How Long Do Animals Live? 6-pack Author: Beth Braddock ISBN: 9780478123692 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 1 Reading Level: G Strategy/Skill: Fluency, Making predictions, Phonemic awareness, Using texts as models for own writing Genre: Report Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Habitats, Life Science Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early

Book Summary

How Long Do Animals Live? makes factual statements about the life spans of a variety of animals.

Features of the Book

• Two lines of text per page.
• Photographs to support the word change on each page.
• The use of a timeline.
• The use of question marks on each page.
• The word “can” to show onset and rime.
• The high frequency words – “can,” “just,” “for,” and “like.”
• The blends – “ch,” “gr,” and “wh.”

Purpose

How Long Do Animals Live? 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
• using a range of punctuation to read expressively
• predicting outcomes from the illustrations
• writing labels for a specific purpose

For more information please see our Lesson Plan