Description
These 2nd grade April 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 life cycles, gardening, and poetry while they deepen comprehension, build vocabulary, and practice grammar and phonics.
Books Used This Month
- A Beetle Is Shy by Dianna Hutts Aston
- 10 Beautiful Things by Molly Beth Griffin
- Harlem Grown by Tony Hillery
- Song of the Wild by Nicola Davies
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: Lovely Ladybugs, Science Is Beautiful, Raised Garden Beds, and Animal Groups
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: rainbow stag beetle, sunrise, plant, and orangutan
- Crafts: ladybug, windmill, carrot garden, and cheetah
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- 548 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: nonfiction text features, drawing conclusions and making inferences, author’s purpose and descriptive language, and analyzing poetry
- Grammar: prefixes, homophones and homographs, compound sentences, and grammar in poetry
- Phonics: multisyllabic words with bossy r, kind old words, silent letters, and multisyllabic words with open syllables
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for April
- 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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