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City Scenes
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478121063
Grade Level:
1
Reading Level:
E
Strategy/Skill:
Comprehension strategies, Descriptive language, Making connections, Phonemic awareness
Genre:
Poetry
Theme/Topic:
Neighborhood, Transportation
Classification:
Fiction
Fluency:
Early
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Book Summary
This text takes the form of a poem expressing a child’s view of the city as he and his mother walk home.
Features of the Book
- Division of text into nonrhyming introduction and conclusion, with a rhyming middle section.
- The use of an ellipsis.
- The “ing” word ending – “dashing” and "rushing.”
- Couplets with internal and end rhymes based on assonance.
- The plurals in the text are not matched by plurals in the illustrations.
- The high-frequency word “the.”
Purpose
City Scenes can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:
- hearing the individual sounds in a word
- using visual cues to monitor that reading is making sense
- practicing using poetic language to write poems
- comparing the story to events in own lives
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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