I Can Help 6-pack Author: Zac Summers ISBN: 9780790327143 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: A Strategy/Skill: Evaluating ideas and information, Making connections Genre: Nonfiction Theme/Topic: Family, Friends Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

In this book, children explore ways of helping other people and each other.  (Big idea: People need to help each other.)

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the following comprehension strategies:

• making connections between prior knowledge and the text
• evaluating ideas and information.

It supports the following nonfiction strategy:

• using photos to add meaning to the text.

Features of the Text

• Nonfiction features:
  • cover flap, which provides support for identifying the big ideas and anchor words
  • the topic (helping one another), which expands on pages 14 and 15 of the anchor book Discovering
    My World
  • preview question on the back cover
  • action photographs
•  Word study:
  • initial consonant blends – “br,” “fr”
  • words that begin and end with same letter – mom, dad
  • words that end in “er” – brother, sister, teacher
• Capital letters
• Simple, repetitive text
• Change in structure on page 8

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.