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Box, The

6-pack

Author: Jane Buxton
ISBN: 9780478123449

Grade Level: 2, 1, K
Reading Level: B, A
Strategy/Skill: Using texts as models for own writing, Phonics, Comprehension strategies
Theme/Topic: Art and Activity
Classification: Nonfiction
Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Two children play with a box and use their imaginations to create various objects.

 

 

Building Basic Skills

  • High-frequency words – The, It, is, a
  • Content words – Box, boat, bed, store, car, bus, house, plane, broken
  • Repeated phrase – It is a
  • Phonics and phonemic awareness – B (Box), b (boat, bed, bus, broken), c (car), h (house)
  • Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation point

 

 

Skills and Strategies

The Box can be used to introduce and reinforce:

  • responding to simple questions about the story content
  • monitoring reading and ensuring that it is making sense using meaning, structural, and visual information from the story
  • writing a story that incorporates a similar model to that of the book recognizing the relationship between letters and their sounds.

 

 

Materials

  • copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 94, cut and ready for use
  • copies of BLM, pencil, markers
  • large cardboard box, selection of books
  • variety of cardboard boxes, craft material

 

 

For more information please see our Lesson Plan

Price: $24.00


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