Description
These 2nd grade January 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, with winter and Chinese New Year connections every week.
Books Used This Month
- If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams
- Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper
- Mornings with Monet by Barb Rosenstock
- The Chinese New Year Dragon Nian by Virginia Loh-Hagan
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: Polar Bears, Marvelous Monet, Chinese New Year, and Did You Know? Snow Edition
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: polar bear, dragon, snow hat, and Claude Monet
- Crafts: polar bear, gong, mitten, and paintbrush
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- 550 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: connecting scientific ideas, cause and effect, descriptive language, comparing two texts on the same topic, and information gained from illustrations and digital text
- Grammar: antonyms and synonyms, onomatopoeia, root words with suffixes, and irregular verbs
- Phonics: compound words, r-controlled vowels (ar, or, ir, er, ur), and au and aw
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for January
- 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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