Description
These 2nd grade February 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, all connected to Valentine’s Day, Presidents’ Day, and Black History Month.
Books Used This Month
- Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood
- Slugs in Love by Susan Pearson
- John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith
- TickTock Banneker’s Clock by Shana Keller
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: All About Planets, Scrumptious Strawberries, The Start of a Country, and Clocks Throughout Time
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: Cinderella in a spaceship, slugs in love, Paul Revere, and Benjamin Banneker
- Crafts: Saturn, strawberry, quill and ink, and clock
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- 548 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: comparing and contrasting fairy tales, fractured fairy tales, rhyme and rhythm in text and poetry, asking and answering questions, connecting events in history, and sequencing events
- Grammar: compound words, shades of meaning and synonyms, commas in dates and in a series, and possessive nouns
- Phonics: ow and ou, oi and oy, inflectional endings -s, -es, and -ies, and the sounds of -ed
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
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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