Rooted in Reading 3rd Grade August Lessons | Comprehension | Grammar | Vocab

Supercharge your students' reading with a complete set of lesson plans and activities that make learning comprehension skills easy! Our curriculum uses the hands-on approach to teach students about summarizing, character traits and feelings, making connections, and 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! Want to know more? Check out below!

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Books needed for this unit:

Picture Day Perfection by Deborah Diesen

Pinduli by Janell Cannon

Crow Boy by Taro Yashima

Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy

Comprehension Focuses:

Summarizing

Character Traits

Character Feelings

Making Connections

Grammar Focuses:

Intro to Nouns and Verbs

Intro to Adjectives

Synonyms

Antonyms

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

Thomas Edison and the Invention of the Light-bulb

African Animals and Their Adaptations

Japan: Land of the Rising Sun

American as Applie Pie?

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:

Describing Characters

Describing Chibi

Summarizing Details

Describing Characters: Pinduli

African Animals: Adaptations

Making Connections

Anchor Charts- The templates for the charts are included:

How Does the Character Feel

Somebody Wanted But So

Let’s Describe Characters

Let’s Make Deep Connections

Vocabulary:

Vocabulary Cards and Definitions

Student Vocabulary Sheet

Vocabulary Match It!

Vocabulary Printables

Vocabulary Activities and Games: Tasty Terms (pizza craft), Words at the Watering Hole Game, Valuable Vocabulary, Roll to Win, Japanese House

Vocabulary Interactive Notebook Entries

Art and Writing: Hyena Directed Drawing, Japanese Flag, Samurai Directed Drawing, Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun Craft Booklet, Camera Craft

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:

NOUNS and VERBS:

Noun and Verbs Class Sort

Noun and Verbs Digital Posters

Noun and Verbs Matching Games

Edison’s Nouns and Verbs-Finding parts of speech in paragraphs

Picture Perfect: Looking at an image and brainstorming nouns and verbs

Nouns and Verbs Printable

Noun and Verbs Layered Flipbook

ADJECTIVES:

Adjective Digital Poster

Adjective Class Sort

Hunting for Adjectives (looking for adjectives in sentences from the story)

Amusing Animals: Creating an animal and describing

Find the Adjectives

Describing Animals

SYNONYMS:

Synonym Match

Synonym Search- Students create synonym pairs

Synonym BINGO

Synonym Switch

Synonym Memory Game

Synonym Digital Poster

ANTONYMS:

Antonym Digital Poster

Antonym Alert: Students Create Antonym Pairs

Antonym Tic Tac Toe

Antonym Memory Game

Antonym Printables

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.

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