Crash! 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780478123296 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Fluency, Sequencing, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Art and Activity Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Two children build a tower from furniture and toys and it crashes.

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency words – The, go, up
• Content words – Crash, chairs, boxes, books, blocks, trucks, cars, bears
• Repeated phrase – The … go up
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – g (go), b (boxes, books, blocks, bears), c (cars, crash); plural “s” on content words
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters, exclamation points
• Special Feature - Large type used for emphasis on page 16

Skills and Strategies

Crash! can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• reading using expression to increase understanding
• reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
• retelling the sequence of the story using own words
• writing labels for a specific purpose

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 87, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, pencil, markers
• collection of items suitable for building a tower, for example, corks, small blocks, bottle tops
• prepared picture cards
• old magazines, scissors, glue

For more information please see our Lesson Plan