Great Car Clean-out, The 6-pack Author: Margaret Mahy ISBN: 9780790321318 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: G Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Making predictions, Prior knowledge, Summarizing Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: Family Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Overview

In this humorous story, a somewhat disorganized family helps to clean out the car.  They gleefully discover lost items among the clutter.  Lively dialogue and a spirited outburst from Mom are just right for encouraging fluent, expressive reading.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies of:

• relating information to prior knowledge
• making and confirming predictions
• summarizing the main ideas

The wide variety of text features make this a particularly useful text for monitoring the students’ use of various reading strategies.

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

• the variety of initial consonant blends
• the digraphs -ph – phone; -sh – she, shook, should, shouted
• the soft “c” sound – cellphonethe “oo” sound – book, fl oor, good, look, looked, looking, shook
• the words ending in -ed – picked, started, tangled; -er – paper, under
• the -y ending – busy, messy
• the irregular past-tense verbs – meant, said, shook, swept
• the contractions – didn’t, I’m, I’ve
• the compound words – cellphone, everyone, todaythe use of upper-case letters and exclamation marks for emphasis
• the lively, colloquial dialogue
• the humorous storyline
• the characterization

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