Rooted in Reading December for Kindergarten | Christmas Reading Comprehension

Save TIME and ENERGY this December with these Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans and Hands-on Reading Activities, including Winter and Holiday-themed! Enhance the Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Phonics in your classroom as students learn about determining lesson of the story, sequencing events, characteristics of a fairy tale, and describing characters!

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

Blackout by John Rocco

The Wish Tree by Kyo Maclear

Little Red Ruthie by Gloria Koster

Santa Bruce by Ryan T Higgins

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 DECEMBER 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:

Determine the Lesson of the Story

Sequencing Events of the Story

Characteristics of a Fairy Tale

Describing Characters

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

Lesson Digital Poster

The Problem Printable

Figuring Out the Lesson Poster

Writing/Drawing the Problem Printable

Putting it All Into Words Poster

Determining the Lesson Scenarios

BME Story Structure Poster

BME Flap-Ups

Sequence Poster

Sequencing Story Printable

Sequence and Comprehension Poster

Sequence Cut and Paste Printable

Fairy Tales Poster

Fairy Tales Printable

Fractured Fairy Tales Poster

Little Red Ruthie Flap-Ups

Compare and Contrast Poster

Comparing Fairy Tales Venn Diagram Flap-Ups

Describing Characters Poster

Describe a  Character Flap Up

Character Actions Poster

I Can Describe Characters Printable

Describing Characters 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.

Electricity

Winter Sports

Hanukkah

Black Bears

● Anchor Charts

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

What is the Lesson

All About Electricity

Retelling the Wish Tree BME

Wonderful Winter Athletes

Little Red Ruthie

Learning About Hanukkah

Let’s Describe Bruce

Let’s Learn About Black Bears

● 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.

Happy Light Bulb

Winter Athlete

Little Red Ruthie

Santa Bruce

● Crafts (with writing pages)

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

Flashlight

Tree

Jelly Doughnut

Black Bear

● Foundational Skills:  Word Families and CVC words

- Word Family Digital Chart

- CVC Word Family Pocket Chart Materials

- Word Family Posters

- Basic Word Family Printables

- Cut and Glue Word Family Printables

- Spin and Spell Printables

- Word Family Write the Words Printables

● Grammar:  Complete Sentences

Sentences Focus Poster

Not a Sentence Focus Poster

Sentences in the Sky Printable

Writing Sentences Printable

Am I A Sentence Printable

I Can Find Sentences Sort

Sentences Assessment

● Grammar:  Punctuation

Periods Digital Poster

Deck the Halls Sentence Printable

Writing Sentences Printable

Sentences Flapbook

The Punctuation Pick Sort

Punctuation Sort

● Grammar:  Checking Our Sentences

Checking Sentences Focus Posters

Sentences Printable

Sentence Puzzle Printable

Choose One Printable

Making Sentences Printable

Sentences Assessment

● Grammar: Letter to Santa

Making a Plan Printable

Santa Letter Templates

Santa Craft Templates

Sentence Puzzle

Merry and Bright Sentence Printable

Fix the Sentences Printable

● 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.