Lesson Plans on Special Topics

Each month, we are pleased to present new lesson plans featuring titles from RFB&D's collection of accessible audiobooks that focus on special topics, themes, or events in the academic calendar. The following list highlights some themes and topics covered in our lesson plan repository, with a new topic featured each month.

January

• Anniversary of Ellis Island: Immigrants and immigration
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday: Civil Rights

February

• Black History Month
• President's Day: Lincoln and his Presidency, Elections and the Presidency

March

• Read Across America: Books by Dr. Seuss and other authors with March birthdays
• Women's History Month: Books about famous women of science, aviation, and more!
• Listening Awareness Month: Listening, sounds, and music and POWER listening and note-taking strategy
• National Mirth Month: Humor and Laughter
• March Madness: Capture your students' passion for basketball with lesson plans and audio books with a basketball theme.

April

• Earth Day: The environment, global warming, conservation, climates and habitats
• National Poetry Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Week

May

• Cinco de Mayo: Mexican history and culture
• Be Kind to Animals Week
• Memorial Day: Patriotism, democracy, and major events in U.S. history

June

• World Cup: Soccer, the World Cup, South Africa, and apartheid

Summer Reading

• Challenges
• Journeys
• Award Winning Literature
• Sports and Health

September

• Grandparents' Day: Grandparents
• Library Card Sign-up Month: Libraries, librarians, and books
• Banned Books Week: Frequently challenged books and authors

October

• National Diversity Month: Diverse cultures and perspectives and differing abilities
• Halloween

November

• Election Day: Elections and the Presidency
• Daniel Boone's Birthday: Pioneer and frontier life

December

• Music and Sounds
• Spititual Literacy Month

Other Special Topics

• Accelerated Reader Titles
• One Book Projects
• Emotions and Feelings
• Model Lesson Plans using CAST's UDL Editions
• Most Requested Titles
• POWER Listening Lesson Plans
• Folklore, Legends, and Magic
• Friendship
• Growing Up
• Nature