Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade Fall, October Read Aloud Comprehension & Activities

Engage your 1st-grade readers in Fall reading comprehension with October activities and lesson plans for reading, grammar, and vocabulary! Including a reader's theatre! Students will learn about making connections, sequence of events, problem and solution, analyzing nonfiction, and more reading skills!

Calling all 2nd Grade Teachers who are ready to TRANSFORM their ELA block!  Rooted in Reading for 2nd Grade gives you everything you need to facilitate a love of reading in your classroom.  We’ve got lesson plans, activities, crafts, and printables that focus around a read-aloud story each week.  The teacher READS the book throughout the week and models how to think deeply, ask questions, monitor comprehension, and so much more.  Each week we focus on different comprehension skills and strategies that will take your little learners on a reading journey like never before.  All lesson plans and activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards and TEKS.  This can be used as a stand-alone curriculum OR as a supplemental curriculum.  You can do ALL of what we include or pick and choose the activities that work best for you and your students! Want to know more? Check out below!

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Books needed for October:

The books you will need for this unit are:

I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll

Crankenstein by Samantha Berger

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Spiders by Gail Gibbons

What is included in the OCTOBER unit? Look below!

● Daily Lesson Plans for 4 Weeks

● Book Question Cards

● Fiction Reading Passages

● Nonfiction Reading Passages

● Comprehension Assessments

● Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentences

● Comprehension Focuses:

Making Connections

Reader’s Theatre

Sequence of Events

Analyzing Nonfiction

Locating Facts

Comparing and Contrasting

Problem and Solution

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

What I Know About Spiders

Spider Facts

Web Detectives

How I Feel About Spiders

Comparing Spiders to Ants

Dear Squishy

I Need My Monster Reader’s Theatre

Strong Verbs Flap-Ups

Creepy Words

Halloween Safety Tips

Making Connections Flap-ups

How to Make Crankenstein Smile

Sequencing Crankenstein

Problem and Solution Crankenstein

Problem and Solution in Stellaluna

Sequencing Stellaluna

Connecting with Stellaluna

I’m a Bat Expert

Fact and Opinion Activity

● Nonfiction Readers

Ants are Everywhere

How to Become a Halloween Safety Expert

When I Get Mad

Bats

●  Anchor Charts

Compare Spiders and Ants

Spiders Schema

Label a Spider

Describe Ethan

Describe the Monsters

Halloween Safety Tips

Describe Crankenstein

When We Get Mad Strategies

Stellaluna BME

We Know Bat Facts

● Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word and Definition Cards

Vocabulary Journal Prompts

Vivacious Vocabulary Flap-Ups

What’s The Definition Match

Vocabulary Dice

Vocabulary Assessments

● Directed Drawings (with writing pages)

Realistic Spider

Spider

Kid in Bed

Crankenstein

Bat

● Crafts (with writing pages)

Spider

Monster

Frankenstein (with poem to analyze)

Bat

●  Grammar:  Types of Sentences

Types of Sentences Pocket Chart Sort

Types of Sentences Pocket Book

Types of Sentences Flapbook

Spin a Sentence

●Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns

Monster Proper Noun Sentences

Eye Spy Proper Nouns

Common and Proper Noun Monster Booklet

Monster Noun Pocket Book

● Grammar: Crankenstein

Shades of Meaning Paint Chip Cards

Shades of Meaning Printable

Shades of Meaning Color by Code

Quotation Marks in Sentences

Let’s Quote It Printable

Said is Dead Booklet

● Grammar: Strong Verbs

Verb Anchor Chart

Stay Strong, Stellaluna Printable

Bat Verbs

Stellaluna’s Vivid Verbs Sort

Highlight the Verbs

Find the Errors

Disclaimer About Rooted in Reading Books: We try our best to ensure that the books we select for our Rooted in Reading program will be available to you; however, we cannot guarantee any book's availability at any given time.

We encourage you to check multiple places for the books including but not limited to: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Scholastic, Thrift Books, BookOutlet.com, eBay, Abe Books, Half Price Books, Better World Books, and you can make a project on Donor's Choose or check them out from your public library.

More FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Ⓠ There is SO much included, how do I fit it all in?

Ⓐ:  Please do NOT feel like you have to do everything we put into the units.  We try to include everything that a teacher might want, but we realize it is A LOT!  We suggest combing through the units, looking at the expectations of your school/district/state, and deciding which activities would be best for your students.  We do NOT recommend printing class sets of everything, hoping to get to it all. Choose the things that you think YOUR students need, that will be most beneficial, and start there!  Several components can be used during stations, for morning work, or even as homework. Others you may choose to just set aside for another time or not use at all! That’s okay! We want this to work for you AND your students!

Ⓠ Do you have a year overview and planning guide?

Ⓐ:  Yes!  We sure do!  You can find the list of books for the year, the skills we are going to hit, and the standards (Common Core and TEKS) we will cover below!

2nd Grade Overview

Ⓠ What is included in the second grade units

Ⓐ:  Each book unit (so 4 a month)  include:  

⇢Daily Lesson Plans for Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar

⇢Book Question Cards for Classroom Discussion

⇢Comprehension Focus Digital Posters

⇢Comprehension Printables and/or Interactive Notebook Templates

⇢Comprehension Assessment for the Weekly Read Aloud with Answer Key

⇢Fiction Passage with Questions

⇢Nonfiction Passage with Questions

⇢Anchor Chart Templates

⇢Nonfiction Reader

⇢Nonfiction Activities

⇢Vocabulary Cards and Definitions

⇢Vocabulary Activities

⇢Vocabulary Printables/Assessments

⇢Craft with Writing Pages

⇢Directed Drawing with Writing Pages

⇢Grammar Focus Digital Posters

⇢Grammar Printables/Activities

⇢Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentence

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