Rooted in Reading August Comprehension for Kindergarten for Back to School

Kick-off Kindergarten reading with everything you need to transform comprehension in your classroom! This book unit features author and illustrator activities, asking questions activities, and illustrations and parts of book resources. 4 full weeks of lesson plans—done for you!

Rooted in Reading for Kindergarten 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):

The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes

This is MY Book by Mark Pett

I Walk With Vanessa by Kerascoet 

The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade by Justin Roberts

KINDERGARTEN Rooted in Reading Units:

Rooted in Reading Kinder August:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder September:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder October:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder November:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder December:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder January: Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder February: Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder March:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder April:  Now Available

Rooted in Reading Kinder May:  Now Available

Ⓠ What is included in the AUGUST unit? 

Ⓐ: Look below!

● Daily Lesson Plans for 4 Weeks

● Book Question Cards

● Reading Sentences/Sentence Stems

● Comprehension Assessment

● Take Home Readers that Match the Nonfiction Reader Topic

● Comprehension Focuses:

Parts of a Book 

Roles of an Author and Illustrator

Analyzing Illustrations

Asking Questions While Reading

● Comprehension Printables:

Ways to Read Digital Chart

My Favorite Way to Read Printable

How We Read Digital Chart

Parts of a Book Printable

Book Care Digital Chart

Book Care Printable

Author Digital Chart

I am the Author printable

Illustrator Digital Chart

I am the Illustrator Printable

Teamwork Digital Chart

Teamwork Printable

Look at the Pictures Digital Chart

Let’s Look at the Pictures Printable

Look Closer Digital Chart

Character Emotions Digital Chart

Character Emotions Printable

Ask Questions Digital Chart

What is Going On Question Printable

Question Words Digital Chart

Question Word Who and Where Picture Sort

When to Ask Questions DIgital Chart

When to Ask Questions Printable

● Nonfiction Readers 

These come in a printable and projectable version.  There is a NF reader that the teacher READS with the students.  There is also a Take-Home reader that the students read with on-level content.

Our School Community

Giant Pandas

Transportation

Big Things and Small Things

● Anchor Charts

The Anchor Charts have all pieces included needed to make the anchor chart as well as cards for students to respond with.

Parts of a Book

Our School Community

Author and Illustrator

Those Precious Pandas

Let’s Look at the Pictures

All About Transportation

We CAn Ask Questions

Small vs Big

● Vocabulary

4 Vocabulary Picture Cards with Definitions for each book

4 Vocabulary Writing Prompts

Vocabulary Anchor Chart with picture cards

Vocabulary Picture/Word Match

● Directed Drawings (with writing pages)

The directed drawings have step by step picture instructions for the teacher to guide the students through.

Student Self Portrait

Panda

Car

Ant

● Crafts (with writing pages)

The crafts include a printable version that can be colored AND a cut/glue option.

School Bus

Pencil

Backpack

Kite

● Foundational Skills:  Letters of the Alphabet

For this month of Rooted in Reading, our phonics focus in Letters of the Alphabet.  This month of foundational skills will look a little different than others because everyone teaches letters in a different order and at a different pace.  So, rather than telling you an order or when to use the resources, we are just providing the things that you can use with your students. You will have letter posters, printables, and activities for each letter of the alphabet.  You can use them in any order and at any pace!

-Letters Digital Poster

-Alphabet Posters (two options for every letter)

-Alphabet Outline Printables with pictures to color (each letter)

-Alphabet Colored Outline Posters with images

-I Spy Letter Printables 

-Letter Practice Printables (for each letter)

● Grammar:  Nouns That Name a Person

We Can Name Nouns (People) Anchor Chart

Noun Picture and Word Cards

Printable:  Draw a Noun (person)

Printable:  Color the Nouns That Name a Person

Printable:  What Does Not Belong?

Printable:  Nouns That Name a Person Assessment

● Grammar:  Nouns That Name a Thing/Animal

We Can Name Nouns (Things and Animals) Anchor Chart

Noun Picture and Word Cards

Printable:  Draw a Noun (thing/animal)

Printable:  Color the Nouns That Name a Thing/Animal

Printable:  What Does Not Belong?

Printable:  Nouns That Name a Thing Assessment

● Grammar:  Nouns That Name a Place

We Can Name Nouns (Place) Anchor Chart

Noun Picture and Word Cards

Printable:  Draw a Noun (place)

Printable:  Color the Nouns That Name a Place

Printable:  What Does Not Belong?

Printable:  Nouns That Name a Place Assessment

● Grammar:  Nouns Review

Printable:  Draw a Person, Place, and Thing

We Can Find Nouns with Picture/Word Cards

Printable:  Color the Nouns By Code

Printable:  Noun Knowledge

Printable:  Noun Assessment (identify if the noun is a person, place, or thing) 

● Daily Deep Dive:  Mentor Sentence

Each week we take a sentence from the book or inspired by the book.  This sentence is the anchor for the sentence study.

Pocket Chart Sentence Cards to Build the Sentence Together

Replacing Words Cards

Printable:  Write the Sentence and Draw a Picture

Printable:  Cut and Glue the Sentence.  Write the Sentence.

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!

Ⓠ What is included in the Kinder units

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

⇢Daily Lesson Plans for Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and the Daily Deep Dive

⇢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 Take Home Reader

⇢Vocabulary Picture Cards with Word, Picture, Definition

⇢Vocabulary Writing Prompts

⇢Vocabulary Writing Prompts

⇢Vocabulary Printables/Assessments

⇢Craft with Writing Pages

⇢Directed Drawing with Writing Pages

⇢Foundational Skills Focus Digital Posters

⇢Foundational Skills Printables/Activities

⇢Grammar Focus Digital Posters

⇢Grammar Printables/Activities

⇢Daily Deep Dive with Mentor Sentences

Ⓠ How are these units different from your other grade level units?

Ⓐ:  We have followed the same format as our other grade levels, but we have made it developmentally appropriate for a Kindergarten classroom.  We do not choose read alouds that are on a Kindergarten 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 Kinder 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 Kinder units:

➧Lined Writing Pages and Sentence Starters

➧Printables have very little cutting involved.  If there is cutting, it is very basic.

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

➧Foundational Skills Included

➧Directed Drawings have simplified steps and a starting page

➧Crafts are easy to cut and assemble or they can simply be colored

➧Vocabulary Cards have pictures

➧Kinder appropriate activities, assessments, passages, and more

Please note: We provide resources/printables for foundational skills. However, we do not claim that this is a complete phonics program. Rooted in Reading was built to address the comprehension, vocabulary, and language standards. Many schools and districts have very specific plans for foundational skills/phonics. Our goal is to simply provide extra materials for teachers to use during their phonics instruction.

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.