The Best 60 Holidays Around the World Books for Kids

As the holiday season quickly approaches, I am always on the hunt for ways to bring a bit of magic…

Pair these fiction and nonfiction apple books for kids with your favorite apple crafts, apple centers, or apple activities this fall! These books about apples are great for teaching students about the life cycle of an apple, how to make apple recipes, and more! You will also find apple week books with applesauce recipes for crockpot applesauce. Include these apple books in your apple unit and apple investigation activities. Discover the full list of apple read alouds perfect for your Apple Day!

20 Awesome Apple Books for Kids

A crunchy, juicy, tart apple is a sure sign that fall is here! What better way to welcome fall than…

Help students better understand the informational writing process with these informational writing mentor texts, authors and series! This comprehensive list of mentor texts for informational writing will help build confident writers as they dive into writing their own informational writing piece or all about writing piece. These writing mentor texts are filled with nonfiction text features. Use these as part of your writing mini lessons or independent writing activities during writing workshop!

20 of the Best Informational Writing Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

Informational writing is one of the most challenging writing units to teach at the early elementary level. With the help…

Boost engagement and help students better understand procedural writing with these 15 how-to writing mentor texts for kindergarten and first grade! These procedural writing mentor texts help students understand sequential writing as well as transition words for their how-to writing pieces. Use these how-to mentor texts for your writing mini lessons and allow students to use them as a model as they work on their own informational writing. You will also find how-to writing activities & crafts!

20 of the Best How-To Writing Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

How-to writing is one of my students’ favorite units of writing! Aren’t they always so eager to be the teacher?!…

Opinion writing can be a bit of a struggle for kindergarten and first grade students, but it doesn’t have to be that way! Here are 20 opinion writing mentor texts that will help students construct their opinion writing or persuasive writing piece. These mentor texts for opinion writing include The Day The Crayons Quit, Red is Best, and Hey, Little Ant. Plus, find opinion writing activities, including The Day The Crayons Quit activity and craft. Read these opinion writing books today!

20 of the Best Opinion Writing Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

As we all know, kindergartners are full of opinions! However, teaching them how to write an opinion writing piece can…

Students will gobble up these fiction and nonfiction turkey books throughout the month of November! These turkey books for kids are great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students! Students will learn all about turkeys with these engaging turkey read alouds. Integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with the turkey activities and turkey crafts found in this post. Great for Thanksgiving math centers or Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Turkey Books for Kids at Thanksgiving

With a blink of an eye, it’s already November which means it’s time to swap out those Halloween books for…

Celebrate Fire Prevention Month with this comprehensive list of fiction and nonfiction fire safety books for kids. Pair these first safety books for preschool, kindergarten or first grade with your favorite fire safety activities and fire safety crafts. There are 25 books about fire safety, including books about firefighters, books about fire drills, books about fire trucks and more. Read these fire books, firefighter books and fire truck books during your morning meeting or reading block!

Fire Safety Books for Fire Safety Week

Fire safety is such an important topic for our young learners. Over the years, I have had so much fun…

Teaching students about classroom rules & classroom routines and procedures just got a whole lot easier with this ultimate list of back to school books about rules! These read alouds will help with classroom management as you review classroom procedures with your elementary students. You can pair these back to school books for kids with your favorite back to school activities. Students learn how to take care of classroom supplies, kindness, and all about following directions and listening.

Books to Teach Rules for Back to School

Building classroom community and establishing clear routines, expectations and procedures are my main focus during the first few weeks of…

Back to school books are a great way to calm your students first day jitters. Today, I am sharing over 40 back to school read alouds for kids that will help them adjust to their new classroom and get excited about the school year. These back to school books for preschool, kindergarten and first grade pair great with first week lesson plans, back to school crafts and more. Find back to school activities and more in this list of back to school read alouds.

Back to School Books to Calm First Day Fears

Your students are headed back to school, and chances are they are a little nervous! For some of them, it…