Big Game, The 6-pack Author: Anne M. Bingley ISBN: 9780478120356 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Analyzing themes, Text structure, Vocabulary and word study Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: School and Community, Sports Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early-Fluent

Book Summary

A young boy compares the experience of watching soccer in his old country with that of watching football in his new country, the United States.

Features of the Book

• The specialized vocabulary – “stadium,” “cheerleaders,” “buses,” “musicians,” and “crowd.”
• Language signaling change – “I used to…” and “But here….”
• The use of commas to separate phrases
• Plural forms of nouns, especially “families.”
• The blends – “dr,” “st,” “sh,” “pl,” “ch,” and “cr.”

Purpose

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

• identifying the themes of the book
• discussing the organizational structure of the text
• recognizing and reading a range of different word patterns, including word endings
• writing using a variety of sentence patterns.

For more information please see our Lesson Plan