¡Demasiado grande! 6-pack Author: Materoa Tangaere ISBN: 9780790328065 Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Making connections Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This story, told by a young boy, highlights a situation that children can easily relate to – growing too big for clothes and toys. He finds comfort in a hug from Mom.

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of using illustrations to understand text, making connections with real-life experiences, and inferring. It provides opportunities to practice one-to-one word matching, directionality, recognizing high-frequency words, and
cross-checking using visual information. Look at Me is another Dragonflies emergent title with the theme of clothing.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

•  the high-frequency words – am, but, for, I, my
•  the repeated initial consonant “b” – big, bike, but
•  the initial digraphs -ch – chair; -sh – shirt, shoes
•  the initial consonant blend -sw – swing 
•  the use of the adverb “too”
•  the exclamation mark for emphasis in the title and on page 8
•  the repetitive sentence structure
•  the expressions on the characters’ faces
•  the affirmative, reassuring ending
•  the cat featured in the illustrations

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.