Rooted in Reading Christmas for 3rd Grade | December Reading Comprehension

Save TIME and ENERGY this December with these 3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans and hands-on reading activities, including Christmas-themed! Enhance the Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar in your classroom as students learn about drawing conclusions, making inferences, elements of a folktale, holiday traditions, and much more!

3rd grade teachers, are you looking for something to transform your ELA block? Rooted in Reading is a set of lesson plans and activities 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!

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Books needed for this unit:

Seven Spools of Thread by Angela Medearis

The Legend of Old Befana by Tomie dePaola

The Carpenter's Gift by David Rubel

The Year of The Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston

Comprehension Focuses:

Drawing Conclusions

Making Inferences

Writing a Summary

Elements of a Folktale

Holiday Facts and Traditions

Story Elements

Grammar Focuses:

Subject Verb Agreement

Irregular Verbs

Transition Words

Adverbs of Manner

Nonfiction Readers (displayable version and printer friendly version for students)

Kwanzaa

The Appalachian Mountains

A European Christmas

New York City During the Holidays

But wait, there’s more!

4 Fiction Reading Passages

4 Nonfiction Reading Passages

4 Comprehension Assessments that ask questions about the weekly read aloud and comprehension focus

Interactive Notebook Entries:

Seven Principles of Kwanzaa

Appalachian Mountain Facts

Sequencing Old Befana

Summarizing a Story

Summarizing Flapbook

Folktale Graphic Organizer

Drawing Conclusions Graphic Organizer

Illustrations and Inferring

Doodle Notes

Anchor Charts- The templates for the charts are included:

I Can Draw Conclusions with student response sheets

A European Christmas with fact cards

Inference Chart

Elements of a Folktale Chart

Facts About Kwanzaa

Vocabulary:

Vocabulary Cards and Definitions

Student Vocabulary Sheet

Find the Missing Word (Words in Sentences Scoot)

Synonym Match

Vocabulary Task Flapbooks

Vocabulary Match

Vocabulary Assessment

Art and Writing:

Suitcase Booklet for Traveling Through Europe

Truck With Christmas Tree for a New York Christmas

Kwanzaa Weaving Activity

Drawing Conclusions Tree

Daily Deep Dive: Each week we take a sentence from the book to do a daily deep dive! Students have daily activities to complete in their spiral. These activities will focus on the meaning and structure of the sentence.

Grammar:

IRREGULAR VERBS:

Verb Match

Regular and Irregular Verb Flapbook

Verb Sort

Three is Key Verb Game

Verb Assessment

ADVERBS OF MANNER:

Adverb or Adjective Scoot

Adverb Flapbook

Adverb Cards

Adverb Interactive Notebooks

Adverb Hunt

Adverb Assessment

SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT:

Read and Decide Scoot

Which Verb Match

Creating Sentences

Sort it Out

Assessment

TRANSITION WORDS:

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree Printable and Activity

How to Draw a Flower Printable

How to Have a Picnic (pocket chart materials and student sheet)

How to Wash Your Car (pocket chart materials and student sheet)

How To Give a Dog a Bath (pocket chart materials and student sheet)

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