Rooted in Reading 3rd Grade: October {Read Aloud Lessons & Activities}

Description

3rd grade teachers, are you looking for something to transform your ELA block? Rooted in Reading is a set of lesson plans and activities 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! Want to know more? Check out below!

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Books needed for this unit:
**Books can be taught in any order**
Substitute Creacher by Chris Gall
Picnic at Mudsock Meadow by Patricia Polacco
Creature Features by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

Comprehension Focuses:
Point of View
Foreshadowing
Flashbacks
Nonfiction: Facts and Details
Finding Facts
Asking Questinos
Climax
Comparing and Contrasting

Grammar Focuses:
Articles
Quotations and Dialogue
Conjunctions
Plural Nouns (Regular and Irregular)

Nonfiction Readers (displayable version and printer friendly version for students)
Halloween Traditions
Sugar, Sugar!
Watching Wild Creatures
The Swamp

But wait, there’s more!
4 Fiction Reading Passages
4 Nonfiction Reading Passages
4 Comprehension Assessments that ask questions about the weekly read aloud and comprehension focus

Interactive Notebook Entries:
Finding Facts
Analyzing Flashbacks
Looking for Clues
Comparing and Contrasting
Flashbacks
Point of Views
Asking Questions in the BME

Anchor Charts- The templates for the charts are included:
Facts About Sugar
Swamp Facts
Point of View
Asking Questions in the BME
Creature Features: Facts and Details
Foreshadowing

Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Cards and Definitions
Student Vocabulary Sheet
Matching Vocabulary Words with Synonyms
Vocabulary Game Boards
What’s The Word Scoot with words/definitions
Analyzing Words
Vocabulary Assessment

Art and Writing: Giraffe Directed Drawing, Panda Craft, Cattail Craft, Ant Direct Drawing, Monster Craft
Daily Deep Dive: Each week we take a sentence from the book to do a daily deep dive! Students have daily activities to complete in their spiral. These activities will focus on the meaning and structure of the sentence.

Grammar:
CONJUNCTIONS:
Flapbook
Anchor Chart
Coordinating Conjunctions Printable
Putting Sentences Together Activity
Assessment
And/But Sentence Sort

Plural Nouns:
Anchor Chart with Sort
I Have, Who Has
Five in a Row
Plural Noun Game
Plural Noun Assessment

ARTICLES:
Articles Anchor Chart and Sort
Make a match
Articles Assessment
Articles Flapbook
Articles Ant Hat
Articles Sort

QUOTATIONS AND DIALOGUE:
Quotations Anchor Chart
Quotation Rule Posters
Spin and Create Dialogue
Adding Quotation Marks to Sentences
Quotations Assessment
Animal Dialogue