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Concrete Jungle
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478277227
Grade Level:
2
Reading Level:
K
Strategy/Skill:
Vocabulary and word study, Making connections, Forming opinions, making judgements, Fluency, Dialogue
Genre:
General Narrative
Theme/Topic:
School and Community, Problem Solving, Neighborhood
Classification:
Fiction
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Book Summary
Maria is envious of her cousin’s school in the country because it has trees to climb and a garden, while her school is all concrete. She comes up with a plan to make her school playground colorful and exciting.
Features of the Book
- Colloquial language – awesome, concrete jungle, cool, wow
- Direct speech
- Ellipses and hyphens
- Specialized vocabulary – artist, brainstorm, creek, hardware, mural, permission, waterfall
- Third-person narrative
Word Study Opportunities
- Compound words – bookbag, brainstorm, outline, paintbrushes, waterfall
- Double vowel “oo” – good, school, shook
- Verb ending “ed” – asked, grumbled, painted
- “ly” word ending – excitedly, nervously
- Multisyllabic words – colorful, dinosaurs, grandparents, permission
- Regular and irregular plurals – bushes, butterflies, houses, ideas
Purpose
Concrete Jungle can be used to introduce and reinforce the following standards-related skills:
- relating the characters, settings, and plot to real-life situations
- reading aloud with expression
- forming and supporting opinions about a text
- exploring dialogue
- exploring word families
- writing using capital letters and punctuation appropriately
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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