Bring seasonal learning into your literacy block with Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht! This Kindergarten Rooted in Reading unit provides 5 days of lesson plans and activities that help students explore how authors use rhyme and rhythm in text.

Throughout the week, students will listen for rhyming words and phrases, explore rhythm, and develop an understanding of sentences while building vocabulary and comprehension.

Skills & Topics Include:

Reading Comprehension

• Rhyme
• Rhyming Phrases
• Rhythm

Vocabulary

• speckled
• flicker
• lean
• snarl

Grammar

• Sentences

Nonfiction Connection

• Farmers

Students will engage with comprehension lessons, response activities, vocabulary instruction, grammar practice, anchor chart templates, assessments, and Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence activities that encourage close attention to how sentences work.

The unit also includes an original nonfiction reader about farmers and engaging literacy activities that connect the read-aloud, nonfiction learning, vocabulary, and language skills into one cohesive week of instruction.