Description
These 3rd grade April reading lessons give you four weeks of read aloud lessons and activities.
Rooted in Reading for 3rd 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 3rd 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
- The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins
- What Really Happened to Humpty? by Jeanie Franz Ransom
- The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
- Book of Animal Poetry edited by J. Patrick Lewis
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- 3 fiction and 3 nonfiction reading passages
- 3 comprehension assessments on the weekly read aloud and focus skill
- Nonfiction readers in display and printer-friendly versions: Amazing Animals, The World’s Rainforests, A Walk Down Memory Lane, and The Trimates
- Analyzing poetry activities
- Anchor chart templates
- Vocabulary cards, student sheet, graphic organizer, three in a row, read the definition, notebook entry, and assessment
- Art and writing: sloth, jaguar, and detective directed drawings, frilled lizard craft, and cause and effect shovel booklet
- Daily Deep Dive with a weekly mentor sentence
- 350 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: elements of a mystery, central message, persuasive text, the structure of poetry, referring to parts of a poem, and cause and effect, pictures, and main idea in nonfiction
- Grammar: idioms, sensory language, poetic devices (alliteration, personification, imagery, similes, and metaphors), and complex sentences
Good to Know
The poetry week is set up differently. It replaces vocabulary with a focus on comprehending, analyzing, and responding to poetry.
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 3rd Grade: The Bundle.
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