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Helping Planet Earth - Early
6-pack
ISBN: 9780790326658
Grade Level:
1
Reading Level:
G
Strategy/Skill:
Asking questions, Main ideas, Making connections
Genre:
Nonfiction
Theme/Topic:
Environment, Natural world
Classification:
Nonfiction
Fluency:
Early
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Overview
This lesson builds on the Whole-Class Introduction and expands on the Helping Planet Earth unit for emergent readers. It looks at how we can help planet Earth by using resources carefully, caring for animals in danger, keeping it clean, and reusing things.
Suggested Purposes
This book supports the following comprehension strategies:
- making connections between prior knowledge and the text
- identifying the main ideas
- asking questions
It supports the following nonfiction strategies:
- using photographs that support the meaning of the text
Features of the Text
- Nonfiction features:
- introduction of environmental concepts and anchor words associated with the topic
- general information about environmental issues (pages 2 to 7) followed by four double-page
spreads about specific issues and suggested
- solutions
- personal statement that ends the book
- preview question on the back cover
- photographs with text that supports and illustrates concepts
- captions
- Word study:
- initial consonant blends – “pl-,” “cl-”
- digraph – “th”
Note: There is a lot of information in this book. You may like to cover it in two or more sessions. The first
session could cover pages 2 to 7. You might take up to four sessions to cover the following four double-page
spreads before concluding with page 16.
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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