Description
These 2nd grade August reading lessons give you four weeks of back to school read aloud lesson plans and hands-on activities built around four mentor texts. Your students will deepen comprehension, build vocabulary, and practice grammar and phonics from the very first weeks of school.
Books Used This Month
- My School Stinks! by Becky Scharnhorst
- Rulers of the Playground by Joseph Kuefler
- Home by Carson Ellis
- The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: Zoos, The Science of Playgrounds, Homes, and My Perfect Pet
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: Stuart, Lennox and Jonah, a palace, and Barnabus
- Crafts: zoo, student on a swing, apartment building, and fishbowl
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- 550 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: story elements, describing characters, problem and solution, retelling, and making connections
- Grammar: days of the week and months of the year, capitals and complete sentences, common nouns, and proper nouns
- Phonics: short vowel review and words with final e
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for August
- 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
All lessons and activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards and TEKS. Learn more about Rooted in Reading.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in 2nd Grade Rooted in Reading Bundle (2nd Edition).
Plan your year with the free Rooted in Reading 2nd Edition Book List and Year Overview.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.