This HF book is great for IR. Students are able to learn about the first Olympic game. While reading this book, students can monitor their progress (UDL 6.4 enhance capacity for monitoring progress) by completing questions throughout. The teacher can also monitor students‘ comprehension by periodically reviewing the students‘ answers to these questions. (EL strategy 6- continually monitor students‘ comprehension)

This TL book is a great way to introduce (or reintroduce) traditional fairy tales to students. It puts a humorous twist on stories such as The Ugly Duckling and Little Red Riding Hood. This is a great book to use as a RA over several days, since there are several stories within. https://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/stinky-cheese-man-lesson-plan/ is a great resource to review, because it allows students to use their creativity...

This RF novel follows the journey of a daughter and father who have an anything but ordinary relationship. Along their journey they meet several people, who all have an impact on Coyote. This novel is great as a LC book, following the objectives of http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/literature-circle....

This MF, SEL book is a great addition to any classroom. It focuses on the emotion of sadness, which is often a touchy subject. By introducing this book into your classroom, you are creating a positive and welcome place, where students can feel comfortable expressing their feelings. A RA is a great way to read this book, because you can make it interactive with your students.

This beautifully illustrated P book is great for incorporating ELs into PR. Since each poem is also offered in Spanish, this gives a chance for EL students who speak Spanish to comprehend the story better, since they can see it in English and Spanish side by side. This aligns with UDL 2.4- promote understanding across languages.

This SF book can be used as a whole class RT, using the script from https://www.skippyjonjones.com/downloads/Skippyjon-ReadersTheater.pdf. This is a great book for EL students as well since Spanish is incorporated into the text; aligning with El strategy 24- incorporate the culture and language of second language learners in your curriculum. The incorporation on Spanish also aligns with UDL 2.4- promote understanding across languages.

This MF, Blue Peter Best Picture Book To Read Aloud award winner is a beautiful story about a mouse who is clever enough to scare away predators, even the Gruffalo! By performing a RT (http://www.grandviewlibrary.org/archives/2004/12/readers_theater.html), students can build fluencies with graduated levels of support for practice and performance (UDL 5.3).

This Caldecott Award winning MF story is great for boosting students imagination. As students listen to the RA, they can begin to use their imagination to think of how Max is experiencing the place where the wild things are.

This NF book follows a young lion cub, Mara, in her pride. It provides information on lions in the savannah, and what grown lions must do to survive and care for their Cubs. By using this book for PR, EL strategy 2- promote cooperation (small groups) would be applicable. Students can work together by taking turns reading, asking questions, and comprehending the nonfiction text (https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/partner_reading).

This inspirational B book is a great addition to any classroom. It includes 20 influential women- such as Greta Thunberg and Zaha Hadid- and the impact they‘ve had on the world. This book of diverse women can be used to motivate the young girls within our classrooms to follow their dreams.

This is Not My Hat is a great MF book to teach students about honestly, good decision making, and inferencing. During a RA, students can stop and discuss with one another what they infer is going to happen next in the story; aligning with EL strategy 10- teach think, pair and share strategies in cooperative groups. After reading the story, students can work to create their own ending of what they believe happened to the fish, using this resource:

Harry the Dirty Dog is a MF book about a dog who enjoys getting dirty! Throughout the story, we follow Harry on his journey to playing in dirt. We also see Harry‘s problem solving skills when his family doesn‘t recognise him! A great activity to incorporate is a RA, followed by sequencing the events of the story through seesaw (https://app.seesaw.me/activities/closos/sequence-harry-the-dirty-dog).

Rooster‘s Off to See the World is a great MF math book to add to you classroom library. While Rooster is planning on travelling the world, he meets several friends who are added, then subtracted, from his group. A great math activity (https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/roosters-see-world-lesson-plan/) can be used to count and follow the timeline of the story, accounting for all of the animals joining the group.

Dear Girl, is an amazing #1 New York Times Bestseller RF and P book. Being written as a letter brings it a poetic and touching feel. This book is full of positive words to all girls, teaching them about self acceptance and self reflection. It also connects to the book Dear Boy, which I would suggest reading together as a RA.

Big Words for Little People is a fun RF book to use as both a RA and PR. This book can enhance students‘ vocabulary because it is full of new big words! After performing a RA or having PR, students can pair up and use this synonym sheet (https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/big-words-for-little-people)to compare the words within the book, to words they previously knew; which will have them activate their background knowledge.

This MF, Caldecott Honor picture book is great for RT in the classroom (Script https://aroshiblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/choral-reading-cowsthattype1.pdf ) Students can take turns reading for each character, and reading out the onomatopoeia within the book. Another strategy for this book is CR. Each time the teacher reads “click, clack, moo”, the students can repeat after the teacher, enhancing their fluency.

Waiting is Not Easy is another great MF, SEL book that won the Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor! Including this book in your classroom would be a good way to teach students about patience, and the benefits that come out of being patient; as shown in this book. A great resource for this book is this PDF https://education.byu.edu/sites/default/files/buildingsocialskills/Waiting-is-no....

Don‘t Feed the WorryBug is a great MF, SEL book to have in the classroom. It teaches students what worrying is, and how it can affect them if they let it control them. This book can help to create a positive classroom that promotes building students emotional awareness. The worrywoos.com website has a multitude of both at home and in the classroom resources to include this book in your lessons.

This TL book is a creative way to stretch students‘ imagination. It‘s hard to guess what the old lady will swallow next. The items get bigger and crazier than the last, and keep students on their toes! You can use this book in the classroom to boost student creativity, and to enhance engagement during a read aloud. A reader‘s theatre would be a great way to get students moving and interacting with the story.

All Are Welcome is a wonderful book for inclusion and diversity in the classroom. This can be beneficial for the first day of school to represent the differences in each student, and to help make these differences feel welcome. This book walks through the a day of school, showing a multitude of different cultures, races, and religions, and re-enforces that they all are welcome. This is also great for incorporating social-emotional learning!