Transform your ELA block with quality picture books and hands-on reading activities designed to enhance comprehension in your classroom! This complete unit features Fall lesson plans for comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and phonics. Students will learn character feelings, summarizing, central message, nonfiction facts, and more!

3rd grade teachers, are you looking for something to transform your ELA block? Rooted in Reading is a set of lesson plans and activities 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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Books needed for this unit:

**Books can be taught in any order**

Turkey Bowl by Phil Bildner

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

Cactus Soup by Eric A Kimmel

How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting

Comprehension Focuses:

How the Character Feels and Changes

Summarizing

Comparing and Contrasting Folktales

Central Message

Historical Fiction Characteristics

How Character Responds

Nonfiction Facts and Details

Major and Minor Story Events

Grammar Focuses:

Subjects and Predicates

Commas in a Series

Adverbs

Compound Sentences

Nonfiction Readers (displayable version and printer-friendly version for students)

The Cactus

American Football

Native American Tribes

Immigrant Inspiration

But wait, there’s more!

4 Fiction Reading Passages

4 Nonfiction Reading Passages

4 Comprehension Assessments that ask questions about the weekly read aloud and comprehension focus

Interactive Notebook Entries:

Comparing Stone Soup and Cactus Soup Flipbook

Cactus Facts

Folktale Characteristics

Historical Fiction

Major vs Minor Events

Summarizing Printable

Character Change Printable

Character Feelings Flip Ups

Football Facts

How Characters Respond

Character Motivations

Anchor Charts- The templates for the charts are included:

Cactus Facts

Comparing Stone and Cactus Soup Venn Diagram

Central Message

Let's Summarize

Character Feelings BME

Historical Fiction Boat

Vocabulary:

Vocabulary Cards and Definitions

Student Vocabulary Sheet

Matching Vocabulary Words with Synonyms

Vocabulary Spin Printable

Vocabulary Game Boards

Vocabulary Prompt Flapbooks

Vocabulary Assessment

Art and Writing: Football Player Directed Drawing, Turkey Directed Drawing, Horse Directed Drawing, Cactus Craft, Historical Fiction Boat Craft

Daily Deep Dive: Each week we take a sentence from the book to do a daily deep dive! Students have daily activities to complete in their spiral. These activities will focus on the meaning and structure of the sentence.

Grammar:

COMMAS IN A SERIES:

Football Flaps

Putting Sentences Together

Sentence Strips

Correct or Not Scoot

Flap Ups

Assessment

SIMPLE AND COMPOUND SENTENCES:

Putting Sentences Together

Simple to Compound Flap Ups

Simple or Compound Scoot

Compound Sentences Assessment

Compound Sentences Cactus Printable

ADVERBS:

Sort Adverbs and Adjectives

Name the Adverb Scoot

Adverb Flap Ups

Adverb Lightning Printable

Adverb Assessment

SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES:

Write the Subject

Subject and Predicate Spinners

Subject and Predicate Puzzles

Putting Sentences Together

Assessment

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.

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