Car Shopping 6-pack Author: Dot Meharry ISBN: 9780790320311 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making predictions, Summarizing, Using graphic sources Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family, Transportation Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

A family visits a car yard and looks at a variety of cars before deciding on one to buy.  Humorous touches pepper the lively illustrations.

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of using illustrations to understand text, making and confi rming predictions, and summarizing the main ideas. The repetitive text offers strong support for the reader. This book is particularly useful for observing the students’ attention to word endings and their use of initial sounds to decode content words.

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

•  the high-frequency words – a, at, I, it, like, said, we
•  the repeated initial consonants – c, l, w
•  the initial consonant blends – bl, gr
•  the digraph - sh – shopping
•  the contraction – we’ll
•  the adverb – too
•  the -ed ending – looked
•  the opposites – little and big, old and new
•  the color words
•  the use of direct speech
•  the exclamation marks on pages 7 and 8
•  the feelings of the family members shown in the illustrations
•  the text in the illustrations

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