Cat and the Stars, The 6-pack Author: Jillian Sullivan ISBN: 9780790321509 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: K Strategy/Skill: Character study, Forming opinions, making judgements, Main ideas Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Environment, Family, Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This is a touching narrative about Evie and her grandmother. Evie is tired of sharing her home with her grandmother.  One day, Evie discovers that they are both interested in the stars and she finds out that her grandmother can teach her more than she realized.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of summarizing the main ideas; interpreting and analyzing characters’ feelings, relationships and actions; and making judgments.

Text Features

• the themes of cooperation and tolerance and finding things in common to share
• the relationship between the characters and the different points of view
• the narrative structure and the use of dialogue to drive it
• the indicators of time – on Saturday morning, that night, the next morning, that afternoon
• the action verbs that provide interest to the writing – banging, whispered, rubbed, shining
• the word endings – ed, ing, ly, est
• the comparative adjective – tallest
• the irregular past-tense verbs – had, said
• the contractions – don’t, I’m, didn’t, there’s, they’re, you’re
• the alliteration – clever cat, seven stars shining
• the onomatopoeia – meow, purr
• the colloquial language – OK, oh!
• the commas for phrasing
• the compound words – Grandmother, forever, downstairs, pancakes, strawberries, everything, upstairs, afternoon, sometimes, goodnight
• the blends –gr – grandmother; -sh – shiny, shadow; -wh – whispered; -br – bright, brave; -st – storm

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