Description
These 2nd grade February read alouds come with four weeks of lessons and activities.
Rooted in Reading for 2nd 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 2nd 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
- Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
- Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
- Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
- Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Comprehension assessments
- Daily Deep Dive with mentor sentences
- Comprehension printables and interactive notebook flap-ups, including Lincoln’s words and Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass
- Nonfiction readers: Presidents’ Day, Historical Heroes, The History of Hershey, and Jacqueline Woodson
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary cards, four square, writing prompts, match and order, quiz, and printables
- Directed drawings with writing pages: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington Carver, a book with labeled parts, and Some-Bunny Loves You, plus a cherry blossom tree art project
- Crafts with writing pages: Lincoln’s hat, Henry with a quote, heart emoji booklet, and Mr. Hatch with character traits
- 240 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: main purpose, analyzing characters, point of view, mood, analyzing quotes, analyzing the text, and how characters respond
- Grammar: capitalization, subject-verb agreement, abbreviations, and conjunctions
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for February
- 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
This is the 1st Edition of Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade. The newer 2nd Edition uses a different set of books. Learn more about Rooted in Reading.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade Bundle (1st Edition).
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