Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade September Comprehension Grammar Vocabulary (1st ed)

Are you ready for your students to master their Fall reading comprehension skills? This month-long unit features lesson plans and creative activities, games, charts, and more for making inferences, character descriptions, making connections, analyzing settings, and sensory language!

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!

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

Books needed for September:

The books you will need for this unit are:

The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer

Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

We recommend teaching the books in this order:

1. When I Was Young in the Mountains

2. The Salamander Room

3. Wilfrid Gordan McDonald Partridge

4. A Visitor for Bear

What is included in the SEPTEMBER 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:

Analyzing the Setting

Sensory Language/Visualizing

Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions

Describing Characters

Making Connections

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

Responding to the Text Printable

Making Inferences Flap-Ups

Inference Puzzles

Five Senses Printable

Two Little Kittens Printable

Visualizing the Text Printable

Making Connections Flap-Book

The Importance of Settings Flap-Book

My Schema Printable

Making Inferences Flap-Ups

Mem Fox Printable

Appalachian Mountains Printable

Facts about Salamanders

Facts about Bears

● Nonfiction Readers

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

Mem Fox

Salamanders

The Appalachian Mountains

●  Anchor Charts

All About The Bear

All About The Mouse

Facts About Brown Bears

Let's Visualize

I Can Describe Salamanders

Name the Setting

The Appalachian Mountains

Let's Make Connections

Let's Describe Wilfrid

The Author Mem Fox

● Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word and Definition Cards

Vocabulary Journal Prompts

Vocabulary Type it Out

Vocabulary Match

Vocabulary Picture It

Vocabulary Assessments

● Directed Drawings (with writing pages)

Brown Bear

Wilfrid Gordon

Salamander Tree

Mountain Landscape

● Crafts (with writing pages)

Mouse in a Cup

Grandparents

Salamander

Log House

●  Grammar:  Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Flapbook Sort

Describing the Characters

Parts of Speech Review

Spin and Name a Word

Beary Important Words

●Grammar: Adjectives

All About Me

Adjectives Sort

Describing Salamanders

Take Flight with Adjectives Printable

Where are the Adjectives?

● Grammar: Nouns

Searching for Nouns

Make a Match

Nouns Sort

Choose A Noun Flap-Book

Naming the Nouns

● Grammar: Verbs

Verb Charades

Sorting Verbs

Verb Glasses

Verb Game Board

Viewing the Verbs

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

To find our other Rooted in Reading units click below:

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