Description
These 3rd grade December 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
- Seven Spools of Thread by Angela Shelf Medearis
- The Legend of Old Befana by Tomie dePaola
- The Carpenter’s Gift by David Rubel
- The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- 4 fiction and 4 nonfiction reading passages
- 4 comprehension assessments on the weekly read aloud and focus skill
- Nonfiction readers in display and printer-friendly versions: Kwanzaa, The Appalachian Mountains, A European Christmas, and New York City During the Holidays
- Interactive notebook entries, including the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa, sequencing Old Befana, summarizing, and folktale and drawing conclusions organizers
- Anchor chart templates with student response sheets
- Vocabulary cards, student sheet, scoot, synonym match, flapbooks, and assessment
- Art and writing: Europe suitcase booklet, Christmas tree truck, Kwanzaa weaving, and drawing conclusions tree
- Daily Deep Dive with a weekly mentor sentence
- 300 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: drawing conclusions, making inferences, writing a summary, elements of a folktale, holiday facts and traditions, and story elements
- Grammar: subject-verb agreement, irregular verbs, transition words, and adverbs of manner
- Vocabulary: words in context and synonyms
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
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Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading 3rd Grade: The Bundle.
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