Greedy Cat is Hungry 6-pack Author: Joy Cowley ISBN: 9780478121094 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: D Strategy/Skill: Character study, Comparing and contrasting, Fluency, Phonemic awareness Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Family, Humor, Pets Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Book Summary

Greedy Cat Is Hungry is the story of an extended family and their persistent cat.

Features of the Book

• The reappearance of known characters.
• The rhyme – “sat,” “cat,” and “mat.”
• The blends – “fr” and “gr.”
• The consistent use of quotation marks and exclamation points
• Detailed illustrations to assist meaning
• Up to four lines of print on each page
• Text in the illustrations
• Repetition – “Meow, meow, meow!” and “Purr, purr, purr.”
• The high-frequency words – “said” and “Here.”

Purpose

Greedy Cat Is Hungry can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• using knowledge of onset and rime to create new words from those in the story
• discussing the motives of specific characters
• using a range of punctuation to read expressively
• comparing several titles by the same author

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