Half Moon Bay 6-pack Author: Heiwari Johnson ISBN: 9780790320434 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: E Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Visualizing Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Neighborhood Classification: Fiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This poetic text, perfect for reading aloud, evokes the sights, sounds, and feelings of a summer’s day at the beach.  Text features such as alliteration, repetition, and lively verbs provide a stimulating model for writing.

Suggested Purposes

This text supports the comprehension strategies:

• making connections with real-life experiences
• visualizing

The high proportion of content words means that it may be better to share this text before using it for guided reading. Although the word count for this book is low because it is a poem, this is compensated for by the greater degree of difficulty.

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

• the variety of initial consonant blends
• the -sh digraph – shines, shout
• the -ou digraph – out, round, shout
• the -ee digraph – breeze, green
• the “I” sound for “y” – cry and fly
• the rhythmic nature of the text
• the use of alliteration, repetition, and rhyme
• the use of commas for phrasing
• the descriptive language (adjectives, lively verbs, and vivid combinations of ideas)
• the compound words “lawnmower,” “sailboats,” and “seagulls”
• the details in the illustrations (the fish and bird cloud shapes on page 5, the safety aspects, and the changing perspectives
• the title included in the sign

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