Rooted in Reading Kindergarten May: Read Aloud Lessons and Activities

Description

Also included in:
Rooted in Reading Kindergarten: The Bundle

Calling all Kindergarten Teachers who are ready to TRANSFORM their ELA block! Rooted in Reading for Kindergarten gives you everything you need to facilitate a love of reading in your classroom.  We’ve got lesson plans, activities, crafts, and printables that focus around a read-aloud story each week.  The teacher READS the book throughout the week and models how to think deeply, ask questions, monitor comprehension, and so much more.  Each week we focus on different comprehension skills and strategies that will take your little learners on a reading journey like never before.  All lesson plans and activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards and TEKS.  This can be used as a stand alone curriculum OR as a supplemental curriculum.  You can do ALL of what we include or pick and choose the activities that work best for you and your students!  

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Note: The description below AND the PREVIEW are VERY detailed.  We have tried to provide as much information as possible!  Please check out the description and preview if you have any questions about the unit!

Books needed for May:
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
Land Shark by Beth Ferry

KINDERGARTEN Rooted in Reading Units:
Rooted in Reading Kinder August:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder September:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder October:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder November:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder December:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder January: Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder February: Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder March:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder April:  Now Available
Rooted in Reading Kinder May:  Now Available

Ⓠ What is included in the MAY unit? 
Ⓐ: Look below!
● Daily Lesson Plans for 4 Weeks
● Book Question Cards
● Reading Sentences/Sentence Stems
● Comprehension Assessment
● Take Home Readers that Match the Nonfiction Reader Topic
● Comprehension Focuses:
Recognize the Steps in a Sequence
Main Topic and Key Details
Making Connections
Information from Illustrations
Identifying How a Character Changes

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:
How To Printable
Steps in How To Printable
Act It Out Flap-Ups
Act It Out Cards
Topic and Main Idea Printable
Key Facts Flap-Ups
Seagulls Passage and Printable
Text To Self Connections Printable
Making Connections Printable
Illustrations Printable
Character Action Printable
Character Change Printable
What Cause the Change Printable

● Nonfiction Readers 
These come in a printable and projectable version.  There is a NF reader that the teacher READS with the students.  There is also a Take-Home reader that the students read with on-level content.
Fresh and Clean
Remarkable Reptiles
Modes of Transportation
Whose Fin Is This? Shark Reader

● Anchor Charts
The Anchor Charts have all pieces included needed to make the anchor chart as well as cards for students to respond with.
How To Wash a Woolly Mammoth How To Steps Chart
Squeaky Clean Animals
Joan Procter Topic/Main Idea Anchor Chart
Really Remarkable Reptiles Anchor Chart
Let’s Make Text to Self Connections Chart
Modes of Transportation Anchor Chart
Characters Can Change Chart
Types of Sharks Chart

● Vocabulary
4 Vocabulary Picture Cards with Definitions for each book
4 Vocabulary Writing Prompts
Vocabulary Anchor Chart with picture cards
Vocabulary Picture/Word Match

● Directed Drawings (with writing pages)
The directed drawings have step by step picture instructions for the teacher to guide the students through.
Woolly Mammoth
Joan Procter
Train
Shark with Character

● Crafts (with writing pages)
The crafts include a printable version that can be colored AND a cut/glue option.
Bathtub
Komodo Dragon
Helmet
Hammerhead Shark

● Foundational Skills:  Vowel Teams
Vowel Team Posters
Vowel Team Pocket Chart Materials
More Vowel Team Posters
Color Trace Write Printables
Vowel Teams Printables
Sorting Vowel Teams
Trace and Find
Vowel Team Booklets

● Grammar:  Synonyms
Synonym Focus Poster
Synonym Picture and Word Cards
Synonym Printable
Name the Synonym Printable
Synonyms Match
Color the Synonyms
Are We Synonyms

● Grammar:  Shades of Meaning
Shades of Meaning Focus Poster
Shades of Meaning Cards
Shades of Meaning Printable
Ordering Words Printable
Order Up 
Label to Order
Is it Correct? Assessment

● Grammar: Writing and Reading Sentences
Checking Our Sentences Focus Poster
Can You? Printable
Sentences Printable
Sentence Puzzle
What Will We Do? Printable
Making Sentences Printable
Sentences Assessment
Fix the Sentences

● Grammar: Writing and Reading Sentences
Checking Our Sentences Focus Poster
Sharks Sentences Printable
Spin and Write Printable
Read and Fill Printable
Read and Sketch
Sentences Assessment
Fix the Sentences

● Daily Deep Dive:  Mentor Sentence
Each week we take a sentence from the book or inspired by the book.  This sentence is the anchor for the sentence study.
This month the Daily Deep is different from the other months.  This month’s Daily Deep Dive is formatted similarly to our First Grade Rooted in Reading.  The students use the printable to dive deep into one mentor sentence each week.

More FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Ⓠ There is SO much included, how do I fit it all in?
Ⓐ:  Please do NOT feel like you have to do everything we put into the units.  We try to include everything that a teacher might want, but we realize it is A LOT!  We suggest combing through the units, looking at the expectations of your school/district/state, and deciding which activities would be best for your students.  We do NOT recommend printing class sets of everything, hoping to get to it all.  Choose the things that you think YOUR students need, that will be most beneficial, and start there!  Several components can be used during stations, for morning work, or even as homework.  Others you may choose to just set aside for another time or not use at all!  That’s okay!  We want this to work for you AND your students!

Ⓠ What is included in the Kinder units
Ⓐ:  Each book unit (so 4 a month) will include:  
⇢Daily Lesson Plans for Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and the Daily Deep Dive
⇢Book Question Cards for Classroom Discussion
⇢Comprehension Focus Digital Posters
⇢Comprehension Printables and/or Interactive Notebook Templates
⇢Comprehension Assessment for the Weekly Read Aloud
⇢Reading Passage with Questions
⇢Anchor Chart Templates
⇢Nonfiction Reader
⇢Nonfiction Take Home Reader
⇢Vocabulary Picture Cards with Word, Picture, Definition
⇢Vocabulary Writing Prompts
⇢Vocabulary Writing Prompts
⇢Vocabulary Printables/Assessments
⇢Craft with Writing Pages
⇢Directed Drawing with Writing Pages
⇢Foundational Skills Focus Digital Posters
⇢Foundational Skills Printables/Activities
⇢Grammar Focus Digital Posters
⇢Grammar Printables/Activities
⇢Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentences

Ⓠ How are these units different from your other grade level units?
Ⓐ:  We have followed the same format as our other grade levels, but we have made it developmentally appropriate for a Kindergarten classroom.  We do not choose read alouds that are on a Kindergarten reading level because the teacher is reading the story to the class, and guiding their discussions, BUT the activities that correlate with the read aloud are Kinder appropriate.  We believe that books read aloud should vary in level so that ALL students benefit from the instruction.  Here are some minor differences in the Kinder units:
➧Lined Writing Pages and Sentence Starters
➧Printables have very little cutting involved.  If there is cutting, it is very basic.
➧Many options for drawing or writing when responding to the text
➧Foundational Skills Included
➧Directed Drawings have simplified steps and a starting page
➧Crafts are easy to cut and assemble or they can simply be colored
➧Vocabulary Cards have pictures
➧Kinder appropriate activities, assessments, passages, and more

Please note: We provide resources/printables for foundational skills. However, we do not claim that this is a complete phonics program. Rooted in Reading was built to address the comprehension, vocabulary, and language standards. Many schools and districts have very specific plans for foundational skills/phonics. Our goal is to simply provide extra materials for teachers to use during their phonics instruction.