Help students discover which details matter most with this engaging Rooted in Reading companion for If Your Monster Won't Go to Bed by Denise Vega! This week-long resource builds students' ability to identify, organize, and retell important information from a story while strengthening reading, vocabulary, and grammar skills.

Over the course of 5 days, students will focus on identifying key details, retelling with key details, and sequencing key details. Through discussions, anchor charts, response activities, and printables, students learn to separate important story information from smaller details and use what they know to retell events in a logical order.

Students will also explore the paired nonfiction topic Can't Look? Creatures That Seem Scary But Really Aren't, extending the week's learning beyond the story and helping students build background knowledge.

Vocabulary instruction focuses on the words snarl, bristly, massive, shiver, and neighborhood, with opportunities for students to develop a deeper understanding of each word in context.

Each day includes a Daily Deep Dive featuring a mentor sentence from the story. Students revisit the sentence throughout the week to read closely, notice language, edit, practice grammar, and think about meaning.

The week's grammar focus is adjectives, helping students recognize how describing words add detail and meaning to sentences.

Hands-on and creative response activities provide additional opportunities for students to demonstrate comprehension and connect their learning back to the text.

This resource includes:

• 5 days of detailed lesson plans for comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar
• Comprehension lessons for key details, retelling, and sequencing
• Comprehension focus posters, anchor chart templates, and discussion questions
• Reading response activities, printables, and assessments
• Paired nonfiction learning about creatures that may seem scary
• Vocabulary activities featuring the week's targeted words
• Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence activities
• Grammar lessons and activities focused on adjectives
• Engaging text-based response activities