Rooted in Reading
ELA Curriculum- ✓Designed for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-grade classrooms
- ✓Centers around a weekly, purposefully-selected picture book.
- ✓Can be used as a stand-alone curriculum or as a supplement to existing ELA blocks.
About this resource
Support students in developing a deeper understanding of characters with this thoughtful read-aloud companion for Crow Boy. This resource guides students through analyzing character feelings, actions, and growth across the story while building strong comprehension skills.
With a full week of structured lessons, students will engage in meaningful discussions, respond to text through writing, and practice vocabulary and grammar skills in context. While created for 3rd grade, this resource is ideal for any classroom focusing on character development and story analysis.
Focus Skills:
- Describing Characters
- Character Feelings
- Character Development Throughout the Story
- Vocabulary Development
- Grammar Focus: Synonyms
What’s Included:
- 5 days of lesson plans
- Read-aloud discussion questions
- Student journal prompts
- Comprehension posters + anchor charts
- Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
- Original nonfiction reader: Japan: Land of the Rising Sun
- Vocabulary activities + assessment
- Grammar lessons + assessment
- Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence work
- Comprehension assessment
- Writing extensions + craft/directed drawing
Meet the creators
Amy Lemons
Teacher & Curriculum Author- ✓Co-creator of Rooted in Reading, now serving K–3
- ✓Co-creator of Magic of Math and Write On! with Hope King
- ✓Taught 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade
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Rooted in Reading: Crow Boy Read Aloud Activities
Reading Comprehension for Character Feelings & Character Developmentby Rooted in Reading and Amy Lemons$5.00Digital download · Zip, PDF
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Resource details
- Resource type
- CurriculumActivities
- Pages
- 96
- Grade levels
- 3rd Grade
- Subjects
- ReadingGrammarVocabulary
- Created by
- Rooted in ReadingAmy Lemons
- License
- One teacher, one classroom
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