This lesson is a creative way to get students engaged with reading by sharing books with one another.  They will be practicing their comprehension skills by delivering a summary, retell, and identifying main ideas/events in the books.Students can present these book commercials in front of the class to begin with.  Then throughout the year progress to them making iMovies about their book commericals.  Creativity and new resources help all different styles of learners. Photo Credit:"Book Dog FairTales Child Kid Umberlla." Photograph.Pixabay. June 7, 2015. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/book-dog-fairy-tales-child-kid-794978/. June 14, 2022.

"How Wood Tick Became Flat" is a tale from the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation. This tale helps students become familiar with cultural storytelling and its importance in Native cultures. Students will have a brief introduction to the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and thier location in Utah. This lesson include an experience eliciting discussion and literacy activities. Students will create a diamante poem using a Native American tale. 

This lesson is an Apple technology integrated lesson designed to help students practice reading for accuracy, fluency and expression. Students will practice an perform a readers theater or choral reading of their choice and record it with sound effects for a finished product.