Elementary Library Lesson Bundle | Back to School

This back to school library storytime walks you though the students' first library lesson of the year! Designed with specials rotation librarians in mind, this activity includes a presentation, scavenger hunt activity, recommended reads, and lesson plan.

This Digital Bulletin Board continues my First Week of School freebie! My Digital Bulletin Boards mix library and school announcements with fun facts for back to school. Includes editable daily schedules, fun facts, vocabulary words, a staff spotlight, and a featured genre.

This Back to School Digital Bulletin Board is for the third week of school! Show this digital library bulletin board during check out time, as classes enter the library, before and after school, and at lunch. Use it to scroll library and school announcements, fun facts, vocabulary, and more!

This Back to School Digital Bulletin Board is for the fourth week of school! Show this digital library bulletin board during check out time, as classes enter the library, before and after school, and at lunch. Use it to scroll library and school announcements, fun facts, vocabulary, and more!

This Friendship Storytime is perfect for back to school or anytime you want to reinforce social skills. The lesson is designed to be flexible and easy to differentiate between Grades K-3. It's designed for libraries, but it can also be used for classroom storytime discussions.

Grab your students' attention with this football themed Digital Bulletin Board! It's a great way to communicate school announcements, student birthdays, and library information. Set the slides to scroll on a timed loop to share announcements, trivia, vocabulary, fun facts, and more!

Students returning too many damaged library books? Back to School is a great time to talk to students about preventing caring for library books and preventing library book damage. This low-prep, easy-to-use library lesson guides your K-3 Library Book Care Storytime from start to finish.

This Digital Storytime is all about the Letter M! This 30-slide PPT and Google™ Slides library lesson works for face to face or distance learning. Slides include: M animals, foods, months, colors, and songs. Storytime read-aloud not included. Editable.

Digital Bulletin Boards are fun, themed tools to share library and school announcements. This one is themed for Grandparents Day, which is in September. Set the slides to scroll on a timed loop to share announcements, trivia, vocabulary, fun facts, and more!

This Grandparents Day Storytime is perfect for Grades K-3 in September! Includes two parts -- a whole-class library lesson and a self-directed activity. Created for libraries, but it works great for classroom storytime, too. Includes detailed lesson plan with AASL, CC, and TEKS standards.

This Autumn Digital Bulletin Board is perfect for back to school in the elementary library! It's a scrolling slideshow of fall facts, trivia questions, vocabulary words, safety tips, and would-you-rathers. Includes two scavenger hunt activities, recommended reads, and take-home extension activities.

This Parts of a Book Storytime teaches core library skills for lower elementary students! The presentation slides walk you through a storytime discussion of book parts, including title, author, illustrator, spine, call number, title page, copyright date, and publisher.

This Autumn Library Storytime is perfect for back to school and fall activities. Includes a librarian-led discussion of fall objects, plus additional scrolling slides with fun facts, autumn idioms, vocabulary, would you rathers, and more! Includes differentiated scavenger hunt, recommended reads, and editable lesson plan.

Celebrate Mexico Independence Day and Cinco de Mayo with this scrolling Mexico Digital Bulletin Board! It's full of fun facts, a mystery animal, Mexico landmarks, Spanish vocabulary words, Would You Rathers, and more! All text is editable in PPT and Google Slides.

This Mexico Library Storytime is perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month, Mexico Independence Day, Cinco de Mayo, or anytime you want to highlight Mexico. Includes Spanish words, an easy Spanish song, Mexico landmarks, sign language, and so much more!

What's the difference between fiction and nonfiction? It's not always easy for to tell! This digital library lesson walks you through a storytime about the differences between fiction and nonfiction picture books. Includes PPT and Google Slides.

This Nonfiction Digital Bulletin Boards mixes library and school announcements with fun facts about nonfiction books. Use as a scrolling slideshow in the library or hallways. Includes editable daily schedules, fun facts, vocabulary words, a staff spotlight, Would You Rathers, and more!

This Digital Bulletin Board is all about news media, fake news, and verifying sources. It includes parts of a newspaper, tips for spotting fake news, would you rathers, daily and weekly agenda slides, and more! Printable list of 21 news-themed Recommended Reads is also included.

This Media Literacy Library Storytime is a great overview of multiple media literacy terms and concepts for K-3. Introduces fact and opinion, parts of a newspaper, local and world news, fake news, AI images in the news, and what to do when the news is scary.

This Election Day Library Storytime includes everything you need to teach K-3 students about the USA election process. It was created for elementary library lessons, but it's also perfect for classroom use. Includes election terms like polling place, voting, and campaign.

This Election Day Digital Bulletin Board helps explain election processes in the USA! The scrolling slideshow focuses on presidential elections (including the presidential election 2024), but it can be used in any US election cycle.

***PLEASE NOTE that this product is specific to US elections only.***

This Halloween Storytime walks you through an elementary library lesson on skeletons, bats, spiders, and other Halloween symbols. Includes presentation scavenger hunt and printable list of recommended reads.

Wow your upper-elementary students with this fun, informative Halloween Digital Bulletin Board! Designed for the elementary library, this scrolling slideshow is full of facts about arachnids, bats, scorpions, the human skeleton, and more! Editable in PPT and Google Slides.

Need a Halloween alternative for library lessons? Try this Spiders Storytime! This lesson is perfect for librarians looking for an October or autumn storytime with a science twist. Informative, fun, and editable!

This library storytime lesson is perfect for Friday the 13th! It introduces students to superstitions from the US and around the world. Includes fun facts, trivia, vocabulary, and more! Editable in PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Need a fun, informative library lesson for Veterans Day? The first part is for whole group discussions and gives basic information about Veterans Day. The second part is 45 post-lesson scrolling PPT or Google Slides. Editable in PPT and Google.

This Thanksgiving Library Lesson focuses on Thanksgiving traditions rather than its history. Students will learn about Thanksgiving traditions in the US and a few other countries that celebrate Thanksgiving. Includes trivia questions, would-you-rathers, fun facts, idioms, and more!

NOTE: This Thanksgiving Library Lesson is very USA-centric. I mention other countries in a few slides, but the majority of this presentation is about Thanksgiving traditions in the USA. The focus is on American traditions rather than Thanksgiving history.

This December Holidays Library Lesson covers December holidays around the world! Features Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Pancha Ganapati, Boxing Day, and La Befana. Includes whole-group library lesson, scrolling slideshow, Recommended Reads, Scavenger Hunt activity, and lesson plan template.

Got the winter blahs? This Winter Library Lesson includes everything you need to celebrate snow and ice! The first part is a discussion of animal adaptations for cold weather. The second part includes winter themed fun facts, trivia, would-you-rathers, and more! Editable.

This elementary Book Awards Library Lesson introduces multiple book awards to students. It gives details about five book awards: Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpre, and Sibert, plus mentions the Odyssey, Stonewall, and Asian Pacific American Award. Includes winning titles for 2026.

This Dr. Martin Luther King library lesson includes a guided discussion of equality and fairness, biographical information about Dr. King, trivia questions, interesting facts, and more! Also includes lesson plan tied to CCSS, TEKS, and AASL standards. Perfect for Martin Luther King's Birthday or for Black History Month!

This Lunar New Year Library Lesson includes a 55-slide presentation, scavenger hunt activity, and recommended reads list. Updated for 2026, the Year of the Horse. Focuses mainly on Chinese New Year, with lots of real photos and colorful clipart.

This Ruby Bridges Library Lesson is perfect for Black History Month or anytime you want to teach students about school desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement. Editable in Google Slides and PowerPoint.

Let's talk about hearts! This Valentine's Day Library Lesson introduces elementary students to human and animal hearts and tips for keeping their hearts healthy. Includes library skills, fun facts, trivia questions, and booktalks. Editable in Google Slides and PowerPoint.

This Elementary Library Lesson is themed for Women's History Month or International Women's Day. It mentions or features biographical information about 28 women throughout history. Includes trivia, fun facts, and would-you-rathers. Editable in Google Slides and PowerPoint.

Need a fun library lesson for spring? Insects are always a hit! This two-part presentation guides you through a lesson about insects. The first part includes 10 insect idioms. Part II contains additional insect-themed slides to scroll during checkout. Editable in PPT and Google Slides.

It's Spring! Shout it from the bookshelves with this Library Storytime for Spring! This two-part library lesson uses the five senses to describe common signs of spring. Includes two differentiated scavenger hunts, editable lesson plan, Recommended Reads, and more!

This Science of Spring Digital Bulletin Board is perfect for spring in the elementary library! Scroll it on a loop while students check out or during library downtimes. Includes two differentiated Scavenger Hunts, Recommended Reads, fun facts, trivia, and more!

This haiku library lesson is so much fun for National Poetry Month! Includes a two-part lesson that was designed for elementary librarians on the specials rotation. Students learn the rules for writing haiku, practice counting syllables, and have an opportunity to write their own haiku.

April is National Poetry Month--are you ready? This Library Storytime Lesson is all about nursery rhymes! Includes multiple nursery rhymes, a scavenger hunt, recommended reads, and pre-filled lesson plan. All text is editable in PowerPoint, PDF, and Google Slides.

This Ramadan Library Lesson helps elementary students understand Islam, Ramadan, and Eid al-Fitr a bit better. Students will learn about Ramadan activities, foods, and fasting. They will also learn etiquette with regard to eating (or not eating) with Muslim friends who are fasting.

***PLEASE NOTE: This Ramadan Library Lesson was written by a non-Muslim librarian, but I have done all I can to ensure the authenticity of the information. It is thoroughly-researched and includes source information in notes section of each slide. I also sent it to a sensitivity reader (who is Muslim) to check for accuracy, sensitivity, and thoroughness.

This Earth Day Library Lesson teaches students about different classifications of endangered animals, why they are endangered, and what we can do to help. Only one slide is for Earth Day specifically, so it can be used year-round.

Take your students on a trip to the Asian continent with this elementary library lesson for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. Students will find Asia on a map, meet four notable Asian Americans, and see famous monuments and foods of Asia.

Need an end-of-year library lesson for Grades 2-5? This editable Summer Reading Library Lesson is a low-prep way to keep students engaged during the chaotic final weeks of school while reinforcing summer literacy and independent reading.