20+ Books to Enhance Your Spring Lesson Plans
Grow your students’ love for learning with these popular spring titles.
As you're organizing your spring lesson plans this year, stock up on books that inspire students to ask more questions, support learning materials, or can be read aloud when a spring-themed lesson finishes with extra time to spare.
With captivating themes like plant growth and development, baby animals, and cyclical weather patterns, these books have engaging text and vivid imagery that can be used throughout the year for any lessons about nature.
Whether you are introducing STEM concepts with A Seed Is the Start or engaging in a fun-filled Spring search-and-find with I Spy™ an Egg in a Nest, there is something for everyone. If you're refreshing your shelves this season, be sure to also check out these spring-cleaning tips for your classroom library.
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A silly read-aloud story with funny rhymes and hilarious illustrations.
Is it time yet? This STEM-focused romp about pupation will tickle little ones who know how hard it is to wait.
While children splash in puddles above, down below an earthworm delights in a rainy day. The lively comparison will delight preschoolers.
That zany old lady is back, and with a serious case of spring fever! This time she's swallowing items to make the most of the season...with a beautiful garden!
This time, the hungry old lady swallows a chick, some straw, an egg, some candy, a basket, and a bow! And just as she's hopping and skipping along, who should she meet but the Easter Bunny!
Patience pays off for Gus in this sweet and simple story.
In this lyrical picture book, one spunky little girl discovers just who likes rain—and who doesn't—as she explores the rainy-day habits of the world around her.
In this easy-to-read chapter book, Poppleton the pig charms young readers with his quirky adventures, whimsical ideas, and engaging community of friends! In three wonderful springtime stories, Poppleton tries his hand at spring cleaning, riding a bike, and staying up all night in his new tent.
Vivid photographs capture changes as plants, animals, and people transition from season to season.
After Lola reads a book of garden poems, she wants to plant some flowers. She gets books from the library and chooses her plants. Then Lola and her mommy buy the seeds, make the garden, and mark the rows. Now it's time to wait...
How do you make a flower grow?
Explore the hidden, changing world of a garden, from the leaves, sprouts, and vegetables to the earthworms, snakes, sand animals that make a garden their home.
Learn all about the plant cycle, from how seeds grow, the fascinating ways they travel, and what it takes for a seed to become a plant.
New easy-to-read text by Marzollo is paired with Wick's amazing photographs from previous I Spy books to create a fun-filled Spring search-and-find.
It's wonderful springtime, and there are so many flowers, leaves, and seeds outside. Siblings Feather, Flap, and Spike want to explore on a sunny day. But will Spike"s sneezes make him the odd dino out? ACHOO!
Bring nature into your classroom with this glorious, picture-book celebration of flowers, growth, and possibility - a fiction offering that makes an innovative and yet seamless connection to seed-planting and science activities.
Funny and upbeat cartoons pepper the story with earth facts, zany jokes, and wacky side characters (and make sure to check out Eric's ecology riddles at the back!). This cheerful tale about the changing environment is an entertaining take on a serious subject, which will engage, inform, and inspire young readers.