Big Bed, The 6-pack Author: Joy Cowley ISBN: 9780478120349 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: I Strategy/Skill: Vocabulary and word study, Text structure, Fluency Genre: Recount Theme/Topic: Humor, Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early-Fluent

Book Summary

Everyone wants to get in bed with Mom and Dad – including the pets – but Dad would prefer to sleep in!

Features of the Book

• The use of direct speech.
• The contractive apostrophes – “I’ll,” “don’t,” “He’s,” “can’t,” “We’ll,” “didn’t,” “I’m,” “It’s,” and “That’s.”
• The use of exclamation points.
• The adjectives used to describe the bed.
• The use of everyday language – “OK” and “Go on. Out!”
• The expression in the illustrations.
• The opportunities for prediction and confirmation.
• The root words in “wanted,” “jumping,” “going,” “jumped,” and “looked.”

Purpose

The Big Bed can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• understanding the punctuation cues and their meanings
• recognizing and reading one- and two-syllable words
• identifying the plot and characters within the story
• writing using common contractions

For more information please see our Lesson Plan