I Can Find My Way 6-pack Author: Amber Singh ISBN: 9780790327723 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Making connections, Summarizing, Using photos and illustrations to get information Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Neighborhood, Personal environments Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

This book shows how a girl and her mom go to school.  Using photographs and illustrations, the reader is invited to come along for the ride.  (Big idea: People need help to find their way.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
  summarizing the main ideas.

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• using photos and illustrations to get information.

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (finding your way), which expands on pages 10 and 11 of the anchor book Discovering
    My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • step-by-step action photographs
• Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “br-,” “str-”
  • final consonant blend – “-st”
  • digraph sounds – “sch,” “thr,” “th”
  • medial sounds – “ee,” “oo”
  • prepositions – across, around, down, into, out, over, past, through, up
• Exclamation points
• First-person narrative

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.