Off Goes the Hose! 6-pack Author: Joy Cowley ISBN: 9780790321066 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Making predictions Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Communication, Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This poetic text features a child playing with a hose while Grandma is hanging out the laundry to dry.  When the water gets on Grandma, she cheerfully but quickly turns off the hose.  This book captures the fun of playing with water and creates opportunities for children to discuss family relationships.

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of:

• making connections with real-life experiences
• using illustrations to make predictions
• forming and testing hypotheses, and inferring

It provides opportunities for practicing one-to-one word matching, directionality, and recognizing high-frequency words.   The rhythmic nature of the text encourages the development of fluent reading, and the illustrations provide opportunities for extending the students’ oral language.

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

• the rhythmic nature of the text, encouraging fluent reading
• the rhyming words – me, tree
• the near-rhyming words – clothes, hose
• the high-frequency words – me, on, the
• the large “W” on page 2, which draws students’ attention to the correct starting point
• the upper-case and lower-case forms of initial letters – goes, garden, Goes, Grandma; hose, Hose; on, Off; Water, window
• the use of an exclamation mark for emphasis
• the use of an ellipsis to create anticipation on page 7
• Grandma’s immediate response to getting wet

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.