Reading Comprehension Unit – Snowmen at Night - Ms. Cotton's Corner

Reading Comprehension Unit – Snowmen at Night

Posted on December 14, 2023 by scotton23 One comment

“Snowmen at Night” is a delightful read aloud about the hijinks of snowmen while everyone else is sleeping. Your students will love the adventures and the rhyming text. This FREE resource includes phonics, comprehension and Vocabulary/Sight Words activities to go with the book, “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner. If you love this book, be sure to check out this blog post about the companion book, “Snowmen at Christmas”!

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This read aloud unit includes activities to teach Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Sight Words and Vocabulary. The lesson includes supports for teaching the concepts, a fun Story Sticks sequencing craft, center activities and practice pages.

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What is Included in this Kindergarten Read Aloud Resource?

This resource features a variety of phonics and reading comprehension activities based on the delightful book “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner. Your students will LOVE this fun story with its imaginative illustrations, and have a blast practicing phonics skills of letter names, reading sight words, and the connected text of the emergent reader. You will love these reading activities that keep students engaged and learning.

The included lesson plans give you plenty of ideas for using these reading activities to teach important literacy skills such as uppercase and lowercase letter match, sequencing and retelling the story, word families, and sight words. Students will love the Story Sticks craft that helps them reinforce the concept of sequencing. They will also love the Spin and Read circles that help them practice reading word families!

Bring together comprehension and sight words with the emergent reader – Where do Snowmen Go?. The books gives students practice with sight words, setting of a story and emergent reader skills such as left to right, concept of a word, and more! There are plenty of reading activities to keep the learning going!

How Does This Unit Fit with the Science of Reading?

I have been learning and writing a lot about Science of Reading lately. The Reading League is the driving force behind helping educators bring Science to our classrooms. They advocate for the Simple View of Reading.

The Simple View of Reading is WR x LC = RC.

The Simple View says that Word Recognition (WR) x Language Comprehension (LC) = Reading Comprehension (RC). In other words, Reading Comprehension is the goal, and students reach comprehension when they understand the language and recognize the words.

This unit fits into that formula in a number of ways.

Word Recognition depends on letter recognition and the ability to use the sounds of letters to pronounce words. Those skills are supported in the Phonics section of this resource. The Sight Word practice is also key for building strong Word Recognition skills (there are two included sight words activities in this resource). The Spin and Read activity is also a fun phonics activity that helps students learn to read word families. Sound Mapping is another great phonics activity included in this resource.
Language Comprehension is more complicated. Vocabulary development is one piece of that process, and the Write Around the Room activity supports vocabulary development.
Literacy Knowledge is also considered part of Language Comprehension, and this unit supports Literacy Knowledge with the Text Dependent Questions, The Sequencing activities, the Story Sticks

This Reading Comprehension Unit brings Science-based components together to help students grow as readers. For more information on all that is included in the Science of Reading, be sure to check out these blog posts.

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