Dog on Vacation 6-pack Author: Dot Meharry ISBN: 9780478264265 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Information skills, Phonemic awareness, Using texts as models for own writing Theme/Topic: Humor, Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

The family dog goes on vacation and joins in with all the family fun.

Word Study

• High-frequency words: Dog, on, Mom, and, went
• Punctuation: periods, exclamation point, capital letters
• Phonics and phonemic awareness:
  • – s – skating, surfing, swimming
  • – sh – fishing, shopping
  • – “ing” word ending – fishing, hiking, shopping, skating, surfing, swimming

Skills and Strategies

Reading Dog on Vacation will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

• hear and recall the sounds in words sequentially
• understand that the text must make sense and use cues to monitor this
• locate information
• innovate on the story to create own versions of stories, plays, and songs

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 115
• copies of BLM, pencils, markers
• card, Popsicle sticks

For more information please see our Lesson Plan