Inventors' Diary, The 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780478120684 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 2 Reading Level: M Strategy/Skill: Cause and effect, Sequencing, Text structure Genre: Diary, Journal, and Log, Graphic Text Theme/Topic: Problem Solving, School and Community, Science and Technology Classification: Nonfiction Fluency: Early-Fluent

Book Summary

The Inventors’ Diary is a recount of four children’s attempts to make a marble track.

Features of the Book

• The diary form of writing.
• The daily stages of recording, using the pattern "On Monday” and so on.
• The use of “but,” “now,” and “so” as indicators of progress in problem solving.
• The reproduced computer diary entries.
• The children’s diagrams.
• The vocabulary that communicates success – “looped,” “jumped,” “whizzed,” and “clattered.”
• The logical steps of hypothesis, experiment, design, and modification.
• The use of prepositions – “around,” “along,” “across,” “over,” and “into.”

Purpose

The Inventors’ Diary can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce and reinforce the following skills and strategies:

• discussing the organizational structure of the text
• discussing the relationship between cause and effect within the story
• recognizing the features of different genres
• writing about the steps in a procedure

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