Busy Bird 6-pack Author: Kene Martin ISBN: 9780478121803 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: A Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Using texts as models for own writing Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Habitats, Responsibility Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

A busy mother bird builds her nest, hatches her eggs, and feeds her chicks.

Features of the Book

• Clear, evenly spaced, two-word text
• Consistent placement of text
• Playful illustrations to support text
• The high-frequency words – “Some” and “A.”
• The initial “b” consonant – “busy” and “bird.”
• The sequential nature of the visual story line
• The use of “s” to denote the plural form – “twigs,” “eggs,” “heads,” and “chicks.”
• The use of the exclamation point on page 8.

Purpose

Busy Bird can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• predicting the meanings of new or unfamiliar words from the context of the story
• recognizing the relationship between letters and their sounds
• pointing one-to-one at each word to ensure an appropriate match
• writing a story that incorporates a similar model to that of the book

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