First 20 Days of Reading Lesson Plans and Reader’s Notebook Tools (Grades 3-5)

Description

Plan your first 20 days of reading in grades 3–5. This guide includes lessons and printable tools for launching reading notebooks, fiction vs. nonfiction, and building strong reading routines.

This guide will help you plan your first 20 days of reading lessons in grades 3-5. It’s full of lessons and printable tools to glue into reader’s notebooks. Establish a meaningful relationship with books and clear expectations for independent reading right away!

This file is a zip file that includes three PDFS.

This resource includes:

The First 20 Days Guide

• A step-by-step guide to the first 20 days of reading instruction. Lessons include:
  • How to choose books
  • Learning the classroom library
  • Setting goals
  • Monitoring our comprehension
  • Responding to reading in notebooks
  • Marking our thinking with sticky notes
  • Sharing with a reading buddy and more!

• Pictures of anchor charts you can create with your students

Teacher Printables & more

• Library checklist
• Responding to reading sentence starters
• Sample reading responses (3)
• Cards for reading salad activity
• Mentor Book Lists: titles for reading and writing titles, and building community

Student Printable Handouts, etc.

• Reader’s notebook cover
• Meaningful book response sheet
• Reading survey
• Reading goals
• Fiction vs. nonfiction table
• Book Pass activity
• Books I’d like to read list
• Books I’ve read list

This resource is easy to use but it will help you build a classroom environment that will make independent reading purposeful and fun all year.

This resource is part of the Reader’s Workshop Bundle: everything you need to manage and teach reading in grades 3-5!

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used in one classroom. Additional classrooms must purchase additional licenses.