Description
These 1st grade April reading lessons give you four weeks of read aloud lessons and activities.
Rooted in Reading for 1st 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 1st 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
- Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller
- Wangari’s Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter
- Thunder Underground by Jane Yolen
- I Don’t Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Reading passages and comprehension assessments
- Comprehension printables and interactive notebook flap-ups
- Nonfiction readers: Life Cycle of a Butterfly, Professions That Save the Planet, Earthworms, and Fascinating Frogs
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, sentences, and picture and word match
- Directed drawings with writing pages: caterpillar, marine biologist, ant, and frog
- Crafts with writing pages: butterfly, tree, mushroom with earthworm, and frog
- Weekly word family and blend activities, including sliders, passages, and assessments
- 400 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: character actions, dialogue, and traits, central idea and key details, text evidence, analyzing poetry, poetic devices, persuasive text, and author’s purpose
- Phonics: -aw/-au and shr, -ew and thr, -oi/-oy and spl, and the -y ending and squ
- Grammar: rhyming words, combining sentences with and and but, alliteration, rhyme, and repetition, and contractions
Good to Know
The poetry week with Thunder Underground is set up differently. It replaces vocabulary and grammar with a focus on alliteration, repetition, and rhyme.
Made for 1st Grade
- Lined writing pages
- Many options for drawing or writing in response to the text
- Phonics included every week
- Directed drawings with simplified steps and a starting page
- Crafts that are easy to cut and assemble
- Vocabulary cards with pictures
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for April
- 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
Learn more about Rooted in Reading.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: The Bundle.
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