Top 20 Geometry Lessons Books and Mentor Texts

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With the right tools and strategies, your geometry lessons can be engaging and effective! From understanding shape attributes to partitioning shapes – read alouds and mentor texts are great tools for developing a deep understanding of the basics of geometry. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of my favorite read alouds and mentor texts for introducing geometry topics in the classroom.

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Introduction to Geometry

This first set of books covers geometry as an overall topic. These are excellent tools for introducing shapes and lines.

All About Shapes

Now, these geometry mentor texts are all about shapes! First up, are 3 simple books with shapes. These are great for younger students. They are simply and have clear illustrations and labels for each of the shapes!

Next, we have 6 mentor texts about specific shapes in geometry! These books are fun and functional! Students will really enjoy hearing the silly stories and they will help them remember specific shapes and their attributes!

Thirdly, here are three books that feel interactive. These authors tell stories about triangles, quadrangles, and other polygons while encouraging readers to play along. Students will love learning about polygons with these three silly stories!

Additionally, here are my favorite books for older students learning about shapes. These mentor texts will help you tie in 2-D and 3-D shapes, as well as real-world connections that reinforce concepts!

All About Parts

Learning about fractions and parts- geometry books

Coincidentally, the study of shapes includes some fractions. While fraction skills and concepts have their own domain in math standards, geometry standards require students to understand partitioning and parts of shapes. Students will learn about equal and non-equal parts, half, thirds, and fourths. So, I have included 5 books that focus on parts of shapes. These mentor texts are both geometry and fractions, so, keep them around for your fractions unit!

All About Lines

Read Aloud geometry lessons books for lines and symmetry

Finally, we have lines and angles. These three books are at three different levels. First, Lines is a simple and straightforward book that shows how lines make up whole things: ” lines make up a whole: a whole square, house, town, city, and universe!” Then, a perfect introduction to lines and angles with Lines, Segments, Rays, and Angles. Concepts such as perpendicular and parallel lines, right and obtuse angles, and much more are explained in this book. And, for your older students, we have an adventure story about a young knight who is sent off to rescue a king. He faces the ultimate challenge in a mysterious castle with a maze of many angles.

After learning about lines, students can begin to look for lines of symmetry. I have included two beautifully illustrated books about the concept of symmetry and finding it all around us!