Rooted in Reading 1st Grade September Reading Comprehension w/ Fall Activities

Welcome September reading with a month of lesson plans and fun, Fall and animal-themed, reading activities for 1st grade! Your students will learn essential reading skills like retelling a story, problem-solving, asking and answering questions, and character description while having a blast!

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

How to Make Apple Pie and Change the World by Marjorie Priceman

Honey Honey Lion by Jan Brett

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Real Cowboys by Katie Hoefler

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 SEPTEMBER unit? Look below!

● Daily Lesson Plans for 4 Weeks

● Book Question Cards

● Reading Passages

● Comprehension Assessments

● Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentences

● Comprehension Focuses:

How Settings Can Change

Retelling a Story

Problem and Solution

Describing Characters

Asking and Answering Questions

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

Labeling a Book

Matching Settings

How Settings Change

Settings Printable

Apple Facts Printable

Surprise Ending Printable

Retelling Flapbook

BME Printable

African Animals Printable

Character Flapbook

Describing a Character Printable

Describing Mrs. Mallard

Mallard Ducks Flap-book

Horses Flapbook

Asking Questions Flapbook

Asking Questions Interactive Notebook

Response to Video Printable

● Nonfiction Readers

Apples!

African Animals

Mallard Ducks

Horses

● Anchor Charts

Settings Can Change

All About Apples

We Can Retell the Story BME

Amazing African Animals

We Can Describe Characters

Mallard Duck Facts

Let’s Ask Questions

All About Horses

4-5 Vocabulary Picture Cards for each book

● 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)

Apple

Lion

Mallard Duck

Cow

● Crafts (with writing pages)

Parachute

Badger

Duckling Booklet

Horse

● Phonics Focuses

-it word family and bl blend

-ot word family and cl blend

-ut word family and sl blend

-an word family and pl blend

● Phonics Activities for each week

Word Family Digital Poster

Word Family Slider

Word Family Picture and Word Cards

Word Family Sentence Scramble

Word Family Writing Practice

Word Family Passage

Word Family Assessment

● Blends Activities for each week

Blend Power Points

Blend Digital Poster

Blend Booklet with Student pages to complete

● Grammar: Nouns

Noun Anchor Chart

Noun Work-Mat

Noun Flapbook with Sort

A Basket of Nouns

Roll, Cover, Write

Noun Test

● Grammar: Nouns in Sentences

Noun Sort

Noun Sentence Puzzles

Singular Nouns in Sentences Hunt

Sentence Flapbook Sort

Singular Noun Test

● Grammar: Verbs

Verb Anchor Chart

Waddling Words Graphic Organizer

Act it Out!

Verbs and Nouns Flapbook

Roll, Cover, Write

Verb Test

● Grammar: Asking Sentences and Question Marks

We Can Ask Questions Anchor Chart

Question Mark with Question Words

Question Mark and Period Game

Sentence Puzzles

Asking and Telling Sentence Pocket Book

Punctuation Pick It

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

Ⓠ 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