It's My Bread 6-pack Author: Diana Noonan ISBN: 9780478121896 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: K Reading Level: B Strategy/Skill: Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Text structure Genre: General Narrative Theme/Topic: Animals, Birds, and Insects, Different Views, Food, Humor Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Book Summary

While each new animal comes and claims ownership of the bread, the ants slowly and effectively carry the bread away, piece by piece.

Features of the Book

• The use of repetition.
• The use of quotation marks.
• The contraction “It’s.”
• Supportive illustrations to predict unknown words.
• Two-line text blocks requiring a return sweep.
• The use of exclamation points.
• The high-frequency words – “my,” “said,” and “the.”

Purpose

It’s My Bread can be used in a guided reading setting to introduce the following skills and strategies:

• developing an awareness of the directionality of the print on each page
• pointing one-to-one at each word to ensure an appropriate match
• using knowledge of letters and sounds for
• recognizing simple consonant-vowel-consonant words
• illustrating a story to support the meaning of the text

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