Bring character development to life with this engaging Rooted in Reading companion for The Bad Seed! This week-long resource helps students explore how characters change from the beginning to the end of a story while building strong reading, vocabulary, and grammar skills.

Over the course of 5 days, students will dive into meaningful comprehension lessons focused on identifying characters and analyzing how they change throughout the story. Through interactive discussions, anchor charts, response activities, and printables, students will build a deeper understanding of character development.

Students will also explore a paired nonfiction reader about sunflowers, strengthening connections between fiction and nonfiction texts while building background knowledge.

Vocabulary instruction is woven throughout the week with engaging picture cards, student-friendly activities, and meaningful journal prompts to support understanding of key words from the text.

Each day includes a Daily Deep Dive where students interact with a mentor sentence from the story—building skills in reading, editing, grammar, and comprehension.

The week also includes a grammar focus on capital letters in sentences, with targeted mini-lessons, practice activities, and an assessment to reinforce learning.

To keep students engaged, this resource includes a hands-on craft and directed drawing with a written response that connects back to the text and nonfiction reader.

This resource includes:

• 5 days of detailed lesson plans (comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar)
• Comprehension focus posters, anchor chart templates, and discussion questions
• Response activities, printables, and assessments
• Original nonfiction reader and reading passage
• Vocabulary picture cards, activities, and assessment
• Daily Deep Dive mentor sentence activities
• Grammar lessons, activities, and assessment (Capital Letters in Sentences)
• Craft and directed drawing with text-based response