Rooted in Reading 3rd Grade | Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans for October

Are you ready to excite your 3rd-grade readers with a variety of fall-themed lesson plans and October activities for reading comprehension? Rooted in Reading has everything you need to teach a full month of ELA for point of view, foreshadowing, flashbacks, nonfiction details, finding facts, asking questions, climax, and compare and contrast!

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 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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Books needed for this unit:

**Books can be taught in any order**

Substitute Creacher by Chris Gall

Picnic at Mudsock Meadow by Patricia Polacco

Creature Features by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

Comprehension Focuses:

Point of View

Foreshadowing

Flashbacks

Nonfiction: Facts and Details

Finding Facts

Asking Questinos

Climax

Comparing and Contrasting

Grammar Focuses:

Articles

Quotations and Dialogue

Conjunctions

Plural Nouns (Regular and Irregular)

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

Halloween Traditions

Sugar, Sugar!

Watching Wild Creatures

The Swamp

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:

Finding Facts

Analyzing Flashbacks

Looking for Clues

Comparing and Contrasting

Flashbacks

Point of Views

Asking Questions in the BME

Anchor Charts- The templates for the charts are included:

Facts About Sugar

Swamp Facts

Point of View

Asking Questions in the BME

Creature Features: Facts and Details

Foreshadowing

Vocabulary:

Vocabulary Cards and Definitions

Student Vocabulary Sheet

Matching Vocabulary Words with Synonyms

Vocabulary Game Boards

What's The Word Scoot with words/definitions

Analyzing Words

Vocabulary Assessment

Art and Writing: Giraffe Directed Drawing, Panda Craft, Cattail Craft, Ant Direct Drawing, Monster 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:

CONJUNCTIONS:

Flapbook

Anchor Chart

Coordinating Conjunctions Printable

Putting Sentences Together Activity

Assessment

And/But Sentence Sort

Plural Nouns:

Anchor Chart with Sort

I Have, Who Has

Five in a Row

Plural Noun Game

Plural Noun Assessment

ARTICLES:

Articles Anchor Chart and Sort

Make a match

Articles Assessment

Articles Flapbook

Articles Ant Hat

Articles Sort

QUOTATIONS AND DIALOGUE:

Quotations Anchor Chart

Quotation Rule Posters

Spin and Create Dialogue

Adding Quotation Marks to Sentences

Quotations Assessment

Animal Dialogue

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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