Rooted in Reading Kinder May Lesson Plans for Comprehension Grammar Phonics

Calling all Kindergarten Teachers who are ready to TRANSFORM their ELA block! 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 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!  

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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 May:

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson

Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez

My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

Land Shark by Beth Ferry

KINDERGARTEN Rooted in Reading Units:

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Ⓠ What is included in the MAY 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:

Recognize the Steps in a Sequence

Main Topic and Key Details

Making Connections

Information from Illustrations

Identifying How a Character Changes

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

How To Printable

Steps in How To Printable

Act It Out Flap-Ups

Act It Out Cards

Topic and Main Idea Printable

Key Facts Flap-Ups

Seagulls Passage and Printable

Text To Self Connections Printable

Making Connections Printable

Illustrations Printable

Character Action Printable

Character Change Printable

What Cause the Change 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.

Fresh and Clean

Remarkable Reptiles

Modes of Transportation

Whose Fin Is This? Shark Reader

● Anchor Charts

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

How To Wash a Woolly Mammoth How To Steps Chart

Squeaky Clean Animals

Joan Procter Topic/Main Idea Anchor Chart

Really Remarkable Reptiles Anchor Chart

Let’s Make Text to Self Connections Chart

Modes of Transportation Anchor Chart

Characters Can Change Chart

Types of Sharks Chart

● 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.

Woolly Mammoth

Joan Procter

Train

Shark with Character

● Crafts (with writing pages)

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

Bathtub

Komodo Dragon

Helmet

Hammerhead Shark

● Foundational Skills:  Vowel Teams

Vowel Team Posters

Vowel Team Pocket Chart Materials

More Vowel Team Posters

Color Trace Write Printables

Vowel Teams Printables

Sorting Vowel Teams

Trace and Find

Vowel Team Booklets

● Grammar:  Synonyms

Synonym Focus Poster

Synonym Picture and Word Cards

Synonym Printable

Name the Synonym Printable

Synonyms Match

Color the Synonyms

Are We Synonyms

● Grammar:  Shades of Meaning

Shades of Meaning Focus Poster

Shades of Meaning Cards

Shades of Meaning Printable

Ordering Words Printable

Order Up 

Label to Order

Is it Correct? Assessment

● Grammar: Writing and Reading Sentences

Checking Our Sentences Focus Poster

Can You? Printable

Sentences Printable

Sentence Puzzle

What Will We Do? Printable

Making Sentences Printable

Sentences Assessment

Fix the Sentences

● Grammar: Writing and Reading Sentences

Checking Our Sentences Focus Poster

Sharks Sentences Printable

Spin and Write Printable

Read and Fill Printable

Read and Sketch

Sentences Assessment

Fix the Sentences

● 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.

This month the Daily Deep is different from the other months.  This month’s Daily Deep Dive is formatted similarly to our First Grade Rooted in Reading.  The students use the printable to dive deep into one mentor sentence each week.

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.