Rooted in Reading 1st Grade Reading Comprehension for August & Back to School

Engage your 1st graders in reading comprehension with a full curriculum designed to provide hands-on learning, with hand-picked read-alouds and lesson plans! This Back to School inspired reading unit features activities, charts, posters, and more for parts of a book, predictions, characters, and setting!

Rooted in Reading for 1st 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 on 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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The description below AND the PREVIEW are VERY detailed. We have tried to provide as much information as possible! Please check out the description and preview if you have any questions about the unit!

Books needed for August (In order of how we suggest teaching the books):

School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex

Sylvie by Jennifer Sattler

The Bad Seed by Jory John

Nerdy Birdy by Aaron Reynolds

1st Grade Rooted in Reading Units:

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: Overview

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: August

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: September

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: October

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: November

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: December

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: January

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: February

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: March

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: April

Rooted in Reading 1st Grade: May

Ⓠ What is included in the AUGUST unit?

Ⓐ: Look below!

● Daily Lesson Plans for 4 Weeks

● Book Question Cards

● Reading Passages

● Comprehension Assessments

● Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentences

Comprehension Focuses:

Parts of a Book and Taking Care of Books

Making Predictions

Characters

Setting

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

Labeling a Book

Book Jobs

How to Treat Books

Making Predictions

Using Images to Make Predictions

I Can Make Predictions Flap-Ups

Identifying Characters

Sorting Characters

Character Changes

Identifying the Setting

Matching Settings

Setting Flap Ups

One Room Schoolhouse Graphic Organizer

Flamingo Graphic Organizer

Sunflower Graphic Organizer

Eagle Flap-Book

● Nonfiction Readers

One Room Schoolhouses

Flashy Flamingoes

Sunflowers: The Brightest Flowers in the Garden

Fly High Eagles

● Anchor Charts

Labeling Parts of a Book

One Room Schoolhouses

Making Predictions

Flamingo Facts

Characters

Sunflowers: Can, Have, Are

Setting

Extraordinary Eagles

● Vocabulary

4-5 Vocabulary Picture Cards for each book

4-5 Vocabulary Writing Prompts

Vocabulary Sentences

Vocabulary Picture/Word Match

● Directed Drawings (with writing pages)

Student Self Portrait

Flamingo

The Bad Seed

Bald Eagle

● Crafts (with writing pages)

Schoolhouses

Sylvie the Flamingo

Sunflower

Nerdy Birdy

● Phonics: -Consonant Sounds

-Letter Digital Poster

-Passage: Alphabet Soup

-Letter Cards for Making Words

-Making Words Printable

-Sentence Scramble Printable

-Beginning Letter Practice

● Phonics: Consonant Sounds Week 2

-Beginning Letter Digital Poster

-Safari Sounds

-Sentence Scramble

-Color Pets Reading Passage

-Beginning Letter Practice

● Phonics: -at family

-at Word Family Digital Poster

-at Word Family Slider

-at Making Words

-at Reading Passage: That Fat Cat

-at Word and Picture Cards

-at Sentence Scramble

-at Word Practice

-at Assessment

● Phonics: -et family

-et Word Family Digital Poster

-et Word Family Slider

-et Making Words

-et Reading Passage: My Pet, Jet

-et Word and Picture Cards

-et Sentence Scramble

-et Word Practice

-et Assessment

● Grammar: Letters

Letter Writing Pages

Letters in Our Names Graph

Letter Sort: lower and uppercase

My Consonant Booklet

Sorting Letters: vowels and consonants

My Vowel Booklet

Beginning Sounds

● Grammar: Color Words

Color Words Digital Poster

What Is Your Favorite Color Graph

Writing Color Words

A Booklet of Many Colors

Color Word Sort

I Have Who Has Color Words

What Color? Printable

Color BINGO

● Grammar: Capitals at the Beginning of a Sentence

Capitals Digital Poster

Creating Sentences Cards

I Can Write Sentences Work Mat

Sentence Picture Puzzles

Sentence Puzzlers

Sentence Sort

Please Fix Me!

● Grammar: Punctuation- Periods

Periods Digital Poster

Creating Sentences Cards

I Can Write Sentences Work Mat

Sentence Picture Puzzles

Sentence Puzzlers

Sentence Sort

Please Fix Me!

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!  Please note that as units are created we may switch things up a bit! The TEKS that the units are aligned to are the TEKS that were adopted in 2017 and will be put into place in 2019. These are NOT aligned with the old TEKS.

Here is our COMPLETE Book List and Year Overview

Ⓠ What is included in the first grade units

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

⇢Daily Lesson Plans for Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Phonics

⇢Book Question Cards for Classroom Discussion

⇢Comprehension Focus Digital Posters

⇢Comprehension Printables and/or Interactive Notebook Templates

⇢Comprehension Assessment for the Weekly Read Aloud

⇢Reading Passage with Questions

⇢Anchor Chart Templates

⇢Nonfiction Reader

⇢Nonfiction Activities

⇢Vocabulary Picture Cards with Word, Picture, Definition

⇢Vocabulary Writing Prompts or Activities

⇢Vocabulary Printables/Assessments

⇢Craft with Writing Pages

⇢Directed Drawing with Writing Pages

⇢Phonics Focus Digital Posters

⇢Phonics Printables/Activities

⇢Phonics Reading Passage

⇢Grammar Focus Digital Posters

⇢Grammar Printables/Activities

⇢Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentences

Ⓠ How are these units different from your 2nd and 3rd grade units?

Ⓐ:  We have followed the same format for 1st grade, but we have made it developmentally appropriate for a first grade classroom.  We do not choose read alouds that are on a first grade reading level because the teacher is reading the story to the class, and guiding their discussions, BUT the activities that correlate with the read aloud are first-grade appropriate.  We believe that books read aloud should vary in level so that ALL students benefit from the instruction. Here are some minor differences in the first grade units:

➧Lined Writing Pages

➧Many options for drawing or writing when responding to the text

➧Phonics Included

➧Directed Drawings have simplified steps and a starting page

➧Crafts are easy to cut and assemble

➧Vocabulary Cards have pictures

➧1st Grade appropriate activities, assessments, passages, and more