Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade March | Spring & Women in History Reading Comprehension Lessons (2nd Edition)

Description

These 2nd grade March reading lessons give you four weeks of read aloud lesson plans and hands-on activities built around four mentor texts. Your students will learn about folktales, frogs, peacocks, and women in history while they deepen comprehension, build vocabulary, and practice grammar and phonics.

Books Used This Month

• The Green Frogs by Yumi Heo
• The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller
• Birds of a Feather by Sita Singh
• Pocket Full of Colors by Amy Guglielmo and Jacqueline Tourville

What’s Included

• Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
• Book question cards
• Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
• Nonfiction readers with assessments: Life Cycle of a Frog, World Class Women of Track, Pretty Peacocks, and Animation in Film
• Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
• 8 anchor charts
• Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
• Directed drawings: frog, Wilma Rudolph, peacock, and art inspired by Mary Blair
• Crafts: lily pad, track runner, peacock feather, and vintage video camera
• Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
• Daily mentor sentences
• 548 pages

Skills Practiced

• Comprehension: analyzing folktales from different cultures, central message, comparing and contrasting fairy tales, and key details in nonfiction
• Grammar: articles, pronouns, collective nouns, and abbreviations
• Phonics: the ending -ing, the endings -er and -est, three-letter blends and digraphs, and closed and VCe multisyllabic words

Ways to Use

• As your complete reading curriculum for March
• 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.