Bubbles Keep Me Clean 6-pack Author: Kate Boyle ISBN: 9780790327068 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: A Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Making connections, Main ideas Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Hygiene, Health, Daily routines Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

In this book, a boy describes how he takes a bath.  The simple text uses rhythm and rhyme to engage and support the reader.  (Big idea: People take care of themselves by keeping clean.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• making and confirming predictions
• identifying the main ideas.

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• using photographs to support understanding of the text.

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (keeping clean), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Taking Care of
    Yourself
  • preview question on the back cover
  • photographs that support the text 

• Word study:
  • body vocabulary – fi ngers, toes, ears, nose, chin, hair
  • digraph – “ch-”
  • initial blend – “cl-”
  • compound word – everywhere
  • singular and plural nouns – chin, hair, nose, fingers, toes, ears
  • repetition of “b” – bubbles
  • medial sound “ee” – keep
  • rhyming words – toes/nose, hair/everywhere
     
• Short, repetitive sentences
• Exclamation points
• Comma on page 8

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.