Good Idea, A 6-pack Author: Bill Nagelkerke ISBN: 9780790320175 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: H Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making predictions Genre: Folk Tale/Traditional Story Theme/Topic: Environment Classification: Fiction Fluency: Fluent

Overview

On a hot day, four African animals are inspired with good ideas about how to stay cool.  They soon realize that they need to cooperate so that they can all get what they want.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of identifying the main ideas and making and confirming predictions.  The repetition provides support for less confident readers, while the engaging vocabulary provides rich opportunities for exploring language and practicing strategies to unlock new words.

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

• the theme of cooperation
• the cumulative, repetitive text
• the high proportion of dialogue
• the content words and animal names
• the thought bubbles
• the adjectives – hot, shady, good, sweet, nice, bubbly, perfect, big
• the use of italics and exclamation marks for emphasis
• the use of commas to support phrasing
• the lively, humorous illustrations
• the infinitive and past-tense verbs – lie, lay; nibble, nibbled; drink, drank; roll, rolled
• the contractions – I’m, that’s, I’ll, you’ve
• the words with “y” as an “ee” sound – bubbly, everyone, plenty, sadly, shady, very
• the initial consonant blends – cr, dr, fr, gr, pl, spr, sw, tr
• the digraphs – sh, th

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