Rooted in Reading March Comprehension for Kindergarten w/ 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 March:

I am a Cat by Galia Berstein

One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies

Sumo Joe by Mia Wenjen

The Princess and the Pea by Rachel Isadora

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 MARCH 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:

Synthesize Information to Create New Understanding

Establish Purpose for Nonfiction, Key Details

Use Illustrations to help answer questions, Unknown Words

Compare and Contrast 2 Fairy Tales

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

I Can Change My Thinking Flap-Book

I Can Put it All Together Printable

Deep Thinking Printable

Fun or Facts Printable

Top Turtle Facts Booklet

True or False Printable

Using Illustrations Printable

Figuring Out Words Flap-Book

Glossary Printable

Fairy Tale Printable

Sleeping Beauty Printable

Comparing Fairy Tales 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.

Snow Leopards

Ocean Animals

Women in Sports

Royalty Around the World

● Anchor Charts

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

Synthesizing Anchor Chart

Sly Snow Leopard Facts

One Tiny Turtle Chart

Outrageous Ocean Animals

Asking and Answering Questions

Women in Sports

Let’s Compare Stories 

Royalty Around the World

● 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.

Snow Leopard

Manatee

Aikido Jo (character from story)

Princess and the Pea

● Crafts (with writing pages)

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

Cat

Turtle Coming out of Egg

Tennis Racket

Castle

● Foundational Skills:  Blends and Digraphs

Blends and Digraphs Posters

Blends and Digraphs Pocket Chart

Blend and Digraph Sort

Blend Them  Printables

Cookin Up Blends Printables

Digraphs Booklets

Color the Blends Printables

● Grammar:  Questions

Question Digital Poster

Question Word Activity

We Can Ask Questions Anchor Chart

Sentences with Question Marks

Punctuation Pick It

Asking Questions

● Grammar:  Questions

Question Sort

I Can Write a Question Printable

Make a Sentence

Question Puzzle

Please Fix Me!

Punctuation Assessment

● Grammar:  Common and Proper Nouns

Common and Proper Noun Digital Posters

Common and Proper Noun Anchor Chart Sort

Noun Printable

Common and Proper Noun Flap-Book Sort

Noun Sort

Common and Proper Noun Flap-Book Word Sort

Proper Noun Assessment

● Grammar: Pronouns- she, he, they

Pronoun Digital Posters

Pronoun Anchor Chart  Sort

Pronoun Practice

Which Pronoun Printable

Pronoun Flap-Book

Pronoun Pick It

Pronoun Assessment

● 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.