Elevate your November ELA block with Rooted in Reading for 2nd Grade! This comprehensive unit combines rich picture books and engaging, Thanksgiving-themed reading activities designed to boost comprehension and critical thinking skills. With lesson plans and activities for each week, students dive into making inferences, character analysis, text connections, and more—all while enjoying Thanksgiving stories and hands-on learning!

This November reading comprehension bundle aligns with Common Core Standards and TEKS, making it ideal as either a stand-alone curriculum or a supplement. Teachers will find everything they need to support a love of reading, including detailed lesson plans, crafts, printables, and comprehension resources based on four powerful picture books. Each read-aloud encourages deep thinking, questioning, and comprehension strategies that captivate students.

Why You'll Love This Resource:

Engaging Thanksgiving-Themed Lessons: Perfect for November, these activities keep students motivated and excited to learn.

• Flexible Curriculum: Use as a full program or pick and choose activities to suit your students' needs.
• Comprehensive Skill Development: From vocabulary and grammar to reading comprehension, this unit provides a holistic approach.

What’s Included in the November Unit:

• Daily Lesson Plans for 4 Weeks
• Book Question Cards for Guided Discussions
• Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Passages
• Comprehension Assessments and Mentor Sentences

Comprehension Focus Areas:

• Making Inferences
• Describing Characters and Character Feelings
• Comparing Stories
• Making Connections
• Finding Facts and Using Text Clues

Hands-On Comprehension Printables and Interactive Notebooks:

• Flap-Ups for Making Inferences and Character Analysis
• Turkey Facts
• Venn Diagrams for Comparing Stories
• Inference Puzzles
• “Feelings Detective” and Generosity Flap-Ups

Nonfiction Readers:

• Turkey Talk
• Northeastern Native American Way of Life
• Bullying Hurts
• How to Become a Chef

Anchor Charts:

• Describing Characters in Turk and Runt and The Rough-Face Girl
• Making Inferences with Turk and Runt
• The Truth About Turkeys
• Generosity and Text Connections

Vocabulary Development:

• Vocabulary Cards and Journals
• Read-and-Match and ABC Order Exercises
• Vocabulary Assessments

Directed Drawings with Writing Pages:

• Turkey, The Rough-Face Girl, Superhero, and Chef

Creative Crafts with Writing Prompts:

• Turkey, Wish Wand, Crown, Shoe Booklet, Soup Can

Grammar Activities:

• Adverbs: Sorts, Booklets, and Circle the Adverbs
• Adjectives: Sorting, Character Descriptions, and Adjective Activities
• Synonyms & Antonyms: Sorting Pairs, Flap-Ups, and My Synonym Rolls
• Sentence Work: Sorting, Editing, Expanding Sentences, and the Expanding Sentences Soup Pot Booklet

Note: This unit requires the books The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin, Stone Soup by Marcia Brown, Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler, and Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts.

Transform November into a meaningful Thanksgiving reading adventure with Rooted in Reading!

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.