Story Time Every Day

​At my current school, students read two novels per year, due to the time constraint of only having 2.5 hours per day to teach academics. For the first novel, the students listened to the audio version of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry while answering focus questions in their reading notebook. We took breaks to discuss what they book meant to them. They absolutely loved it! Every day all they wanted to do was listen to this book being read aloud and to discuss how the characters responded to the difficult situation having to be brave in the face of The Holocaust and WWII.
When I saw this post on Facebook, on Create-abilities Teacher Community, which shared a Story Time YouTube channel, Storytime with Mrs. Cole, that shares books read aloud for children to watch, it made me think that a daily story time is also appropriate for 5th grade readers. 
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