Don't Forget Grandma 6-pack Author: Barbara Beveridge ISBN: 9780790320359 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: E Strategy/Skill: Summarizing, Using graphic sources Genre: Play Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This simple play has a cast of four characters. Grandma is coming to dinner, and the children have a lively, entertaining time preparing for her arrival.
 

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies:

• following the steps in a process
• noting details in illustrations
• summarizing the main ideas

It introduces the students to the conventions involved with reading and performing plays.

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

• the initial consonant blends – gr, sp, pl
• the contractions – don’t, let’s, didn’t, I’ll
• the compound words – forget, Grandma
• the silent “k” in “knife”
• the use of repetition
• the use of exclamation marks
• the use of questions
• the play-writing conventions of a list of characters and the use of capital letters and colored type
• the humor in the illustrations
• the visual subplots involving a spider and the family cat

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