Bots, Books, and Beyond: Coding Adventures for Young Learners

Coding becomes more meaningful when it tells a story. This engaging session shows how children's literature can serve as a powerful launchpad for coding experiences that build computational thinking, creativity and problem-solving. Explore hands-on lessons that pair favorite storybooks with robotics, coding platforms and unplugged activities to engage learners of all ages and ability levels. Learn strategies for integrating coding into literacy instruction, differentiating for diverse learners and helping students see coding as a way to communicate, solve problems and tell stories. Whether you have a classroom full of robots or no technology at all, you will leave with ready-to-use lesson ideas, story-to-coding planning frameworks, robotics challenges and unplugged activities you can implement immediately to make coding accessible, purposeful and fun.