Rooted in Reading November Comprehension for Kindergarten w/ Grammar & Phonics

Up the engagement in your ELA block with a complete set of November lesson plans and reading activities! Featuring Thanksgiving activities! Students will identify the problem and solution, describe the beginning, middle, and end, make connections, and retell the main events of a story.

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 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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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 November (In order of how we suggest teaching the books):

The Cool Bean by Jory John

Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora

Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Mallard

A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting

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 NOVEMBER 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:

Identify Problem and Solution

Describe the Beginning, Middle, and End of Story

Making Connections

Retell the Main Events of the Story

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

The Problem Printable

Solutions Printable

Help Zoey Printable

Help Chick Pea Printable

Story Structure Printable

Story Structure Flap-Ups

Story Structure Sort

Making Connections Printable

Text-to-Self Connections

Text to World Connections Map

Story Elements Printable

Story Elements BME

Retelling Hand

● 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.

All About Lima Beans

Community Helpers

Bread

Turkeys

● Anchor Charts

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

The Cool Bean Problem and Solution

Let's Investigate Lima Beans

Thank You, Omu BME

Our Community Helpers Chart

Let's Make Connections

Brilliantly Baked Bread

A Turkey for Thanksgiving Retell Chart

Let's Go On a Turkey Trot Fact 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.

The Cool Bean

Boy with Soup

Fry Bread

Turkey

● Crafts (with writing pages)

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

Lima Bean

Taxi Cab

Bread Booklet

Moose

● Foundational Skills:  Syllables

-Syllable Digital Chart

-Syllable Pocket Chart Materials

-Syllables Clap it Out Printables

-Spinning Syllables Printables

-Syllables Cut and Glue Printables

-Syllables Write the Sound Printables

● Grammar:  Adjectives

Adjectives Focus Poster

Adjective Picture and Word Cards

Printable:  I Can Use Adjectives

Printable:  Draw and Write

Printable:  Describing Words

Printable:  Which Doesn't Belong

Printable: Adjective Assessment

● Grammar:  Adjectives: Color and Texture Words

Color Words Focus Poster

Texture Focus Poster

Color Word and Picture Cards

Printable:  Color Words

Printable:  I Spy Color Words

Texture Word and Picture Cards

Printable:  Texture Words

Printable:  I Feel

Printable: Adjective Assessment

● Grammar:  Sorting Adjectives

Sorting Focus Poster

Sorting Picture Cards (x3)

Printable:  I Can Sort By Color

Printable:  Color Sort

Printable:  Big and Small Sort

Printable: Hot and Cold Sort

Printable: Sorting Assessment

● Grammar: Creating Sentences

Opposites Digital Poster

Opposites Picture and Word Cards

Printable:  Draw and Write Opposites

Printable:  Name the Opposites

Printable:  Opposite Match

Printable:  Color the Opposites

Printable:  Are We Opposite?

● 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.