Description
These 2nd grade December 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
- Except Antarctica! by Todd Sturgell
- Silver Packages by Cynthia Rylant
- Little Red Sleigh by Erin Guendelsberger
- Digging for Words by Angela Burke Kunkel
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: Amazing Antarctica, The History of Trains, Draft Animals, and Professions That We Need
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: penguin, train, open book, and reindeer
- Crafts: turtle, present, clipboard checklist, and little red sleigh
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- 548 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: author’s purpose, point of view and perspective, asking and answering questions, and identifying the lesson of a story
- Grammar: contractions, exclamatory sentences, prepositions, and friendly letter writing
- Phonics: long i (ie, igh, y), long o (oa, oe, ow), oo, and long u (ue, ui, ew) vowel patterns
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
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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