Fantastic Dragonflies 6-pack Author: Philippa Werry ISBN: 9780790326894 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: L Strategy/Skill: Author's purpose, Comparing and contrasting, Visualizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Habitats, Natural world Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

This informational text explores the life of dragonflies, focusing on the special features that have enabled them to survive for millions of years.  It uses fun facts and vivid photography to engage the reader.  (Big idea: Scientists study plants and animals to help us understand them.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• understanding the author’s purpose
• visualizing
• comparing and contrasting

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• gaining information from photographs and captions
• using a flow chart – life cycle
• reading labeled diagrams
• 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 (dragonflies), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Being a Scientist
  • preview question on the back cover
  • headings, which support students to read in
  • sections
  • labeled diagrams
  • life cycle
  • flow chart
  • fact boxes
  • close-up photographs
  • captions
  • use of italics, bright colors, and arrows
  • green boxes that elaborate on the text
  • index
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • compound words – dragonflies, somewhere
  • plural endings – dragonflies
• Descriptive language:
  • similes like a basket, - like a dragon’s mouth, like a robot arm
  • adjectives – strong, scary
    Apostrophe – dragonfly’s

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