All Aboard! 6-pack Author: Alan Bagnall ISBN: 9780790320199 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: K Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections, Visualizing Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

Grandpa’s boat, The Queen of Spain, lies unused on his front lawn.  The boat hasn’t completed its final ocean voyage, however, as Kate and her friends take it on a magnificent journey to Spain.  This is a lively and imaginative poetic text.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of identifying the main ideas, visualizing, and using illustrations to understand text.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

• the theme of cooperation and working together for enjoyment
• the importance of dreaming and using your imagination
• the unnamed, first-person narrator
• the use of dialogue to drive the narrative
• the -ing word ending – coming, moving, swishing, splashing, barking, cooking
• the contractions – they’re, we’re, I’ll, there’s
• the descriptive language to create images in the reader’s mind and enhance the story
• the compound words – Grandpa, lookout
• the exclamation marks for emphasis
• the imperative verbs – look, listen
• the use of rhyme – Spain, again
• the content words
• the action verbs – beat, whips
• the simile – the ocean is like a dangerous monster
• the blends – oa, ai, ee, st, sl, sp

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