Amazing Amazon 6-pack Author: Jocelyn Cranefield ISBN: 9780790327440 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: K Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Determining cause and effect, Author's purpose Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Place and regions, Changing earth Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

Using dramatic photographs and simple diagrams, this book provides information about the Amazon River, which is forever changing shape as water flows along it.  (Big idea: The land can change shape over time).

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• understanding the author’s purpose
• identifying the main ideas
• determining cause and effect

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using photographs to support the text
• using a contents page, glossary (boldface type), and index
• reading captions to gain information about photos
• reading maps, charts, and diagrams
• using aerial maps to get a wide view

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (Amazon), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Discovering My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • headings that introduce new aspects of the topic and support students to read information in sections
  • contents page, glossary (boldface type), index
  • captions that add information
  • aerial views
  • chart to show comparison
    • map with a key
  • captions to give information about photographs
  • diagram that explains the action of the river
  • labels to help read features on aerial maps
• Word study:
  • digraphs – “ch,” “th,” “sh”
  • compound words – everywhere, riverbank
  • contractions – it’s
  • suffixes – “-ly,” “-est,” “-ing”
  • silent letters – high, through, mighty, climb, knocks
• Possessive apostrophe – Earth’s
• Exclamation points
• Comparison words – long, wide, widest, longest, tiny, giant, slowly, quickly, fast-moving, slow
• Descriptive language
  • metaphor – the lungs of planet Earth
  • alliteration – amazing Amazon

For more information please see our Lesson Plan