The Read-Aloud Year

Fifty Short Classroom Stories With Discussion Prompts for Ages 7 to 11

von Ellis Thornbury

192 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

It's 2:50 on a Thursday. The math books are put away, twenty-four kids are sprawled on the rug, and you have ten minutes left. This is the story they'll still be talking about at pickup.

The Read-Aloud Year follows one class, Room 12, through an entire school year. That's fifty short stories, five for every month from September to June. First-day nerves arrive in September. Stage fright shows up with the fall assembly. Friendship trouble lands in February, right when it tends to in real classrooms. And the goodbyes come in June.

Each story takes about five minutes to read aloud and stands on its own. Read one a week, and your listeners will watch the same kids grow braver, kinder, and more honest over the year. Or grab the story you need on the day you need it.

Inside, you'll find:

- 50 original stories about the small, real moments kids live through, like a forgotten lunch, a cracked globe, and being picked last- A "Talk About It" box after every story, with four prompts that move from easy recall to real-life thinking- A Word Worth Knowing with every story, one kid-friendly vocabulary word tied to its big idea- A Stories by Theme index, so you can find a story about honesty, patience, or joining in within seconds- A cast page introducing the kids of Room 12, their teacher, and the helpers who make the school run- Stories about courage, telling the truth, including others, handling disappointment, saying sorry, and standing up for a classmate

>The stories never lecture. They let children practice being brave, patient, and kind while they're safely somebody else, and then they give everyone something to talk about.

Scroll up and bring Room 12 into your classroom or living room today.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174778825
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform