Rooted in Reading Kinder - January Lesson Plans, Comprehension, & Literacy

Transform your ELA block with quality picture books and hands-on reading activities designed to enhance reading comprehension! This complete unit features Winter activities and lesson plans for identifying story elements, using dialogue to describe a character, and using illustrations to monitor comprehension!

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!  

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

The Way Home for Wolf by Rachel Bright

Loud Winter’s Nap by Katy Hudson

The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel

KINDERGARTEN Rooted in Reading Units:

Rooted in Reading Kinder August

Rooted in Reading Kinder September

Rooted in Reading Kinder October

Rooted in Reading Kinder November

Rooted in Reading Kinder December

Rooted in Reading Kinder January

Rooted in Reading Kinder February

Rooted in Reading Kinder March

Rooted in Reading Kinder April

Rooted in Reading Kinder May

What is included in the JANUARY unit? 

● 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 and Discuss Story Elements

Use Dialogue to Describe a Character

Using Illustrations to Monitor Comprehension

● Comprehension Printables/Interactive Notebooks:

Story Elements Digital Poster

Story Elements Printable

Setting Digital Poster

Setting Images

Setting Printable

Character Feelings Digital Poster

Character Feelings Flap-Ups

Dialogue Digital Poster

Speech Bubble Printable

Using Dialogue to Describe a Character Digital Poster

Character Flap-Up

Instead of Said Digital Poster

Instead of Said Printable

Illustrations Digital Poster

Picture Walk Digital Poster

Illustrations Printable

Animal Actions Printable

Illustrations Printable

Opposites Digital Poster

Opposites Printable

Illustrations Draw and Label Printable

Making Connections Digital Poster

Making Connections 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.

Arctic Animals

Hibernating Animals

Emotions

Tide Pools

● Anchor Charts

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

Animals of the Arctic

Story Elements for The Way Home for Wolf

Let’s Describe Tortoise

Animals That Hibernate

The Rabbit Listened Retell

We Have Emotions

The Stone Sat Still Monitoring Comprehension

All About Tide Pools

● 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.

Wilf the Wolf

Tortoise

Rabbit

Snail on a Rock

● Crafts (with writing pages)

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

Narwhal

Groundhog

Emoji

Hermit Crab

● Foundational Skills:  Short Vowels

- Vowel Digital Posters

- Vowel Tents

- Short Vowel Anchor Charts

- Short Vowel Mini-Books

- Medial Vowels Printables

- Basic CVC Word Printables

- Treasure Hunt Medial Vowels Printables

- Spin a Medial Vowel Printables

● Grammar:  Prepositions of Place

Prepositions Digital Poster

Where does the moth fly activity

Where did the wolf go? Activity

Where are the snowflakes falling? Activity

Preposition Printable

Preposition Assessment

● Grammar:  Prepositions of Position

Prepositions Digital Poster

Preposition Picture Cards

Where Does the Tortoise Sleep Activity

Groundhog on the Go Activity

Which is Which? Printable

Pick the Preposition

Preposition Assessment

● Grammar:  Prepositions

Prepositions Digital Poster

Preposition Match

Preposition Flap-Book

Preposition Sort

Prepositions in Sentences

Prepositions Assessment

● Grammar: Articles

Articles Digital Poster

Articles Anchor Chart

A or An Printable

A or An Writing Words Printable

Choose the Article Printable

Articles Assessment 

● 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.