La Señorita Canela es genial 6-pack Author: Joy Cowley ISBN: 9780790328652 Copyright Date: 2007 Grade Level: K Reading Level: D Strategy/Skill: Drawing conclusions, Prior knowledge Genre: Realistic Fiction Theme/Topic: School and Community Classification: Fiction Fluency: Emergent

Overview

The adventurous and good-humored Miss Pool takes her class to the fire station. The humorous situation and lively dialogue are just right for expressive reading.
 

Suggested Purposes

This book supports the comprehension strategies of using prior knowledge and drawing conclusions. It provides opportunities for expressive reading through the use of exclamation marks, repetition, direct speech, and onomatopoeia and provides opportunities to decode using visual information from the illustrations.
 

Text Features (Focus on only one or two per session.)

•  the high-frequency words – a, and, are, at, on, said, she, the, to, was, we, you
•  the repeated initial letters – c, h, l, t
•  the initial consonant blends – st, sw
•  the digraphs - ch – children; -gh – laughed; -sh, – she, shouted, swoosh; -th – that, the, their
•  the upper-case “I” for “Is” in the title
•  the rhyming words – cool, Pool
•  the plural nouns – coats, firefighters, helmets
•  the verbs ending in “ed” – laughed, looked, shouted, turned
•  the irregular past-tense verb – held
•  the use of speech marks
•  the onomatopoeia – swoosh!
•  the exclamation marks for emphasis
•  the text in the illustrations, including mirror writing

For more information please see our Lesson Plan.