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Animals in Danger
6-pack
ISBN: 9780790327204
Grade Level:
K
Reading Level:
C
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Overview
This simple text looks at animals that are in danger and need our help, such as whales, pandas, and manatees. (Big idea: People need to care for animals that are in danger.)
Suggested Purposes
This book supports the following comprehension strategies:
- making connections between prior knowledge and the text
- identifying the main ideas
- asking questions.
It supports the following nonfiction strategies:
- using photographs to get information
- using a glossary
Features of the Text
- Nonfiction features:
- cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
- the topic (endangered animals), which expands on pages 10 and 11 of the anchor book Helping Planet Earth
- preview question on the back cover
- photographs that match text
- picture glossary
- Word study:
- initial consonants – bear, bird; tiger, turtle
- initial consonant blends – “fr-,” “wh-”
- plural nouns – bears, birds, frogs, manatees, pandas, seals, tigers, turtles, whales
- “er” word endings – danger, tiger
- soft and hard “g” – danger, tiger
- close look at visual discrimination of “d” (need) and “p” (help)
- medial sound “ea” – seals
- Repetitive sentence structure
For more information please see our Lesson Plan.
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