1,2,3..Recycle 6-pack Author: Sue Gibbison ISBN: 9780790327402 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: F Strategy/Skill: Author's purpose, Evaluating ideas and information Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Environment, Materials and objects Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This book explores how recycling can help solve the problem of plastic.  It explains the recycling process in simple numbered steps, using photographs, fact boxes, charts, and diagrams.  It includes tips on how the reader can help solve the plastic problem.  (Big idea:  People need to recycle things instead of throwing them away.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• understanding the author’s purpose
• evaluating ideas and information.

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using photographs to gain information
• identifying procedural words
• using charts to gain information
• reading a flow diagram
• using a glossary (boldface type)

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (recycling), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Helping Planet Earth
  • preview question on the back cover
  • step-by-step action photographs
  • flow diagram
  • charts
  • captions
  • close-up photographs
  • glossary (boldface type)
  • specialized vocabulary
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “sk-,” “st-,” pl-,” “cl-,” “st-,” “tr-,” “sl-”
  • final consonant blend – “-st”
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh,” “ch,” “thr”
  • contractions – it’s
  • compound words – landfills, around, yourself, skateboard
  • procedural words – first, next, then
• Exclamation points, question marks
• Descriptive language – Is plastic fantastic?

For more information please see our Lesson Plan