2nd Grade Rooted in Reading is a Reading Curriculum focused on strengthening reading comprehension. The teacher reads the book throughout the week and models how to think deeply, ask questions, and monitor comprehension. Students practice skills through interactive notebooks, reading passages, reading response printables, and assessments. Daily activities for vocabulary, grammar, and mentor sentences are also included. All lesson plans and activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards and TEKS. 

The picture books DO need to be purchased in order to use the units. You can find the book list and a yearly overview of Common Core and Texas standards below:

ROOTED IN READING BOOKS AND OVERVIEW

Each weekly resource contains the following:

• Daily Lesson Plans for comprehension, vocabulary and grammar
• Common Core and TEKS alignment
• Questioning Cards to deepen thinking and questioning
• Reading Comprehension activities for interactive notebooks
• Nonfiction reading passage with response questions
• Fiction reading passage with response questions
• Comprehension Quiz over the weekly read aloud
• Vocabulary Cards with Definitions (words are chosen for each book)
• Vocabulary Activities
• Vocabulary Printables
• Directed Drawings with Writing Pages that tie back to the weekly read aloud
• Crafts with Writing Pages that tie back to the weekly read aloud
• Writing Ideas and Activities
• Grammar Activities with a weekly grammar focus
• Anchor Chart Ideas and Templates to be used during comprehension lessons
• Nonfiction Readers

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.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Q: What Is Rooted in Reading?

A: Rooted in Reading is a reading program that can be used as a supplement or the main reading curriculum. It is always best to look at the requirements by your state/district/school when selecting lessons that are for your classroom. Rooted in Reading focuses on one read aloud each week so that students can deepen their understanding, focus on the structure of the story, and use the different reading strategies and skills that we match with the story.

Q: How many copies of the read aloud does the teacher need?

A: Rooted in Reading is based on a READ ALOUD where the teacher is reading to the students. The teacher models fluency, expression, thinking out loud, and understanding a text. This ensures that the students take all of those best practices and put them into place when they are reading independently.

Q: If the teacher is reading the story, how are the students held accountable for independent reading?

A: Did you know that the majority of reading standards are not meant to be tackled only during independent reading? In fact, we can't accurately assess our students' independent comprehension based on one story because they are all on different reading levels. Students should also be reading books on their own level so that they can implement what they have learned through Rooted in Reading. This can be done during guided reading using leveled readers. BUT, we also include reading passages and nonfiction readers that can be used for independent or partner reading.

Q: How do you get grades?

A: Grades can be taken on the comprehension quizzes, reading passages, vocabulary activities/assessment, grammar activities, and interactive notebook components.

Q: What do you tell parents that ask if they can get a copy of the main read aloud to practice with their child?

A: You are more than welcome to send the book list home with the parents, but it is not feasible to provide a copy of the book for every student. That would be very expensive. Most of the books can be found on YouTube by googling the title. One very important component to Rooted in Reading is diving deep WITH students DURING class. The book will be read more than once each week and students focus on the story each and every day. They will get enough exposure to that story during class with their teacher.

Q: There are so many activities included, how do you fit it all in?

A: Go through the lesson plans and activities each week. Pull out what matches your standards and classroom needs. Focus on those first. Use the other activities during ELA centers or when you have extra time. We try to include a lot so that teachers have everything they need, but there is definitely always more than enough!

Q: Do the books have to be read in order?

A: You can definitely switch books around to match the scope and sequence for where you are. Some of the books are seasonal/holiday related, but the ones that are not can be taught at any time!

Q: We can't read Christmas books in my district, what should we do?

A: There are 40 weeks of lesson plans in Rooted in Reading. We suggest outlining when you want to teach each story. Most schools go between 36-38 weeks so you should have a couple that can be moved into December or wherever is needed!