Healthy Teeth 6-pack Author: Victoria St John ISBN: 9780790327501 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: F Strategy/Skill: Main ideas, Summarizing, Visualizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Daily routines, Health, Hygiene Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Overview

This book discusses keeping teeth clean.  The simple text, diagram, and photographs engage the reader and emphasize the importance of taking care of teeth.  (Big idea: People take care of themselves by keeping clean.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• visualizing
• summarizing the main ideas

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• using photos to get information
• using a diagram to get information
• using a glossary (boldface type)

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying
  • the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (keeping teeth healthy), which expands on pages 8 and 9 of the anchor book Taking Care of
    Yourself
  • preview question on the back cover
  • close-up photographs
  • cross section diagram
  • specialized vocabulary
  • glossary (boldface type)
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “gr-,” “st-,” “sm-,” “br-,” “cl-,” “tw-,” “dr-,” “fr-,” “sn-,” “pr-”
  • final consonant blend – “-st”
  • digraphs – “th,” “sh,” “ch”
  • contraction – let’s
  • compound word – sometimes
• Exclamation points
• Question marks

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