Is It an Insect? 6-pack Author: Jane Buxton ISBN: 9780478264364 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K, 1, 2 Reading Level: C Strategy/Skill: Comprehension strategies, Information skills, Text structure, Vocabulary and word study Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Science and Technology Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

Many creatures are insects and have six legs … but watch out! Some creatures that look like insects aren’t insects at all!

Word Study

• High-frequency words: Is, It, Yes, A, No, is, has
• Punctuation: periods, exclamation points, question marks, capital letters
• Phonics and phonemic awareness:
  • – I, i – Insect, Is, It, insect, is
  • – A, a – A, an, ant
  • – onset and rime – n/ot
  • – compound words – dragonfly, ladybug, butterfly

Skills and Strategies

Reading Is It an Insect? will reinforce the following objectives and give the children the opportunity to:

• discuss new words contained within the story
• understand that the text must make sense and use cues to monitor this
• demonstrate an understanding of how print is organized and read
• select information from the story for a specific purpose

Materials

• copies of words and punctuation for this book from page 125
• copies of BLM, pencils
• a large sheet of paper, photocopies of the insects from the book, construction card, paper, scissors, glue

For more information please see our Lesson Plan