Gardener's Maze, The 6-pack Author: Dot Meharry ISBN: 9780790321301 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: F Strategy/Skill: Monitoring for Meaning, Sequencing Genre: Procedure Theme/Topic: Environment Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Overview

In this humorous narrative, the gardener designs and builds a maze with help from a friendly hedgehog!  This text is a follow-up to the Dragonflies emergent title The Gardener and a companion text to the early title The Gardener and the Scarecrow.

Suggested Purposes
This text supports the comprehension strategies of:

• setting a purpose for reading
• following steps in a process

Variety in the sentence structures means that the students will need to attend to punctuation to develop phrasing and fluent reading.

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

• the variety of initial consonant blends
• the “all” rime – all, small, tall
• the silent “e” – made, make, maze
• the -ed verb ending
• the irregular past-tense verbs – came, got, grew, made, put, sat, saw, went
• the variety of word endings – garden, gardener, gardening, planting, plants
• the possessive apostrophe in the title
• the use of repetition for effect
• the use of commas to support phrasing
• the variety of sentence beginnings – at last …, day after day …, one wet day …, the next day …
• the element of fantasy introduced by the cartoon style illustrations and the hedgehog companion
• the humorous ending

For more information please see our Lesson Plan