These picture books are great for teaching about setting to your first grade students. Students will better understand how a setting can affect a character and story elements when hearing and studying these mentor texts. #missingtoothgrins #bookstoteachsetting

Need some great mentor texts for teaching character and character traits? I've compiled a bunch into one reading list for you. These books are great to help teach reading skills about characters and they make great resources for reading comprehension activities too! These books offer simple ways of teaching a variety of reading skills in a comprehensible way. Click the pin to see all the picture books included!

I recently blogged about the books I read in August and September as we focus on illustration, print concepts, and characters. As October rolls around we focus on setting and story elements and I wanted to share some of my FAVORITE picture books I use to teach these skills: Owl Moon by […]

These books are the perfect mentor texts to teach main character and character traits in the primary grades. Students in kindergarten, first, and second grade will enjoy these picture books to learn about character.

Check out this comprehensive list of the best books for teaching story elements! These picture books are a great way to introduce story elements in kindergarten and first grade. Each of these stories makes a good mentor text to follow up with activities, worksheets, graphic organizers, or small group lessons. Get ideas to teach reading skills during language arts by using reading workshop and guided reading to encourage kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade literacy. Read more here!

4th Grade Teachers... where you at?! Katie and I just got finished with our very first 4th grade book unit! Actually, it is aligned with 3rd and 4th grade

We started the year with a new idea for our Language Arts. We are doing themes this year, which I just LOVE! We started out the year with...

SaveSave

One way to teach children positive character traits is through reading picture books with characters who exemplify beneficial characteristics.

Are you struggling to teach character traits? Follow these 9 steps to make teaching character traits in elementary fun and easy!