A Place Called Kindergarten: GET WILD ABOUT BOOKS

Get Wild About Books! Introduce book genres to your Kindergarten students in a meaningful way. Introducing your students to different genres will increase their interest in reading and encourage them to read a variety of books. These reading workshop lessons are perfect for Kindergarten and First Grade. K.RL.5

K.RL.5 Recognize common types of text.

Inspired by the book Wild About Books by Judy Sierra

we went Wild About Books to study the different types of text that are located in our classroom. My classroom is full of books, but until my students become familiar with them and make connections to them, they are just bins and bins of books. At the beginning of the week I decorate my room with book jackets that my mom sewed together for me and animal print balloons. My students each had an animal print visor and glasses to wear every day of this unit from Oriental Trading.

Every day we went "Wild About Books" and talked about a different genre and where they were located in our classroom. Everyone picked a favorite book from each genre and recorded it in their Wild About Books Book.

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At the end of the week we read Hooray for Books! by Brian Won

We reviewed the different genres we discussed during the week and where they could be found in our classroom. I used Scholastic Book Club points to get books from each genre to have a book raffle. Each student shared their favorite kind of book, choose a book from the raffle and put their name in it. I got more books from each genre than I needed so that everyone could pick a book from their favorite. After our raffle, everyone snuggled up and read their book and shared it with their friends. My students organize the leftover books into our classroom library.