Crocodile Lake 6-pack Author: Margaret Mahy ISBN: 9780478120370 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: K Strategy/Skill: Analyzing themes, Fluency, Grammar and conventions Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Art and Activity, Humor, School and Community Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early-Fluent

Book Summary

When Sally O’Mally falls into a goldfish pool, the crocodile is waiting in the wings for the chance to dance in Swan Lake.

Features of the Book

• The use of italics for emphasis.
• The regular pattern on left- and right-hand pages.
• The humor in the language and illustrations.
• The rhymes – “clapped,” “snapped” and “silly,” “frilly.”
• The compound words – “grandparents” and “goldfish.”
• The frequent use of question marks and exclamation points.
• The use of alliteration – “Jason, Joanna, and "Jubilee Jones.”
• The range of regular verbs and verb endings.

Purpose

Crocodile Lake can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• recognizing the features of different genres
• identifying the themes of the book
• using punctuation cues to read instructional level
• books with expression
• writing using a variety of sentence patterns