Car Smart 6-pack Author: Nina Bowman ISBN: 9780790327082 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Summarizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Environment, Transportation, Travel Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This book explores the problem of air pollution caused by cars.  It describes new kinds of cars and fuels that help reduce air pollution and suggests simple, everyday ways to help to clear the air.  (Big idea: People need to stop polluting the air.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• identifying the main ideas
• summarizing the main ideas

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using photographs to get information
• using captions to get information
• using bullet points to list ideas
• using a glossary (boldface type)

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (reducing air pollution), which expands on pages 12 and 13 of the anchor book Helping Planet Earth
  • preview question on the back cover
  • specialized vocabulary
  • photographs and captions
  • bullet points
  • colorful layout
  • captions
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “cl-,” “sp-,” “tr-,” “sk-,” “sm-,” “fr-,” “sc-”
  • final consonant blend – “st”
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “ch,” “wh”
  • contractions – let’s, doesn’t, that’s, don’t
• Question marks, exclamation points, colon
   

For more information please see our Lesson Plan