Description
These 2nd grade May 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 bees, dinosaurs, elephants, and wild cats, and this month also includes four reader’s theaters.
Books Used This Month
- Cat Problems by Jory John
- Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton
- Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers
- Elephant in the Dark by Mina Javaherbin
What’s Included
- Daily lesson plans for 4 weeks
- 4 reader’s theaters
- Book question cards
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Nonfiction readers with assessments: Wild Cat Problems, Beekeeping Basics, Dinosaurs: Meat Eaters vs. Plant Eaters, and Elephants
- Comprehension focus posters, printables, and assessments
- 8 anchor charts
- Vocabulary picture cards, writing prompts, printables, and assessments
- Directed drawings: cat, bee, pterodactyl, and elephant
- Crafts: snow leopard, beehive, triceratops, and elephant
- Grammar and phonics lesson plans, focus posters, printables, and assessments
- Daily mentor sentences
- Student-led bee research week with KWL, research links, true or false and fact and opinion sorts, and a research booklet
- 548 pages
Skills Practiced
- Comprehension: point of view, author’s purpose, main idea and supporting details, and perspective
- Grammar: shades of meaning with synonyms and verbs, simple and compound sentences, and adverbs that describe how
- Phonics: final stable syllables, VCCCV words, and a review of vowel teams, bossy r, diphthongs, and multisyllabic words
Ways to Use
- As your complete reading curriculum for May
- 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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