Friend for Me, A 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780478123463 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: A, B Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

This story is about a girl and the things she uses to care for her dog.

Building Basic Skills

• High-frequency words – A, for, Me, you, me
• Content words – Friend, bed, rug, dish, bone, collar, leash, ball, friend
• Repeated phrase – A ... for you
• Phonics and phonemic awareness – b (bed, bone, ball), f (for, friend)
• Punctuation – periods, capital letters

Skills and Strategies

A Friend for Me can be used to introduce and reinforce:

• monitoring reading and ensuring that it is making sense using meaning, structural, and visual information from the story
• reading a variety of simple high-frequency words in context
• writing labels for a specific purpose
• responding to simple questions about the story content

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 95, cut and ready for use
• copies of BLM, pencil, scissors, glue, markers
• items used for caring for a dog
• play dough
• paper, markers

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