FREE Motivational Poem that's Strategy-Packed Staff-Development: I’ll Read Aloud

It's poetry month! This fun, motivational, and strategy-packed staff-development poem from Bee with Babsy B offers a practical and informative way to encourage reading aloud to students every day. This poem product, created for staff-development trainings or for your own motivation, includes: An original strategy-packed rhyming poem filled with powerful reading strategies, “I’ll Read Aloud” shares a host of strategies I’ve found to be effective for a win-win with students of all ages, abilities, and capabilities. For example, “I’ll Read Aloud” presents how read-aloud selections model reading for meaning while filling students’ “plates” with the two critical prerequisites for all learning––vocabulary and knowledge. The poem shares the WHY, HOW, WHAT, and WHEN of reading aloud to guide your read-alouds every day of the school year. With a bit of planning ahead, the poem tells us, reading aloud students’ favorites from their previous school year is a sure-fire way to help chase away those first-day jitters at the start of a new school year and offers a hearty welcome to a new student at any time during the year. “I’ll Read Aloud” suggests yet another win-win use for reading aloud students’ favorites––on those high-energy days for everyone just before any vacation period. The poem invites you to just say YES to reading aloud, and it supports the pride you feel in students’ attentive responses each time that you drop everything and read aloud. Thank you for downloading this product. I hope you and your colleagues find in this poem an inspiration to practice daily read-alouds to students. Enjoy! If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at:

tpt@babsyb.com