Big Picture, The 6-pack Author: Mary Bennett ISBN: 9780478124330 Copyright Date: 2000 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 6 Reading Level: Y Strategy/Skill: Asking questions, Features of nonfiction, Information skills, Summarizing Genre: Explanation, Procedure Theme/Topic: Careers, The Arts, The Media Classification: Nonfiction

Book Summary

It takes many months and hundreds of people to make a television drama series.  This book joins the cast and crew of The Tribe to find out what life is like on a film set and how the series is transformed from the written script to the screen.

Features of the Book

• The features of a nonfiction text – contents page, glossary, and index
• The use of bold and italicized text
• Large, labeled photographs
• The extra information in the fact files and captions
• Daily schedule to show the sequences involved
• Quotes from production crew and actors
• Procedural text
• The varied format – patterned backgrounds, facsimiles of documents, film frames as borders.

Purpose

The Big Picture can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:

• formulating questions to help locate relevant information
• summarizing information using key phrases
• using an index to navigate text
• reading and writing procedural text
• creating effective flow diagrams
• exploring different ways of presenting information

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