January Read Aloud Lessons & Comprehension Activities for Kindergarten

January Read Aloud Lessons & Comprehension Activities for Kindergarten

Make January read-aloud planning easier with 20 Kindergarten read-aloud lessons featuring discussion prompts, comprehension activities, anchor charts, writing responses and nonfiction inquiry connections.

Designed for an Ontario Kindergarten classroom, these flexible lessons help students practise important early comprehension skills such as:

• Recalling key details
• Recalling information from nonfiction texts
• Retelling and sequencing story events
• Activating prior knowledge
• Making predictions and inferences
• Making text-to-self connections
• Developing vocabulary
• Using illustrations to support comprehension
• Asking questions about nonfiction topics

The lessons do not need to be taught in order. Choose the books and activities that work best for your class, divide longer lessons across multiple days or use selected activities during whole-group instruction, centres, guided writing or small groups.

Please note that the picture books are not included and must be purchased or borrowed separately.

 

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⭐ 2026 Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum Note

The curriculum expectation codes currently included in this resource are from the 2016 Ontario Kindergarten Program and have not yet been updated to reflect the 2026 curriculum.

However, the core reading-comprehension skills addressed throughout the resource continue to be relevant under the 2026 curriculum. Teachers can continue using the lessons and activities with confidence while the curriculum-reference pages await a future update.

Because this resource was created for an Ontario classroom, it uses Canadian spelling.

 

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What’s Included

• 20 days of read-aloud lessons
• Discussion questions and comprehension prompts
• Curriculum-reference charts
• Anchor chart samples
• Printable anchor chart cards and pieces
• Differentiated follow-up writing printables
• Fiction and nonfiction learning opportunities
• Inquiry question prompts
• Seasonal and science connections

Writing pages are provided in several formats, including options with and without clip art, tracing supports and Kinder Read Alouds branding, so you can select the version that best supports your students.

 

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January Themes and Books

Week 1: New Year’s

• The Night Before New Year’s by Natasha Wing
• Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller

Week 2: Snow

• Snow Is Falling by Franklyn M. Branley
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Week 3: Snowmen

• Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
• Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright

Week 4: Penguins

• The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins
• Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester

 

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Flexible for Your Kindergarten Program

Twenty lessons are included so you have plenty of options—you do not need to complete every lesson. Pick and choose based on your available books, classroom needs, student interests and other areas of learning.

The optional writing activities can be used for guided writing, independent practice, literacy centres or supply-teacher plans. Responses can also remain entirely oral.

The combination of fiction and nonfiction texts provides opportunities to explore New Year’s traditions and resolutions, winter weather, snow activities, snowmen and penguins.

 

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Want to Try a Week for Free?

Download a free read-aloud week to see how the lessons and activities are structured:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/KINDER-READ-ALOUDS-FREE-SAMPLE-4266697

 

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