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Bear Wakes Up

6-pack

Author: Eduardo Medina
ISBN: 9780478264302

Grade Level: 2, 1, K
Reading Level: C
Strategy/Skill: Vocabulary and word study, Making predictions, Comprehension strategies
Theme/Topic: Relationships, Animals, Birds, and Insects
Classification: Fiction
Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Bear is fast asleep while the other animals are busy playing, then some bees wake him up.

 

 

Word Study

  • High-frequency words: Up, Was, was, when, went, to, play, the
  • Punctuation: periods, question mark, capital letters
  • Phonics and phonemic awareness:  W, w – Wakes, Was, was, went, when; – “ing” word ending – sleeping
  • Use of capital letters for animal names, for example, Bear, Mouse, Rabbit

 

 

Skills and Strategies

Reading Bear Wakes Up will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

  • identify high-frequency or interest words
  • understand that the text must make sense and use cues to monitor this
  • use the context of the story to make predictions
  • prepare for independent writing using a variety of methods

 

 

Materials

  • copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 124
  • copies of BLM, pencils, scissors, glue
  • samples of honey

 

 

For more information please see our Lesson Plan

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