Description
These 2nd grade October reading lessons give you four weeks of 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 each week.
Books Used This Month
- The Poisoned Apple by Anne Lambelet
- The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
- Slug and Cockroach by Elise Gravel
- How to Make Friends with a Ghost by Rebecca Green
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: Fairy Tales, Villains or Heroes, Insect Imposters, and Halloween Symbols
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: witch, poisoned apple, fly, spider, ghost, and cockroach
- Crafts: fairy tale book, villain poster, slug, and trick-or-treat bucket
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- 548 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: elements of fairy tales and fractured fairy tales, rhyme and rhythm, comparing and contrasting, and using illustrations to gain meaning
- Grammar: present, future, and past tense verbs, adjectives, and time order transition words
- Phonics: blends sk, sw, st, tw, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, tr, pr, sc, sm, sn, and sp
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for October
- 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.
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