Be An Energy Expert 6-pack Author: Julia Wall ISBN: 9780790327044 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: M Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making connections, Summarizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Environment, Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This book provides information about the natural resources we use to make energy.  It suggests ways to use these resources carefully and better ways of making energy so Earth’s resources will last longer.  (Big idea: People need to use resources carefully.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• identifying the main ideas
• summarizing the main ideas

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• gaining information from photographs
• reading diagrams to understand how things work
• getting information from captions using a glossary (boldface type)
• reading bulleted lists for facts

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (sustainability), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Helping Planet Earth
  • 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), and index
  • captions
  • boxes that summarize each section
  • graph
  • turbine diagram
  • summary box of the positives and negatives about different energy resources
• Word study:
  • compound words – everything, forever, meantime, outdoors, sometimes, windmills
  • silent “k”– knowledge
  • digraphs – “sh,” “th,” “wh”
  • singular possessive noun (adding ‘s) – Earth’s
  • contractions – can’t, don’t, doesn’t, let’s, won’t
  • multisyllabic words – carefully, computer, electricity, energy, environment, natural, pollution, population, resources
• Questions that focus attention on the topic (page )
• Use of exclamation points and question marks
• Quiz to test the students’ knowledge

For more information please see our Lesson Plan