Description
MADE ESPECIALLY FOR:
My Library Storytime Lessons are the lessons I would have wanted when I was a new, overwhelmed, and exhausted school librarian.
- new PreK-Grade 1 elementary librarians
- PreK-Grade 1 librarians on Specials rotation
- secondary teachers who are now elementary librarians
- busy parents and/or library grad students who just don’t have time to create detailed storytime lessons
FAST FACTS
- Recommended for: Grades PK-1
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.
THIS PURPLE COLOR LIBRARY STORYTIME LESSON INCLUDES:
- 40-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
- List of purple color-themed Recommended Reads (1 page PDF)
- Scavenger Hunt Activity (1 page PDF)
- Prep, set up, detailed lesson plan (7 pages, PDF)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages, PDF and PPT)
- Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up PPT slide timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF)
THE PURPLE COLOR LIBRARY STORYTIME INCLUDES:
- Oral review of ABC order using three purple items; explains ABC order if this is a new concept for students
- English folk song (“Lavender’s Blue”)
- Links to five short purple color-themed videos for kids
- “Purple” and “octopus” in American Sign Language (includes demo links)
- “Purple” in four languages (French, Spanish, Danish, Kurdish)
- identifying purple objects around the school
- Who is wearing purple today?
- 5 shades of purple
- red + blue = purple
- purple first names
- words that rhyme (and do not rhyme) with plum
- counting / clapping syllables in “purple” and “egglant”
- library books with purple covers – you add your own
- purple flowers and animals (special emphasis on octopuses)
- Word of the Week: “amethyst”
- purple idiom: “born to the purple” (born to a royal family)
- One “This or That” for the color purple
- purple flowers
- All slides are illustrated with real photos and clipart for PK-1.
SCAVENGER HUNT COLORING PAGE
- Includes blackline clipart from Part II of the presentation (the scrolling slideshow).
- Students can color the images from the scrolling slideshow.
- All images are labeled with the names of each object.
RECOMMENDED READS
- Includes picture books and nonfiction for PreK-Grade 1.
- All titles are purple-themed!
- total of 18 titles
- includes small images from the presentation
- titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive professional reviews, and currency.
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