Elena Makes Tortillas 6-pack Author: Clare Bowes ISBN: 9780478121827 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: A Strategy/Skill: Fluency, Main ideas, Phonemic awareness, Phonics Genre: Procedure Theme/Topic: Art and Activity, Food, Relationships Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Elena Makes Tortillas is a simple procedural book about making tortillas.

Features of the Book

• Two levels of text – body text and typical recipe language.
• Consistent placement of text.
• The high-frequency words – “Some,” “it," and “to.”
• The exclamation points on page 12.
• The use of illustrations and photographs.
• The range of simple verbs – “press,” “pat,” “cook,” and “roll.”
• The recipe on the inside back cover.

Purpose

Elena Makes Tortillas can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• practicing pointing one-to-one as each word is read
• using knowledge of letters and sounds for recognizing simple consonant-vowel-consonant words
• encouraging reading using expression to increase understanding
• recording the main points from the story

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