Big Books for the Classroom
Do you use big books in your classroom? These books are great because they are larger than your typical picture book which means your students can see the pages better. I love using these for read alouds and shared reading.
Today I’m sharing my favorite big books for the classrom. Comment below with your favorite one!
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw has a mystery shape that shifts from page to page help capture children’s attention. There is word repetition in this book, so children will likely want to read along with you!
My Five Senses by Aliki is great for introducing students to the five senses!
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon is a heartwarming story about a baby bat who goes on adventure to find her mother!
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh is great for introducing colors and color mixing to students.
The Napping House by Audrey Wood is a hilarious tale about lots of people and animals that want to sleep in the same bed!
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle is a classic book! Kids love the repeition and will want to read along with you!
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister is a great story with an important lesson about sharing!
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina will captivate your students and make them laugh!
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle is another great rhyming and repetion book.
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes is a sweet story about a mouse who learns an important lesson when she goes off to school!
Check out more of wonderful big books over at Lakeshore Learning. They have a great selection!
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I just love love the story of rainbow fish!! Would love to have it
I would LOVE The Napping House! 🙂 Thank you.
I read all these books when I taught school and created matching activities! Yet I’ve only read one now that I have twin toddlers. Thanks for this reminder. I’m excited to plan and share the joy with them now.
Love all of these books! My choice would be it looked like spilt milk
Rainbow fish would be such a cute big book for beginning of the year, or any time really! My class has been struggling with kindness.
My toddler loves Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear? ❤️🐻❄️
Chrysanthemum is one of the books I read the first week every year. I’d love for my students to be able to see the pictures better in big book form!
I would love to win Chrysanthemum because it would be new for my class and myself and it could be a learning lesson for all of them as well.
I’d like “It Looks Like Spilt Milk”.
Any of these books would be a wonderful contribution. My daughter and I made our own Brown Bear, Brown Bear book by doing our own handprints of the animals.