Explore family, feelings, and big changes with this engaging Rooted in Reading companion for Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson! This week-long resource helps students use what they already know to understand characters and events more deeply, while strengthening comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar skills.

Over the course of 5 days, students will focus on using schema and making inferences. Through discussions, anchor charts, response activities, and printables, students will learn how their background knowledge works like a mental file cabinet and how combining text clues with schema helps them infer what characters are thinking and feeling.

Students will also read the paired nonfiction reader Picking Apart Pecans, building background knowledge and making connections to the week's mentor text.

Vocabulary instruction focuses on the words gulp, marvelous, fuss, sprouts, and stoop, giving students multiple opportunities to build word knowledge and understand vocabulary in context.

Each day includes a Daily Deep Dive featuring a mentor sentence from the story. Students use the sentence to practice close reading, editing, grammar, noticing how language works, and thinking deeply about meaning.

The week's grammar focus is adverbs of time, with practice using words that tell when and how often in sentences.

This resource includes:

• 5 days of detailed lesson plans for comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar
• Comprehension lessons focused on schema and making inferences
• Comprehension focus posters, book question cards, and anchor chart templates
• Fiction reading passage, reading response activities, printables, and assessments
• Paired nonfiction reader and pecan informational writing craft
• Vocabulary activities featuring the week's targeted words
• Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence activities
• Grammar lessons and activities focused on adverbs of time