Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade- January Reading Lessons and Comprehension

Transform your ELA block with quality picture books and hands-on reading activities designed to enhance reading comprehension! This complete unit features Winter activities and lesson plans for fact and opinion, identifying lesson/moral of a story, finding key facts, characteristics of a biography, and more!

Calling all 2nd Grade Teachers who are ready to TRANSFORM their ELA block and improve reading comprehension!  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, reading activities, crafts, and printables that focus on a read-aloud story each week. 

Here's how it works. 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!

For more information, research, and teacher testimonies on Rooted in Reading click HERE.

Books needed for this teaching resource:

Snow Day by Lester Laminack

Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod by Robert J. Blake

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst

Any Martin Luther King Jr. books to help in a biographical study

What is included in this teaching resource? 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:

• Fact and Opinion
• Identifying the Lesson/Moral of a Story
• Comparing Stories
• Finding Key Facts
• Characteristics of a Biography
• Text Evidence
• Summary

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

• Facts and Opinions Printable
• Facts and Opinions about Alaska
• Fact and Opinion Sort
• Tips for Finding the Lesson
• Text Evidence Flap-Ups
• Lesson of the Story Printable
• Answering Questions about the Text Printable
• Summary Framework Printable
• Summary Flap-Book
• Lesson of the Story Printable
• Comparing Stories Flap-Book
• Key Events and Irrelevant Info Sort
• Key Facts Printable
• Dr. King's Words
• Dr. King's Timeline

● Nonfiction Readers

• The Great State of Alaska
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
• The Great Escape Artist: Harry Houdini
• Marvelous Meteorologists

●  Anchor Charts

• You Decide: Fact or Opinion
• Let's Describe Akiak
• Lesson Learned
• Let's Describe Alexander
• Let's Write a Snow Day Summary
• Let's Look at Meteorologists
• Let's Describe Dr. MLK Jr
• I Have a Dream with Quotes

● Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Word and Definition Cards
• Vocabulary Four Square
• Vocabulary Writing Prompts
• Vocabulary Match it Up
• Vocabulary Quiz
• Vocabulary Printables

● Directed Drawings (with writing pages)

• Sled Dog: Akiak
• Alexander (main character)
• Winter Friend
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

● Crafts (with writing pages)

• Sled Dog Race Trophy
• Piggy Bank
• If I Lived in a Snow Globe
• I Have a Dream Earth Craft
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Booklet

●  Grammar:  Possessives

• Possessive Palooza Sort
• My Polar Possessives Booklet
• Power Possessives Layered Flap-Book
• Possessives Flap-Book
• Make Me Possessive Assessment

●Grammar: Pronouns

• Am I a Pronoun Sort
• Pronoun Flap-Book
• Packin' Up Pronouns Booklet
• Pronoun Pocket book
• Replace the Words

● Grammar: Plural Nouns

• Plural Noun Snowman Booklet
• Singular or Plural Noun Sort
• Make Me Plural Sort
• Wrapped up in wintry nouns layered flapbook
• Plural Noun Pocket Book

● Grammar: Writing Dates

• Dates About Me
• MLK's Dynamic Dates Booklet
• MLK's Dates Flap-Book
• MLK's Date Timeline
• Am I Written Correctly Sort

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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