Fish Picture, A 6-pack Author: Julie Ellis ISBN: 9780478264494 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Text structure, Using texts as models for own writing Theme/Topic: Art and Activity Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

A boy explains what he uses to make a fish picture.

Word Study

• High-frequency words: A, I, can, on, a, my
• Punctuation: periods, exclamation point, capital letters
• Phonics and phonemic awareness:
  • – P, p – Picture, paint, paper, picture, put
  • – onsets and rimes – c/an, s/and

Skills and Strategies

Reading A Fish Picture will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

• recognize simple consonant-vowel-consonant words
• emphasize left-to-right movement to reinforce directionality
• point one-to-one as each word is read to ensure an appropriate match
• innovate on the story to create own version of stories, plays, and songs

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 115
• copies of BLM, pencils, markers
• a picture of a fish, a variety of collage materials, paint, paper, scissors, glue, card, magnetic letters

For more information please see our Lesson Plan