Description
These 2nd grade December read alouds come with four weeks of lessons and activities.
Rooted in Reading for 2nd grade gives you everything you need to build a love of reading in your classroom. Each week centers on a read aloud. You read the book throughout the week and model how to think deeply, ask questions, and monitor comprehension, while students work through activities made for 2nd grade. All lessons and activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards and TEKS, and you can use the unit as your full curriculum or pick and choose what fits your students.
Books Used This Month
- Who’s That Knocking on Christmas Eve? by Jan Brett
- Night Tree by Eve Bunting
- How to Catch Santa by Jean Reagan
- The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Comprehension assessments
- Daily Deep Dive with mentor sentences
- Comprehension printables and interactive notebook flap-ups
- Nonfiction readers: A Couple Winter Celebrations, Polar Bears, Evergreen Trees, and Las Posadas
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary cards, four square, spin and cover, flap-ups, quiz, and printables
- Directed drawings with writing pages: Santa, poinsettia, forest landscape, and polar bear
- Crafts with writing pages: Santa, candle, Christmas trees, polar bear, and Las Posadas suitcase
- 240 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: asking questions, comparing and contrasting, main idea, text evidence, cause and effect, making connections, and story elements
- Grammar and writing: transition words and letter writing, prepositions, contractions, and verb tenses
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for December
- As a supplement to the reading program you already use
- Pick and choose the lessons and printables that fit your students, and use some in stations, morning work, or homework
This is the 1st Edition of Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade. The newer 2nd Edition uses a different set of books. Learn more about Rooted in Reading.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade Bundle (1st Edition).
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