Every Drop Counts 6-pack Author: Trish Puharich ISBN: 9780790327020 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Analyzing and synthesizing ideas and information, Main ideas, Summarizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Environment Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This book explores water, one of Earth’s most essential natural resources.  The simple text is displayed in a visually appealing way with highlighted facts, a diagram, and bold headings.  (Big idea: People need to use resources carefully.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• analyzing and synthesizing ideas and information
• summarizing the main ideas

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• gathering information from photographs
• using a flow diagram to understand the water cycle
• bulleted list
• using captions to explain photographs
• using a glossary (boldface type)

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (conserving water), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Helping Planet Earth
  • preview question on the back cover
  • layout shape water drop
  • bold type
  • photographs
  • flow diagram to explain water cycle
  • captions give startling facts in photos
  • close up photos
  • glossary
  • bulleted list
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “pl-,” “st-,” “fr-,” “dr-,” “cl-”
  • final consonant blend – “-st”
  • digraph sounds – “th,” “sh,” “ch,” “wh”
  • contractions – can’t, don’t, doesn’t
  • compound words – whenever, everyone, inside, without, everywhere, sometimes
• Questions to introduce the topic
• Exclamation points to add emphasis

For more information please see our Lesson Plan