In the Garden 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780790320137 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Making predictions, Prior knowledge Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Environment, Food Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This narrative text, written in the first person, captures a young girl’s delight as she picks produce from the garden and puts it into a variety of containers. The climax to the story is predictable – and delicious!

Suggested Purposes
 

This book supports the comprehension strategies of using prior knowledge, making connections using real-life experiences, making and confirming predictions, and inferring.  It builds on the sentence structure in the Dragonflies emergent title The Picnic and provides opportunities for practicing one-to-one word matching, recognizing high-frequency words, and cross-checking the print with the illustration.

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

•  the high-frequency words – I, in, my, the
•  the plural nouns – apples, beans, flowers, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes
•  the repeated initial consonant “b” – bag, basket, beans, box, bucket
•  the initial consonant blends – -fl , -str
•  the first-person narration
•  the use of the ellipsis for anticipation
•  the repetitive sentence structure, with a change on pages 7 and 8
•  the two word changes per page
•  the visual subplot – the bee, butterfly, and dog appear on most pages

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.