How Does It Move? 6-pack Author: Spike Hooper ISBN: 9780790327600 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Visualizing Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Forces and motion, Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This text describes how some vehicles, machines, and people move.  It uses simple descriptive vocabulary such as “around and around,” “back and forth,” and “side to side.”  Captions and arrows help to guide the reader.  (Big idea: Scientists look at how things move.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• visualizing.
   

It supports the following nonfiction strategies:

• getting information from photographs
• using a glossary.

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (how things move), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Being a Scientist
  • preview question on the back cover
  • arrows to show motion
  • question and answer format
  • picture glossary
     
• Word study:
  • initial blends – “sw-,” “tr-”
  • word endings –“er”– roller coaster, under, over; “or” – elevator
  • digraph – “th,” “wh”
  • opposite words – back/forth, under/over, up/down
  • prepositions – up, down, around, under, over

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.