Boxes 6-pack Author: Feana Tu 'akoi ISBN: 9780790320298 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Information skills, Prior knowledge, Vocabulary and word study Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Challenge Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

A group of children stack their colored lunch boxes as high as they can.  Inevitably, the stack falls!

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of using prior knowledge, predicting using illustrations, and inferring.  It provides opportunities for practicing one-to-one word matching, directionality, and recognition of high-frequency words.  The illustrations provide opportunities for extending the student’s oral language.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

•  the high-frequency words – a, here, is, look, out
•  the repeated initial consonant -b – blue, box, boxes
•  the upper-case and lower-case forms of initial letters – B, L, b, l
•  the color names
•  the high proportion of single syllable words
•  the change in text structure on page 8
•  the ending and the exclamation mark for emphasis on page 8
•  the visual subplot (the bird taking part in the game)

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